The Good Wife was a show designed to support The Obama Administration and their policies.

I love the parallels between Diane and Alicia’s stories. It starts off with a slap, they both are in some way involved with a scandal which isn’t their own fault and nobody will hire them. One firm takes a chance and they both have to rebuild their careers. They both also have trouble in their marriage, due to their partners infidelity. The first season just seemed really well thought out it’s so good

I'm all for a bit of product placement if it's done tastefully, but holy hell - Alicia Florick playing Halo? Seriously? Using a PlayStation controller?

I hope they (Microsoft) paid well, although I can't imagine the audience crossover was particularly profitable.

Saw this in my feed. Thought it might be fun to do it for TGW! The last season and a half aren’t my favorites, but out of the seasons that are, I’m going to go with the one with Kalinda’s husband and the ice cream cone. I can’t take the cringe along with how obnoxious the character is!

Elsbeth in “To the Bone”

Holy shit. Thought it was an unusually weak episode until......... I think that might be among the most blindsided I've ever been by a TV show.

Love this! Laughed so hard! His storylines are always good.

Does anyone else find it weird that in season 7 Diane talks about how she is a founding partner of the firm to the new associates and about the firms long history. Please someone tell me if I’m mistaken but Diana joined Florrick Agos, created by Cary and Alicia not the other way around. Like the firm is not the same as Lockhart Gardner and I think it really discredits all the work Alicia and Cary did. Have I misunderstood something?

No hate, he's an attractive guy and a great actor, but he looks like a bird. especially when he purses his lips when serious. I need to express this here to get it off my chest so I stop thinking it so loudly every time I see him on screen. He looks peckish, okay? Please someone understand me.

Thank you.

This is my first time watching TGW, and up until mid season 6, I was binging this show, like 2-3 episodes a day, loving every bit.

And now, this plot of her SA run, feels so difficult to get through. Why did they make her enter the race, only for her to not even stay as the new State Attorney?? Alicia never looks like she actually wants to do it, heck, I’d also vote for Prady cause he feels like he’s actually in it. This entire plot felt like Eli’s side quest just cause he was bored
In the scenes, where she helped her firm in cases was so good and that really makes you feel like she’s a through and through lawyer and that’s the only thing she is passionate about.

I miss the other characters so much through this, miss the actual law firm characters. Heck!! I’d rather also see some Peter in the mix LOL

Again, this is my POV but I’d love to hear more thoughts? Cause I’m at a point where I want to stop watching it cause it’s just not interesting anymore

The actor who plays Alecia just lacks chemistry with the other cast. It's like there's all these vital plotline-her supposedly close/complicated relationship with Kalinda, her apparent heart wrenching love affair with will, and then her devotion to her crooked husband.

If will and her never explicitly stated that they had romantic / sexual tension I never would have placed it.

I think she makes the most sense with her husband, not because they have the most chemistry but I understand their connection as being face-fronted politically enforced, it's like a business relationship, and they live practically as roommates for the entire show.

Like if they didn't place her next to Kalinda / will I wouldn't believe they were even friends, and when they are together there's just such a disconnect.

Am I alone in this feeling ? The vibes are just off.

Eli always with the best lines..

share me some of your favourites

This has one of my favourite scenes from the entire show, a conversation between Ruth and Eli.

“You missed the most fundamental thing about the man” “Peter Florrick is not number one. She is”

Peter fumbled so hard by not letting Eli be his campaign manager. This is just genuinely such a good scene and a really full circle moment for the series. In Saint Alicia we trust

Rewatching onto season 5 now. I could see Jackie a deeply suppressed, tragic woman.

She’s upper-(middle)class, sharp, well educated, and knows how to play political chess. If she’d been born 30 years later, she probably would’ve been more like Alicia, having accomplished something of her own. But because of her generation or other reasons, the only way she ever knew how to touch power was through men, her cheating husband, then Peter.

I used to just see her as the ultimate toxic "boy mom," and a lonely elderly, but it goes deeper than that. Her involvement in Peter’s life isn't just motherly devotion. I think it’s borderline morbid how enmeshed she is. In her mind, sharing Peter’s power is her rightful payout. It's the ultimate prize for having been the dutiful "good wife" to her husband and the loyal "good mother" who groomed the golden boy. Peter’s political office is literally her dividend on a lifetime investment.

That’s why she’s obsessed with the "petty" stuff. Fighting Alicia over parenting, micromanaging Peter's inauguration, dying on a hill over decorating his gubernatorial office... those aren't just superficial things to her. That domestic sphere is literally the only territory she was ever allowed to run.
Which brings me to why Alicia threatens her so much. As OG goodwife, Jackie wanted Alicia to be just like her, to stand by the cheating husband, swallow the pride, and pour everything into his career. But Alicia goes out and actually builds her own real-world power. She's in the courtroom, she's starting her own firm, and she doesn't need Peter to have status. Jackie is terrified Alicia will ruin Peter's career, but deep down, I think she’s insanely jealous that Alicia got to live a life with actual agency.
The moment that really hit me was the Rachel storyline in Season 5.

Decades ago, Rachel was a 25-year-old underling who had an affair with Jackie’s husband. Jackie swallowed the humiliation and stayed.

Then decades later, she finds out Rachel went to law school, built an incredible legal career, and is about to be appointed to the Illinois Supreme Court bench, a position of power higher than Jackie’s late husband ever had!

Jackie didn't sabotage Rachel just out of old romantic jealousy. Her head exploded because Rachel’s success completely shattered Jackie's worldview. If the woman who "broke the rules" gets to have real institutional authority and autonomy, then what the hell did Jackie waste her entire life suffering for?

She had to stop Rachel, because Rachel existing as a Supreme Court judge cproved that Jackie's lifelong sacrifice was a total trap.

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New evidence found s05e22
Jackie stayed in Peters office having his staff making her tea (and complained it’s too hot).
Later, Eli explained the smell to Peter: She likes to sit at your desk when you’re not here. Clearly Jackie enjoys and craves the power but could only indulge in her illusion via her son’s absence

Always pushing for firm expansion. Always taking high risks. Gambling on everything. (Yet the only thing too serious to roll the dice on is his feelings for Alicia… )

Did the show reveal if he really killed that woman or not?