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The Good Wife, 1x01 - 1x17
*finishes marathoning The Good Wife*
*explodes from squee*
This show is AWESOME. I figured it would be, I just like saving episodes up for a nice little wallow sometimes.
-Julianna Margulies, yay! She's terrific in this. I like that Alicia is smart and capable and that other people recognize that. I like that even though the show is about her recovering from a terrible humiliation, she's not a victimized, pitiable character. I like that she doesn't spend large amounts of time feeling guilty for not being there for her kids or for enjoying her work.
-I had absorbed the fact that there was a character named Kalinda whom people really liked, but I was sort of picturing her as another lawyer. Possibly the stereotypical non-white best friend of the protagonist who gets the snappy dialogue but the lousy storylines. But no! Instead she's like Veronica Mars' older, ass-kicking sister, who does all the coolest stuff and is at the heart of all the murkiest mysteries. I LOVE her.
-Will and Alicia and Peter, oh my. I love how fascinating this whole dynamic is. Because you can see, even with him being kind of a slimeball, why Alicia and Peter fell in love and stayed together for so long, and why she didn't just divorce him, and that Peter is both a cheating slimeball and a guy who loves his wife and gets jealous and doesn't want to lose her. But on the flip side, Will and Alicia do make a cute couple, and he's presumably had a thing for her since law school and while he's not a saint, he's also not a lying, cheating power-tripping jerk. And he's a Cubs fan. And also, Josh Charles. So I'm rooting for them to work it out eventually, but in the meantime, the whole messy storm of emotional entanglements is very compelling to watch.
-A weekly legal drama where you win all your cases and your clients are always innocent and all cases get decided in the space of a few weeks or a few days - that's even more of a fantasy than the average cop or doctor show. But, eh. *handwaves*
-I must confess to having loathed Logan on Gilmore Girls pretty much from beginning to end, but I got to liking Cary pretty quickly. It works better to have Alicia competing with someone who's sympathetic than to have him be a cartoon villain. And Cary on drugs was hilarious.
-The whole extended cast of the show is great (Joe Morton! Alan Cumming!), and I love that there are so many interesting relationships beyond the obvious familial/romantic ones. Diane and Will, Kalinda and Diane, Kalinda and Cary, Kalinda and Peter, (Kalinda and everybody...), Alicia and Cary, Alicia and Jackie - all these layers of friendship and history and competition that make it feel like a real, three-dimensional world.
So: yay, new show! Now I just need to figure out when it actually airs on tv.
Next up: the last two episodes of Castle!
*explodes from squee*
This show is AWESOME. I figured it would be, I just like saving episodes up for a nice little wallow sometimes.
-Julianna Margulies, yay! She's terrific in this. I like that Alicia is smart and capable and that other people recognize that. I like that even though the show is about her recovering from a terrible humiliation, she's not a victimized, pitiable character. I like that she doesn't spend large amounts of time feeling guilty for not being there for her kids or for enjoying her work.
-I had absorbed the fact that there was a character named Kalinda whom people really liked, but I was sort of picturing her as another lawyer. Possibly the stereotypical non-white best friend of the protagonist who gets the snappy dialogue but the lousy storylines. But no! Instead she's like Veronica Mars' older, ass-kicking sister, who does all the coolest stuff and is at the heart of all the murkiest mysteries. I LOVE her.
-Will and Alicia and Peter, oh my. I love how fascinating this whole dynamic is. Because you can see, even with him being kind of a slimeball, why Alicia and Peter fell in love and stayed together for so long, and why she didn't just divorce him, and that Peter is both a cheating slimeball and a guy who loves his wife and gets jealous and doesn't want to lose her. But on the flip side, Will and Alicia do make a cute couple, and he's presumably had a thing for her since law school and while he's not a saint, he's also not a lying, cheating power-tripping jerk. And he's a Cubs fan. And also, Josh Charles. So I'm rooting for them to work it out eventually, but in the meantime, the whole messy storm of emotional entanglements is very compelling to watch.
-A weekly legal drama where you win all your cases and your clients are always innocent and all cases get decided in the space of a few weeks or a few days - that's even more of a fantasy than the average cop or doctor show. But, eh. *handwaves*
-I must confess to having loathed Logan on Gilmore Girls pretty much from beginning to end, but I got to liking Cary pretty quickly. It works better to have Alicia competing with someone who's sympathetic than to have him be a cartoon villain. And Cary on drugs was hilarious.
-The whole extended cast of the show is great (Joe Morton! Alan Cumming!), and I love that there are so many interesting relationships beyond the obvious familial/romantic ones. Diane and Will, Kalinda and Diane, Kalinda and Cary, Kalinda and Peter, (Kalinda and everybody...), Alicia and Cary, Alicia and Jackie - all these layers of friendship and history and competition that make it feel like a real, three-dimensional world.
So: yay, new show! Now I just need to figure out when it actually airs on tv.
Next up: the last two episodes of Castle!