Category: The Good Wife
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Chitchat: Checking in with The Good Wife
I talk television with a lot of people. Friends, family, other critics on Twitter, vagrants on the street. I just love talking about TV. Because I don’t have the time and resources to do a podcast like I used to in college, I’m going to sort of replicate that experience in textual form in a…
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TV Surveillance Podcast Episode 24 — The Best Television (and Voice Impressions) of 2011
It is that time again folks! The end of the year is upon us and that means it is time to look back on the highs, lows and WTFs in television from the past 12 months. There is a lot to reflect on in regard to television 2011. Charlie Sheen went crazy. Well, crazier. Comedy…
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Review: The Good Wife, “What Went Wrong”
I haven’t written much about The Good Wife’s third season. In fact, I’m pretty sure I haven’t done a single post on this season. My good buddy Noel Kirkpatrick and I deconstructed the first three or four episodes way back in the early part of the fall on the podcast, but with so much going…
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TV Surveillance Podcast Episode 12 — Thematic Analysis of Social Decorum and Legal Procedures 300
In this episode of the podcast, my buddy Noel Kirkpatrick from Monsters of Television joins me for a lengthy discussion of the opening four episodes of Community and The Good Wife‘s respective third seasons. Remember, you can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, if you’d like.
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Season Finale — The Good Wife, “Closing Arguments”
After a season in which The Good Wife expanded its narrative scope dramatically (so much so, it’s been rightfully discussed as the broadcast follow-up to The Wire), sometimes to its own detriment (let’s just pretend that Hugo Chavez episode didn’t happen, shall we?), it was kind of nice that the season finale dials things back and…
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Surveillance Spring Stumping: Why CBS should renew The Good Wife
It’s May, which means we’re very close to the network upfronts. Choices about which series live and which series die are probably being made right now by all the major networks. This of course means it’s time for fans and critics to start stumping for their favorite series stuck on the bubble between cancellation and…
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The Good Wife, “Wrongful Termination”
I couldn’t really bring myself to write about last week’s episode of The Good Wife. Since I watched the first 33 or so episodes in a week-long binge, I can’t really be sure, but I’m mostly confident in making a claim for that to be the worst episode of the series. This is such a…
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The Good Wife, “Ham Sandwich”
Holy crap that was a fantastic episode of The Good Wife. “Ham Sandwich” had all the makings of a legitimate finale, but also found a way to serve as a catalyst for what will surely be a wonderful string of final episodes. This episode was full of great moments, shocking twists and some intriguing little…
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The Good Wife, “The Silver Bullet”
There are many great things about The Good Wife. We all know this. But probably the thing I love most about the series is how easily it transitions from story to story and from character to character with little problem. With such a fine writing staff and a great stable of performers, the series can…
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The Good Wife, “Real Deal”
Just a disclaimer: I’m a total sucker for Michael J. Fox. My favorite movie of all-time is Back To The Future and I’ve probably seen nearly all of MJF’s films and even watched a good amount of Spin City because I just love the guy. I say this because I was fully charmed by “Real…
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The Good Wife, “Silly Season”
When you’re working with such a deep cast of series regulars and fantastic guest stars, it’s fairly easy to step away from your lead character to tell a great story about someone else and not lose a step. The Good Wife is one of those kind of series and last night’s “Silly Season” is one…
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The Good Wife, “Two Courts”
When you binge on a full series in a very short timespan, a few things can happen. On one hand, seeing so many episodes in such a short time makes all the problems become much more obvious than they would be if there was weeks, months or even years between them. But on the other…
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The Good Wife, “Breaking Up”
This is my first post on The Good Wife. I’ve heard all the praise since about this time last year and I knew that it was surely a good, even great television program. But you know, time and stuff. I unfortunately can’t watch everything all the time, but The Good Wife was at the top…
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