The Good Wife,’ Season 4, Episode 8 Recap
Keep doing you, “Good Wife.” I like where you’re going.
- CBS
- J’ACCUSE!
This has been another transitional season for “The Good Wife,” but despite some starts and stops it really has remained a great show. “Here Comes the Judge” again married the Case of the Week closely with Lockhart Gardner, to its benefit. And though there were some lagging sidebar plots (hmmm who could that be ... Nick maybe? You got it!), overall it was a pretty engaging episode that raised some interesting questions.
The main one for me is: how are we supposed to feel about the firm these days and their ruthless pursuit of their own interests? I really like Diane and I’m OK with Will, but the way they have plotted against and alienated Hayden in the past and dragged Judge Creary in this episode (and they way they did it) just feels slimy. I would be surprised if viewers disagreed with Judge Dunaway’s final thoughts on the matter: yes, Lockhart Gardner proved their point, but at what moral and ethical cost?
I was slightly disappointed, speaking of the Case of the Week that wasn’t, that there wasn’t more time spent on the Andrea Sneiderman-inspired case (I mean that was clearly the “ripped from the headlines” story it was cobbled from, right?) It was certainly riveting in real life, and I think that the show could have done more with it. Still, the direction things ended up going was something most legal shows don’t focus on: the judges. “The Good Wife” has always given them a lot of consideration, from their quirks and biases to their friendship with attorneys that lead more or less to Will’s disbarment.