The Good Wife’ Season 4, Episode 6 Recap

Almost everyone was geared up for some kind of warfare this week, on the legal, emotional and political fronts.

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“Guest stars galore!” they said. And so it was - the entire episode was so jammed-packed with guest stars that there was even a completely unnecessary appearance by Kristin Chenowith (even though it’s good to see her) squeezed in just because they could. “We’re overflowing with stars!”

I cringe at guest star appearances in almost every case on any show, because the desperation for ratings reeks. But “The Good Wife,” despite having too many characters to know what to do with in the first place, actually finds nice little arcs for them that aren’t so terribly self-aware. Still, because of the fact that the cast has expanded exponentially, even those guest stars got, at best, only a few moments on screen (Nathan Lane’s Hayden was reduced to saying “this is crap! It’s all crap!” twice, followed by a silent scene of him reading, apparently, Steve Jobs’ biography).

On the plus side, like last week, “The Art of War” (which is what I thought it would turn out Hayden was reading) had a pretty straight-forward Case of the Week (an incredibly straight-forward one, by “Good Wife” standards) that Lockhart Gardner actually lost, but was engaging to watch thanks to a very well-cast guest star in Amanda Peet.

Almost everyone was geared up for some kind of warfare this week, on the legal, emotional and political fronts.