The Good Fight 1.03
Good episode, which addressed one of my few concerns immediately.
To wit: this time around, not only do we get to know Barbara and Adrian (the two senior name partners at Diane's new law firm) better and they get as much dialogue in the episode as the white characters, but the law firm's investigator (black, male) shows up and immediately establishes a nice repartee with Marisa, which presumably means we'll also see a lot of him.
Incidentally, I meant to ask this before, but: the Julius who shows up here and in the pilot is presumably the same Julius who used to work for L & G back in The Good Wife day? Anyway, the wholel "who voted for Trump?" bit at the office managed to be both comic relief, pointed commetary and a glimpse at office dynamics.
The main case of the week, otoh, was anything but funny and very timely as well. Client-wise, you can't get more sympathetic than a surgeon who helps out in Syria via Skype and gets locked up as a terrorist helper for it, so I was glad Diane and Lucca managed to save the day, but the gut wrenching ending felt entirely true, too - the reveal that the army had been playing for time so they could locate the brother and kill & destroy not only him but everyone around him, including the Syrian medic, the translator and the patient. Which, btw, would have happened regardless of who was President. Would definitely have happened under Hillary. Did happen all the time under Obama. The fatal US love affair with so called clean air strikes and drones has been going on since Bush I, methinks.
Maia in her own subplot, reeling from the cliffhanger relevation that her mother is having an affair with dastardly Uncle Jacks, has now enlisted in Cause Prove Dad Innocent, and while the computer shenanigans were fun, I doubt this will end well for her. Not least because I suspect Dastardly Uncle Jacks has a point about her father, not that he, D.U.J., isn't guilty as sin.
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To wit: this time around, not only do we get to know Barbara and Adrian (the two senior name partners at Diane's new law firm) better and they get as much dialogue in the episode as the white characters, but the law firm's investigator (black, male) shows up and immediately establishes a nice repartee with Marisa, which presumably means we'll also see a lot of him.
Incidentally, I meant to ask this before, but: the Julius who shows up here and in the pilot is presumably the same Julius who used to work for L & G back in The Good Wife day? Anyway, the wholel "who voted for Trump?" bit at the office managed to be both comic relief, pointed commetary and a glimpse at office dynamics.
The main case of the week, otoh, was anything but funny and very timely as well. Client-wise, you can't get more sympathetic than a surgeon who helps out in Syria via Skype and gets locked up as a terrorist helper for it, so I was glad Diane and Lucca managed to save the day, but the gut wrenching ending felt entirely true, too - the reveal that the army had been playing for time so they could locate the brother and kill & destroy not only him but everyone around him, including the Syrian medic, the translator and the patient. Which, btw, would have happened regardless of who was President. Would definitely have happened under Hillary. Did happen all the time under Obama. The fatal US love affair with so called clean air strikes and drones has been going on since Bush I, methinks.
Maia in her own subplot, reeling from the cliffhanger relevation that her mother is having an affair with dastardly Uncle Jacks, has now enlisted in Cause Prove Dad Innocent, and while the computer shenanigans were fun, I doubt this will end well for her. Not least because I suspect Dastardly Uncle Jacks has a point about her father, not that he, D.U.J., isn't guilty as sin.
This entry was originally posted at http://selenak.dreamwidth.org/1217985.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.