The Good Wife 4.04
An episode without Marc Warren's character and that storyline. I like it already.
Not that I've ever seen more than five or so episodes of Smallville in totem, but I recognized John Glover instantly. I bet all the other middle aged actors with receding hair lines hate him more passionately than ever. Becaue he's the former Lionel Luthor, I half expected him to try and flirt with Diane in order to distract her from their courtroom battle, but no such luck. Anyway, Diane getting angry (not just over this particular case but about all the setbacks in recent years, symbolized by the loss of the 27th floor) and declaring that this victory will be the start not just of their getting the floor back, but going after Louis Canning's firm next and then opening branches in New York and DC was awesome to behold, and Christine Baranski sold it completely, but I would like to know how this lawyery world conquering will be financed. I'm sure so would Nathan Lane's character.
Meanwhile, Eli enjoys a rare second episode in a row where he's not the comic relief. Unfortunately, this virtue in addition to the one of the absence of the abusive husband storyline is balanced by the way the writers bring back Jackie. I was unsure what to make not of Jackie's hallucinations in last season's finale, but of the way they were presented. I'm even more confused now. Because the jaunty music seems to indicate we're supposed to think them funny. And I don't. Look, yes, Jackie is a bigotted old lady, but she's also a human being, and I'm immensely sorry for people who hallucinate (always an exception: Gaius Baltar, who made it into an art form and also, Head!Six was really there). Especially if they're old and have to be afraid of losing their mind to dementia. It's one of my biggest fears and nightmares, this - losing my mind this way. And I've seen it happening to some relatives. And this episode even puts Jackie in various retirement homes surrounded by other lonely old people when her attacks happen. It's not funny, it's something horrible happening, and my only straw of hope that the writers are aware this isn't funny is that Alicia, anything but a Jackie fan, suggests to Eli he should find away to make Jackie feel useful.
Uneasy speculation: since apparantly the storyline about the intern and her faked affair with Peter isn't a one shot episode thing but a longer seasonal storyline, the fact that now twice in a row we've seen her lying blatantly and being caught out by Kalinda easily makes me wonder whether the ultimate pay off for this storyline won't be that Peter did have sex after all (if not with the lying blondie, then with someone else). Because the laws of tv. If someone is accused of something and it looks really bad for this person, then he/she is innocent and it will be proved in the last moment. If someone is accused of something and the accuser is almost immediately proven to be a lying liar who lies, several times over, then in the last reel the crushing revelation is that person-against-accusation-was-directed was indeed guilty in some way. Though maybe I'm wrong, and that's not where they're going with this thing.
Lastly: thank you, Nathan Lane, for moving Cary into Alicia's office and thus magically giving him more lines to speak. I do hope for more Alicia and Cary interaction resulting from this, as their scenes together were always good.
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Not that I've ever seen more than five or so episodes of Smallville in totem, but I recognized John Glover instantly. I bet all the other middle aged actors with receding hair lines hate him more passionately than ever. Becaue he's the former Lionel Luthor, I half expected him to try and flirt with Diane in order to distract her from their courtroom battle, but no such luck. Anyway, Diane getting angry (not just over this particular case but about all the setbacks in recent years, symbolized by the loss of the 27th floor) and declaring that this victory will be the start not just of their getting the floor back, but going after Louis Canning's firm next and then opening branches in New York and DC was awesome to behold, and Christine Baranski sold it completely, but I would like to know how this lawyery world conquering will be financed. I'm sure so would Nathan Lane's character.
Meanwhile, Eli enjoys a rare second episode in a row where he's not the comic relief. Unfortunately, this virtue in addition to the one of the absence of the abusive husband storyline is balanced by the way the writers bring back Jackie. I was unsure what to make not of Jackie's hallucinations in last season's finale, but of the way they were presented. I'm even more confused now. Because the jaunty music seems to indicate we're supposed to think them funny. And I don't. Look, yes, Jackie is a bigotted old lady, but she's also a human being, and I'm immensely sorry for people who hallucinate (always an exception: Gaius Baltar, who made it into an art form and also, Head!Six was really there). Especially if they're old and have to be afraid of losing their mind to dementia. It's one of my biggest fears and nightmares, this - losing my mind this way. And I've seen it happening to some relatives. And this episode even puts Jackie in various retirement homes surrounded by other lonely old people when her attacks happen. It's not funny, it's something horrible happening, and my only straw of hope that the writers are aware this isn't funny is that Alicia, anything but a Jackie fan, suggests to Eli he should find away to make Jackie feel useful.
Uneasy speculation: since apparantly the storyline about the intern and her faked affair with Peter isn't a one shot episode thing but a longer seasonal storyline, the fact that now twice in a row we've seen her lying blatantly and being caught out by Kalinda easily makes me wonder whether the ultimate pay off for this storyline won't be that Peter did have sex after all (if not with the lying blondie, then with someone else). Because the laws of tv. If someone is accused of something and it looks really bad for this person, then he/she is innocent and it will be proved in the last moment. If someone is accused of something and the accuser is almost immediately proven to be a lying liar who lies, several times over, then in the last reel the crushing revelation is that person-against-accusation-was-directed was indeed guilty in some way. Though maybe I'm wrong, and that's not where they're going with this thing.
Lastly: thank you, Nathan Lane, for moving Cary into Alicia's office and thus magically giving him more lines to speak. I do hope for more Alicia and Cary interaction resulting from this, as their scenes together were always good.
This entry was originally posted at http://selenak.dreamwidth.org/831814.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.