November Twenty-Second 2015’s Episode

You may or may not know about my OCD habits regarding which blog gets updated when. (The best place to read more information about this is my Survivor blog.) The point is, I will now be publishing this blog on Saturdays now instead of Fridays since it was pushed back due to another blog of mine being published yesterday. It kind of relates to tape delay in a way when you think about it. I don't update multiple blogs in a single day so that is why you will see this blog delayed for now. If anything ever changes again, I'll be sure to publish the change and the reason for it at the beginning of the next blog post.

Something I’ve been wondering is if this show will disappear for a while like it did last season. There was a while that they started the final season of the Mentalist in place of this show. That was before they moved it to air in the place of Survivor during its winter hiatus. Could it happen again? It’s possible. But I don’t know if it will. Meanwhile, it was stupid that they didn’t air it during February at all. They didn’t even do reruns that month.

I might as well tell you about the progress of my aunt and uncle’s former movies that I’m watching. I was able to see the Pelican Brief. I replaced it with Pleasantville. Any other movie watching that I did was basically irrelevant to the movies that they gave me so I might as well get to the next paragraph.

Today’s episode is brought to you by seven minute or no delay. We begin with secret videos that parallel the Planned Parenthood videos. They had to air an advisory about this episode. You know, when Nightline talked about them one time, they seemed biased towards Planned Parenthood. I have general mixed feelings about the group. If they were only about birth control, then they probably wouldn’t nearly be as controversial as they are. Anyways, I can’t tell if Jason is two timing Alicia by working with Diane or not. I haven’t seen last week’s episode yet, although I probably will have by the time this is posted. He’s working with both companies, it seems at least. Anyways, am I the only one wondering what happened to Alicia’s son? We never see him on the show anymore. Has he left the show? They better not be keeping him in the main cast even though he isn’t appearing. But I can’t remember the actor’s name anyways. There is more on the abortion case throughout the episode.

Act two has Diane’s firm trying to get a video submitted into evidence to help their client. The scene in the courtroom is a bit funny as the people who are both for and against abortion are constantly being ushered into and out of the courtroom. Meanwhile, Grace uses various computers that they all have for some odd reason to create the illusion of office noise as she tries to get a client.

Act three is when Louis Canning appears again. Am I the only one wondering why he has never become a main character for the show? You’d think that he could, but he hasn’t yet. It’s possible he never will. Anyways, the judge doesn’t want the tape Diane is showing in court to see the light of day.

Act four continues the tangled and complicated case of the person who got an abortion that I find hard to summarize. Why can’t I summarize things? Ugh. Anyways, Grace is able to help her mother find clients. That’s after Alicia and whatshername fumble their way through various interviews and thus loss potential clients. Meanwhile, I need to learn the name of Cush Jumbo’s character.

Act five has Alicia and Ms. Quinn (is that her last name?) learning about Grace getting their law firm clients. Of course, at the end of the episode, she wants money in return. It turns out that the judge has a bias against Diane. The case isn’t resolved and I don’t know if it will be or not. Why does this show never resolve things? That reminds me of something.

On the next Good Wife, more of the Alicia/Jason romance is talked about. Eli, being his usual self, butts heads with people over this. He doesn’t want this to affect Peter’s run for president. Of course, I don’t know what the writers would want regarding this anyways. Last season ended up with a win turned into a loss so they could go anywhere with this season. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

February Fourteenth 2016’s Episode

There might be the possibility that posts from this season will appear out of order. Of course, as I’m writing this, I don’t know whether or not I will do this. The reason I’m thinking about this is because I did this with my Madam Secretary blog since they aired a sort of Christmas episode and I wanted it to be linked up with this blog for a while with the episodes from the same week posted around the same time as each other. Now I have two November episodes of Madam Secretary on VHS and one of The Good Wife as I’m writing this. I’ll see what happens. I just know that if this show gets cancelled, I will be updating this blog more often than I have in the past. But, I might have already told you that in a different blog post that I wrote later. If any show that I blog about gets cancelled, I will have ways of continuing the blog. You’ll find out how if we ever cross that bridge.

Well, it’s official: the Good Wife is ending at the end of this season. In May, the show will air its last episode and then the show will be over. You will see what happens with this blog in the future. If I don’t like the series finale, I’ll probably discontinue it. If I do like it, then I will continue posting in this blog by mentioning what happens to the cast and creators of this show after they leave The Good Wife. I will mention my final judgment on this later. But, it is possible and very likely that even if I do cast updates that I will still end up stopping the blog at some point. We’ll see what happens regarding that. Just know that the last regular blog post of mine will be on the last episode of this show. I may end up getting the DVDs and blog about the whole series from the beginning in it. We’ll see what happens. But this show had a nice journey and I’ll probably mention a send-off in a separate post at the end. The question just becomes whether or not it will be the last post I ever do in this blog or if I’ll start some other way of continuing it.

Not much has happened or has been able to happen with the movie watching of my aunt’s and uncle’s old movies these past two weeks. Pretty much all I did end up watching was part of the Indiana Jones series. And I don’t know where/if I’ll continue these updates. I’d have to move it to a different blog, that’s for sure. So enjoy these updates until the last episode of this show airs.

Here’s a section that I’m putting in multiple blog posts. I was away from my home visiting family the day that this episode aired. There were potential ways for me to record the Sunday episodes of shows that I blog about, but I was concerned that the PGA tour might run long and there would be a tape delay messing up the recordings. This didn’t ultimately happen, though. I could have potentially watched and blogged about it elsewhere, but a lack of definite plans prevented that. Thus, the CBS shows that I blog about were watched online for this week and this post may be different than usual as a result.

This is the first time that I’ve had to watch a show I blog about online. (Well, not actually the first, but the first intended time where I actually did watch the whole episode online and then blog about it. The last time after issues recording prevented anything from recording, I posted that there would be a lack of a post within the post not considering or planning to watch something online. That wasn’t a usual option and I didn’t care enough about the blog at the time anyways.) Hopefully this won’t affect my post that much. I just hope that I can find the time and that I’m not eating something that causes my fingers to get too messy. That would prevent me from writing while watching, if you know what I mean. Anyways, I should get to the actual point of my blog post now.

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. We begin with Diane talking about her firm. Lucca and Alicia are both at this firm. We get to Eli’s daughter who works at a coffee shop. It appears that they only want Alicia and not Lucca. The daughter of Eli, whatever her name is, talks to a random costumer for some odd reason. I’m guessing that he’s important in some way. I’m guessing that he’s a journalist pretending to be someone else. Well, he actually works for the FBI. This is the same guy from an earlier episode I believe. He was with the judge scandal case. There is a case against Chum Hum. People come to arrest a client.

Act two has the reason for the arrest: Chum Hum has been hacked. We get to the case at hand. She does the case although there are problems with it as usual. Things are complicated for her as usual. I’m still wondering how this connects to other episodes that I’ve seen.

Act three has Eli and Alicia talking. Eli thinks that feds are investigating him. There is more to the case with Chum Hum. I’ve never really known what to think about Chum Hum per say. Are they bad? Possibly. They just always seem strange. Maybe they have endearing qualities to them like other frequent clients of theirs. Eli tells his daughter to go out with the FBI guy again. Lucca admits to having what Chum Hum is looking for.

Act four has Diane and Cary talking to Lucca about the information that she has. It’s hard for me to summarize this episode. I should work better on that. How am I supposed to be a writer in the future if I can’t even summarize things? Eli talks the FBI guy about various things. Lucca founds out that the foil thing that Chum Hum wants was posted on twitter and the followers of this person could have the information as well. Eli is concerned once again for Peter. It kind of gets old how often this happens.

Act five has the rest of the case with Mr. Howl. He is found innocent. Ruth tells Alicia to get out of whatever situation she is in while Alicia still can. I don’t think that there are scenes from next time, so you’ll just have to see that episode then. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

November Fifteenth 2015’s Episode

I don’t know for sure when I’ll be creating my new blog about CSI: Cyber. I have the previous week’s episode on VHS so I can blog about it later. I don’t know which episode will start the official list. There just can’t be a tape delay on either of my CBS affiliates that week. So if another doubleheader happens, then we have a problem.

Here’s a paragraph that I felt was worth posting in multiple blogs. On the 13^th of November (which was incidentally a Friday for all you superstitious people) a bad event happened. There were terrorist bombings in France. The news talked about how this could affect football games over the weekend. It could also potentially affect various programs on TV. While it doesn’t matter in the long run if shows are affected due to current events, I will keep an eye out for potential changes in these blogs.

Terrorists getting their way by having successful attacks are the real tragedy of this event. Any changes into the near future of TV shows are probably what people don’t care about as much. I remember when the Ferguson riots were happening last year. It was a Monday when the verdict was revealed. Riots happened during the night. Now on most of my networks, they showed the whole episodes of TV shows that were meant to air that night. But they aired it on delay to fit in the national newscasts and show the whole shows. Whatever happens, it’s nice when they show the whole episode as planned even if there are delays involved.

Now due to a future blog of mine that hasn’t been created yet as I’m originally writing this but will probably be published by the time this post is, I will not be doing Comic Sans MS in this episode. It’s possible that you’ll never see it again. Now a football game doubleheader was scheduled when this episode aired. First they aired a boring game that was a shutout and then they switched to a more interesting game that barely ended before 7. So we got the rest of the shows on a long delay.

Today’s episode is brought to you by 56 minute delay. We begin with a driverless car causing problems for a client. Alicia is part of a client that is voting a certain way. She also is seeking information about Frank Landau. Alicia and Lucca look into the driverless car case. Alicia brings up flaws that the driverless car could have had. Alicia wants Jason to work for her with an official contract. She is a bit awkward around him. Peter unexpectedly shows up.

Act two has Peter talking about the people that showed up. Eli is his usual crazy self. Eli wants Nora to do some spying for him on Ruth and the person she is with. I live this rivalry between Eli and Ruth. Diane brings up previous accidents of the client at hand. Jason talks about how they changed the hard drive of the driverless car.

Act three has more of the case with the car going on. They talk about the various changes in the hard drive. Someone is convinced that the AI will take over. Alicia wonders why the computer wasn’t taking orders from people. Alicia decides to have sex with her husband for some odd reason. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. Eli doesn’t even know how to react to this. They test out the driverless car.

Act four is when Jackie and Howard show up. They are engaged. I didn’t quite understand what was going on with Grace and her parents. Jackie is possibly racist to the black people that are around. There is an important vote in the near future.

Act five is when they explain what all might have happened with the driverless car and how someone else hacked the car. We don’t know the end result of the vote. I also don’t remember if this comes up in episodes that I’ve already seen, although it must have or it wasn’t resolved.

On the next Good Wife we have an interesting case and episode from what I remember. I just don’t remember when or if they resolve this strange vote thing. I guess that I’ll be back later with that episode. I don’t have any more episodes on VHS yet, but it could easily happen in the future. Just wait until March episode’s start to air after a basketball game by the NCAA. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off. 

January Thirty First 2016’s Episode

Something I wonder about this show is how it compares to being a political drama versus it being a courtroom drama. They haven’t done as much lately with the courtroom drama aspect of the show and I’m not sure how I feel about that. I still don’t know how the Diane Lockhart stuff relates to the plot in any way. It seems like the writers themselves don’t care that much about it. Do I care about them? I would care more if they could do it right. I do wonder which of the two will get more airtime.

I watched the movie Clueless. I replaced that with the movie The Devil Wears Prada. Meanwhile, I listened to one of the commentaries for the movie Rush Hour. I also watched more of the Bourne series. They both remain on the list. I also watched Pleasantville and it remains on the list so I can watch it again with commentaries.

The future of this show is starting to look bleak. We knew that the creators of this show were leaving it at the end of the season. But Juliana Margulies is thinking that she might be done with the show and they can’t do the show without her. I don’t know if this could actually happen or not. What I do know is that this show is always on the bubble and has never gotten cancelled. This could change at the end of this season. If it is the end, I just hope that there is resolution as this show tends not to resolve things. Speaking of which

Here’s the link to my new blog about CSI: Cyber- http://adamdeckercsicyber.blogspot.com/. And it wouldn’t have happened without this blog (which wouldn’t have happened without a blog about Madam Secretary). So remember: if there’s ever a show after this one and there’s a delay on one of my CBS affiliates but not the other one, there’s two different delays on each, or the delay is so long that the planned new episode of the show after this one doesn’t air at all, then I will create a blog about that show. Since the midseason schedule is starting and football season is over until near the end of the summer, the likelihood of that happening again this season is unlikely. That’s why I never created a blog about Battle Creek and how I also missed out on a blog about the original CSI.

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. We begin finally getting back to bond court. Lucca suggested getting a plea deal for someone, but Alicia is against that. Alicia then finds an old client who she decides to randomly help. He has still been in lock-up this whole time. I’m live blogging this episode for a change. I wonder just how long Jason has been flipping between Diane and Alicia. It seems as if he is two-timing her, in a way. After a while, it is nice that they are finally giving Diane’s firm a plot that’s actually worth being in the episode. It’s about time! The subject this time relates to diversity in a way. Eli returns to talk to Alicia. He has seemed unfortunately pathetic lately. I hate a person who is always apologizing, especially someone who is supposed to be tough. In the latest season of Big Brother, Vanessa was always apologizing and crying over the moves she was making. I didn’t like that. Eli tells what the message was about. But Alicia is taking the corrupt judge to court. I hope that he gets locked up or something.

Act two is when we get to the preceding trial of the judge and we switch to Diane’s case. Jason thinks that Diane should use a different argument in her case. The judge cross-examines the client against him and gets his way. Their client then turns the tables on Alicia and steals her client as well as sues her firm for malpractice. It’s interesting stuff like this that makes me wonder why Noel Kirkpatrick of tv.com doesn’t like the show anymore. I was considering him a potential replacement for this blog, should I need one, but that won’t happen. He’s not doing reviews of this show that much anymore. I don’t think that anyone else is doing it in his stead. Sorry if I’m seeming morbid by mentioning a potential replacement. I don’t plan on going anywhere, but you’ll never know what will happen. Two weeks ago, a baby was baptized at my church and this week was the same baby’s funeral.

Act three has more of Diane’s case. I don’t fully understand it right now. Alicia is depressed over the revelation about Will. This makes me wonder if he’ll be back for a flashback episode. I hope that will happen if she’s emotional about all of this. But Alicia gets Cary as a lawyer to help her against the malpractice suit.

Act four has the case against Alicia who was being sued by her former client. She ends up kissing Jason. I was wondering when that would happen. But would she still trust him once she learns of the cases he helps Diane with? They play a tape of the judge. “You can’t object; you’re a witness.” But, the tape can’t be entered as evidence in the case. Well, I thought that I would like Diane’s firm being back in the show, but they are still basically skimming over what they should be delving into. Her case was resolved. Lucca and the lawyer who is suing Alicia get into a fight over the case at hand. Alicia finally forgives Eli after he points out that she and Will were together.

Act five has the judge sending the case to trial. Jason admits that he has been offered jobs with Lockhart Argos. Alicia seems to be okay with him working there, but I don’t think that she knows his true motives. I don’t think that I do either. Cary wants Alicia to come back and work with their firm. It probably will happen. There are no scenes from next time, so I guess that we’ll be back whenever with the next new episode. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.