Well, we are finally to the review that I’m doing of the final season of The Good Wife. There will still be more random posts that I’ll have to figure out when and how to do over time. I even plan to rank the seasons at some point. But for now, I’m talking about the last season of The Good Wife. This is Adam Decker, getting ahead of himself and needing to write the rest of this post.
Season 7 overview: After the departure of some of the other characters in this show, we got to see the introduction of Lucca and Jason. Peter wound up in trouble yet again as his political future was up in the air at one point in time. The show even played on its introduction by how it ended. Peter tried to run for president and failed while even Eli had to admit that Alicia would have made a better candidate. It was nice to see a different PI even as it sucked to not see Kalinda anymore. We got a whole new dynamic as a result that we wouldn’t have seen otherwise.
How this season was different from others: We saw a lot of new recurring characters like Howard and Ruth that were never covered in other seasons. With it being the only one without Kalinda, it was quite the departure. They handled Lucca’s story pretty well. It was good that they could make more use of her the future through the use of the sequel series.
What made it good: I felt that Howard was kind of lovable, even if he was overused to the point of being annoying. A lot of storylines were wrapped up in a good way. It explained why we didn’t see as much of the other characters in the future, such as why Eli’s career might have been over. We saw more of the corruption of the court system of the show that wasn’t mentioned as much as it could be. What at one point seemed like a throwaway case was turned into an important plot point that brought forth the end of the series in a great way.
What made it bad: Pretty much all of the Peter subplot towards the first half of the season was a waste of time. The parts with Howard were not well received by fans. The finale of the show was not liked by many and even had me longer for an ending that is better. I still like the show, but the finale is one of the lowest rated episodes of the series as a result. The Good Fight only excuses part of it. The rift that happened between Eli and Alicia was pretty dumb. Why did he just randomly admit to erasing the voice mail from Will and just give it up for no good reason? And it was buried as quickly as it was unearthed. The plots involving Diane and Cary were often only put in there as afterthoughts and it seemed more like they did the sequel series just to improve one what they should have done better this time around. That’s not to say that what they’ve done with Diane in the first season of The Good Fight was bad at all, but they shouldn’t have waited until then to do it.
More thoughts on it: Starting out, this seemed like the best season of the show yet. But the season did not tend to last as good with quality as it could have and I might have only liked it due to just how bad the previous season was to me. It is hard to rank the first half of the season as better since a lot of it was not really much of anything in terms of the storylines we got from the end. I really liked the episode called Party due to its intro and its last appearance of Zach. But certain plots were unresolved such as how Peter caused the scandal that ruined Alicia’s state’s attorney career before it ever started, but she never learned of this and it wasn’t really put in there for most reasons. It ruined Diane’s relationship with her husband during the last episode which only went more places when the next series came to resolve things. Without The Good Fight, too much of this would have been worse than it was.
Honestly, this is the only season of the show thus far that was covered entirely in this blog of mine here. I’m hoping that I can get the whole series blogged about at some point in time (such as the earlier one where there was an election lawsuit over potential ballots, which I think was a season finale in maybe the fifth or fourth season), although I have no idea if this will happen or not. I can only hope that there is more to cover in this blog over time. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.
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