I marathoned all 7 seasons of the good wife. I downloaded it on April 28th and finished it today, so it took me 14 days to get through about 150 hours of tv or roughly 50% of all my time over the last two weeks.
I marathoned all 7 seasons of the good wife. I downloaded it on April 28th and finished it today...
are you one of them NEETS?
I remember the daughter being annoying dumb.
Does this have cheating and cuckoldry?
no I'm actually highly skilled in my field. Well, I'm in a highly skilled field anyway. my skills are like, barely above average. Which is enough!
Haven't seen it. Is she an actual good wife?
Yeah, it's the whole premise. The main character is supposed to be an analogue for Hillary Clinton.
It took me a while to "get it", but the point of the ending was that she defends her family no matter what. She basically ends up betraying everybody except for her husband and children. In the finale, her daughter says that she instead of going to college, she's going to join her father's political team and help him out of his latest sex scandal. The Good Wife doesn't want to see her daughter dragged down by Bill Clinton like she was, and so she destroys someone else's life and business to protect Bill Clinton from scandal, all to keep her daughter from ending up like her mother.
So yeah, she was a pretty good wife, it was just confusing what the writers were going for at times. Were they trying to tell me Loyalty was bad? These females as a villain protagonist are always way harder to get a bead on than Walter White. And she was constantly taking pro bono cases to help the marginalized. That was a good thing.
you didn't understand the show. But whatever. I spent half the time trying to figure out if the daughter in this show was the same girl that played Meadow in the Sopranos.
why tho? and did you raise your ask?
I read all the episode summaries on Chumhum
The episode where the reddit moderators appeared was pretty hilarious.
I ask the court to call me Mr. Feet
no. no one do that.
Holy shit. The writers thought that the daughter asking questions non stop = characterization.
black guy about to be executed for raping and killing two little black girls
get roped into helping try and get a delay or whatever, do everything they can for him, even manage to bring his mom, brother, and childhood priest to see him
he was faking any kind of remorse and just using them to get them to do that so he could tell off/mock his family and priest one final time before he died
guy is accused of killing his wife and three other people (two women and a man) to cover it up
he kills himself because it looks hopeless
another murder happens, prosecutor (or whatever) panics and blames a copycat
turns out the accused was innocent and the initial theory that there was a serial killer on the loose was right despite the male victim throwing it off (he was shot by accident, the killer was aiming for another woman instead)
Was it kino?
Sex with Kalinda.
that episode where the jurors rip the biased prosecutor apart for her bullshit
why did you bring in his wife and ask him who she has sex with? What did that have to do with anything?
It's one of the best shows ever made, I rewatch it every few years. What did you think about the ending?
My professor mentor was really into this show. After I graduated and had a manic episode, I messaged her that I was in love with her. She was married with kids.
Were they trying to tell me Loyalty was bad?
They were trying to show how corruption happens. It's not one big decision to be evil, just a lot of small, sometimes impossible decisions over many years. Alicia becomes very comfortable living a lie over time and lying herself. She starts off as a victim, and ends as a victimiser.
Season 1 has a young beardless Pedro Pascal. Unfortunate.
Show went tonshit after the guy got killed. Also her and pajeet chick real life relationships were extremely shitty and it felt.
Jeet actress being jealous of a succesful hispanic woman, very common.
yeah I saw someone else point out that they never interacted for three seasons straight?
whatever. I never noticed. I guess I didn't care that much.
Why wouldn't they just fire the non-main character?
Honestly the big manipulation at the end was nothing new. These lawyers were treating eachother pretty terribly the whole time. They were always scheming and playing their weird game of thrones/musical chairs with who's name gets to be on the wall.
Diane and the rest were ruthless lawyer backstabbers from the beginning and eventually Alicia learns to be a ruthless backstabber too? What did you expect? I would have quit that firm in the first month and never looked backwards.
But the finale's behaviour was no different to their day-to-day behaviour. Maybe alicia should have femdommed diane and make her watch while she fucks kurt inside his cool gun range thing dressed as Sarah Palin. Then you might have gotten the point across that she was evil, or something.
no one knows
Then you might have gotten the point across that she was evil,
But I don't think she's fully evil. She still does good things as well. She just became exactly like Peter, a politician with some good intentions that never really come to fruition because they keep playing games and acting on their worst impulses. but yeah, the message of the show should be: politicians and laywers, not even once.
Worth it? I only know about it because my friend introduced me to Suits last year and somewhere I online I saw a claim that it wasn't as good as The Good Wife but I began to find the episodic stuff in s1 a bit boring and tedious
Are you watching the spinoff/sequel? You'll have another six seasons to get through.
S1 is a bit mediocre because it is too episodic, but nearing the end the real plot starts to kick in. Then the show gets better and better with season 5 being the purest kino, and after it's a little less great but still good. What's great about the show is that while it is episodic, the overarching plot is always there, and things that characters do in season 1 and 2 come back to haunt them years later. It's really well done.
I thought this was better than Suits but you may have different sensibilities than me. I was mostly there for the procedural stuff and spent a lot of time fastforwarding any parts that weren't in a courtroom. It's how I got through it so fast.
The drama parts were just soap opera stuff and didn't really matter. The plotline went something like: Join Law Firm> Leave Law Firm> Go Back to Law Firm>Leave Law Firm>Merge with Law Firm> Leave Law Firm>Remerge with law Firm>run for public office>go back to law firm> do another start up law firm>destroy law firm.
I'm not watching the Diane Lockhart show, but I will watch the quirky redheaded lawyer law show. Diane's necklaces were too weird and offputting, they looked like chains.
That one was weird. I didn't really get it, until I read that it was meant to be a farce rather than a drama. The cartoon intervals were too cringe for me though.
I was mostly there for the procedural stuff
Favorite judge? For me, it's Cuesta, but that uptight female army colonel is a close second.
but I will watch the quirky redheaded lawyer law show
That show is pretty decent, but a bit dumbed down compared to TGW.
I couldn't do it by names so if there's ones that had no photos I don't remember them.
yeah I just remembered one. The "in your opinion" judge didn't get a photo in the list of judges. Neither did Happy Gilmore.
Oh yeah he was great too. That actor will always be 'Jimmy James, the man so nice they named him twice' from Newsradio to me.
that episode Eli Gold finds out he got cucked by a Bin Laden
I thought this was better than Suits but you may have different sensibilities than me. I was mostly there for the procedural stuff and spent a lot of time fastforwarding any parts that weren't in a courtroom. It's how I got through it so fast.
I will give The Good Wife another shot then. For Suits, I did enjoy it but the decline in writing quality was obvious. Louis became a total caricature vs. how he was in season 1, I began speeding through scenes of Mike and Rachel always arguing and then reconciling, lots of plot lines that weren't really that good but it was a comfy watch so I didn't care that much. I can't really think of anything that topped Louis and his explosive rage after he found out about Mike's secret and confronted "I'M DONNA!" and Jessica. For The Good Wife I am hoping Welliver's character is a big character going forward - he's always been a kino machine. Even his name is based.
Oh also I'm a Bong so I got a kick out of seeing how they presented the trio of British lawyers - Varys, British Harvey doing his best James Bond LARP, and Elliot from BB. Louis and Elliot's interactions were such that if seen out of context and no knowledge of Louis Litt being straight, you would see homoerotic tension in their scenes together and their arc be becoming gay lovers.
yeah no one tells you this but you can fast forward through any parts of a tv show that suck. You don't have to watch the whole thing. It works for movies too.
The only times I didn't was when I was playing video games at the same time and it was too annoying to put the controller down and pick up the remote any time it got boring. Then I watched complete episodes.