The reason that I started
reading Noel Kirkpatrick’s reviews of The Good Wife at tv.com is because I was
looking for a potential replacement to this blog, in case I ever needed one. Well,
he admitted that he hasn’t really liked this show since the fifth season and
has been hate watching it towards the end. I don’t understand hate watching. That
seems like the stupidest viewing habit of any person. If I don’t like a show, I
won’t watch it. That’s why I no longer tune into The 100. These people actually
have the gall to complain when bad shows return for future seasons. Why are you
watching a show you want to get cancelled? Do you not understand how ratings
work?
As for Noel, he seems to point
out a single moment of an episode and post three paragraphs as to why that
moment proves the episode is bad. At least his posts are short, but then he lingers
on too many stupid moments most people probably wouldn’t care about. Well, I
don’t read the comments so maybe other people have his mindset. I’m not
entirely sure why I still read his posts, but I will ride it out to the end. I
guess I was just hoping it would actually be good reviews for a while. I wish
that an actual fan could have been reviewing the show this season. Based on the
reviews that are typically at the site, I probably shouldn’t ever read any of
them since they are far too negative most of the time.
Here is the last movie
watching update that I’ll be doing in this blog. I might put this back in my
Survivor blog in the future or I might stop doing it entirely. Of course, if
there’s ever a new blog of mine, I’ll probably just do the updates there. What
show will replace The Good Wife in the 9/8 Central time slot on Sunday? Will it
be a new or existing show? I will probably mention what show replaces this one
and it could be a potential new blog. Considering how this show replaced
Without a Trace, you do have to wonder where they might go with a replacement
for this one. They could go with two comedies.
Anyways, as for the final
movie update, I watched Rat Race and replaced it on the list. I doubt that I
would be able to watch anything on Mother’s Day weekend and I was right. I was
not able to finish watching all of their movies just yet. The leaves the
following choices still on the lists: the Indiana Jones series (of which they
gave me just Raiders of the Lost Ark, although I now have all four movies on
DVD), the Devil Wears Prada (with commentary), Rush Hour series (with
commentary, although they only gave me the first two and not the third Rush
Hour), American Dreamz, The Ghost Writer, and the Best Years of Our Lives.
The choices of theirs for me
to watch that haven’t been added to any list yet are Adventures in Babysitting,
Blast from the Past, Hancock (one I’ve seen before), Invictus (one I’ve seen
before), Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, North by Northwest, Run Fatboy Run,
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and Vantage Point (one I’ve seen before). I
haven’t seen the movies that don’t have a note next to them on this waiting
list. On the list I’m rolling from, I’ve already seen the ones I’ll watch again
with commentary and the Indiana Jones series, but not the others just yet. I
normally like what I see even though I’ve never seen or even heard of some of
these movies before. Now I’m not sure if I’m done updating you on movies just
yet, but there will have to be a link to actors or writers from the Good Wife
for me to tell you about them in the future. I’ll tell you more on that
possibility in the next post.
Today’s episode is brought to
you by no delay. We begin with four people on phones at once talking about
various things related to the case against Peter. It turns out that the jury is
not actually ready to reach a verdict and want more evidence related to the
murder case from earlier. Jason finds evidence that an undetermined sound might
have been someone’s ringtone and tells this to Lucca who then tells the judge.
Lucca also tells Alicia about Jason figuring that Alicia wouldn’t leave Peter
if he were in jail. This leaves Alicia contemplating things such as who she’d
rather go home to. She imagines Peter, Jason, and then Will. She seems
surprised by her own thoughts and then imagines talking to Will again.
Act two has various
evidence/delay tactics being used by Diane’s side to help their case win. Grace
wants to stand by her father’s side through this ordeal instead of going to
college, something her mother disagrees with. Cary thinks that there was buried
evidence regarding the current case that the police might have filed with a
then recently closed case.
Act three is more of Peter
learning that Eli wants his donors to support Alicia instead of him. He thinks
that a divorce might be likely. There is evidence in the old case brought up
regarding the bullets, but it proves that Peter did have something to hide.
Act four has more of the case.
Peter learns about Grace’s plan to drop out of college to visit him in prison,
should he wind up there. After the ballistic evidence is brought up, the
prosecution brings Diane’s husband to the stand. This leads to a fight between
Diane and Alicia. Alicia convinces Lucca to bring up a possible affair that
Diane’s husband might have been having as evidence.
Act five is when the ballistic
evidence is thrown out of the case. The prosecutor offers the deal that Alicia
wants and Peter takes it. Imaginary Will offers advice of some sort, but it’s
hard to make out what the advice is. Alicia calls Jason and he shows up when
Peter is announcing his resignation. She runs off when she sees him during this
announcement and Peter follows after her. It appears that Jason is gone and
Diane appears to slap Alicia, presumably for what she told Lucca to do. Thus
the series ends.
That’s a pretty strange way to
end the series. There shouldn’t be endings with things left to be desired. And
yet, this is what happened. We don’t know after the last scene if Alicia decided
to forget Jason and stay with her husband or if Jason is no longer interested
and she stays with her husband. Maybe they wanted to keep fans in the dark so
they can go with whatever ending they want. That’s probably what they went
with. It’s hard to tell why they do that or what it means. But I take it to
mean that Alicia didn’t actually want either of them and preferred Will. We
just don’t know what her second choice would be. I’ll have to look up fan
reaction to this episode to see what they and the critics think.
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