Due to CBS’s tendency to have
sports games that delay their programming on Sunday nights, I have this old
episode recorded on VHS. Well, I was finally able to watch it on 3-8-2015.
Hopefully, they’ll be no other ones to record for a while, but that could wind
up happening… Anyways, this is the first in an installment of old VHS episodes
I need to get caught up on. Don’t worry: I’ll get to the season finale at the
end of this. You see, for me, the rest of the season (and this episode from
before the beginning of my blog posts but unseen until I had started this blog,
if that makes sense) is on VHS tapes for me to watch until I start blogging
about the next Good Wife season. So enjoy these next three posts before the
next season starts.
We start with an empty
courtroom that Cary looks at. This is before his big trial. I know a lot of
what’s going to happen, but not much. I was actually supposed to watch the last
forty minutes (since this episode aired at a forty minute delay, in my region
at least), but that didn’t end up happening. If you ever see the font change to
this during a post than that will
mean that I’ve already seen part of the episode an am blogging about the first
part of it later. We’ll see how often that winds up happening. Why it
will happen will be explained in a later post should it ever happen. Anyways,
Diane and Alicia talk about Cary’s options heading into the trial. We also get
to Peter’s strange mother again. Alicia wrote a joke note that contained a
threat that wound up being delivered to Grace’s teacher and is considered a
threat. Also, the judge is preoccupied with his own personal life to give any
real credit to the trial at hand, in the first act of the episode at least.
Since this episode is before Thanksgiving, there are also Christmas commercials
for me to add to a list that I’ll post in www.adamdeckertv.blogspot.com (my
TV blog) as soon as I can finish counting them, which will be fairly soon as
I’m getting caught up on VHS tapes at the moment.
In the second act, the
prosecutor might be in cahoots with someone, but I can’t tell who. We also go
more into the note that seems to be hurting Alicia’s campaign. As usual, it is
hard to tell exactly what is happening for sure.
In the third act, Kalinda was
called to the stand by the prosecutor in the case. There is also something
going on with juror eleven. He has hearing problems sometimes which affect the
trial. The scene before he is dismissed from the jury is a bit humorous,
although not as much as they were going for.
In the fourth act, we go more
to the threatening note which was not found as funny by Eli as she was trying
to understand. They seem to be setting up Alicia with the new character, which
I think is her campaign manager. The main problem with having a love interest
for Alicia is that she’s married and any other relationship would be an affair.
We also have Kalinda meeting the black kid that I saw in future episodes.
(Sorry if calling him a black kid is considered racist. I don’t think it is.
I’m not racist, but I find it hard to remember certain names especially when
they don’t mention what those names are a lot so I mention something easily
identifiable about them. Plus, a lot of black comics make fun of white people a
lot, which they don’t get in trouble for stereotyping us. I’m white, by the
way. And black people are normally right when they complain about us.)
In the fifth act, a witness
for the defense doesn’t do what the defense wants him to do. The scene gets
very emotional for Cary as he doesn’t really know what to do regarding the
charge he’s under. The note that Alicia wrote was resolved in a possibly
illegal way. In the end, regarding Cary, he is pretty much forced to take the
plea deal as he is left with no other options at the moment. But things will
actually turn out well for him in the future. Not much else to say outside of
this paragraph, so I might as well end things here. This is Adam Decker,
signing off.
