Tag: The Good Wife
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2010-2011 season wrap: The top 10 series of the season
The 2010-2011 television series officially ended last week. Obviously, there will be a lot of great television coming in the summer months ahead and it is sort of silly to stick to the ancient constructs of the broadcast television season (which ran from September 20, 2010 to May 25, 2011 this season), but I’ve never…
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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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Stuck in the middle — The failure of the complex, restrained television series
Let’s play pretend for a moment (since I planned on writing this column had this thing we’re pretending about actually happened), if you don’t mind. Let us assume for the sake of argument that AMC’s fantastic new drama series The Killing didn’t open to nearly 3 million viewers, which is a sizable success for the…
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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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Aimless Prognosticating: Predicting the Television Golden Globe Awards: Series Categories
I feel like I probably know the answer to the primary question of this post. We all know that the Golden Globe Awards are a crock, especially when in reference to television. I originally wanted to write a post discussing whether or not it was worthwhile to even predict the outcome of the Golden Globe…
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Aimless Prognosticating: Predicting the Television Golden Globe Awards, Lead Categories
I feel like I probably know the answer to the primary question of this post. We all know that the Golden Globe Awards are a crock, especially when in reference to television. I originally wanted to write a post discussing whether or not it was worthwhile to even predict the outcome of the Golden Globe…
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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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Aimless Prognosticating: Predicting the Television Golden Globe Awards, Supporting Categories
Just a note: I’m going to be busy this weekend, so I wanted to go ahead these taken care of here in the middle of the week. I feel like I probably know the answer to the primary question of this post. We all know that the Golden Globe Awards are a crock, especially when…
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TV Surveillance’s Best of 2010: The Best (and Worst) of the Rest
2010 has been a fantastic year for television. This year brought us a slew of great new programs and if we include the second halves of all the series that debuted in the fall of 2009 (which I am for these features), we have probably just experienced the best run of newbies since 2004. While…
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