November Twenty-Third 2014’s Episode

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.

May Third 2015’s Episode

This blog is tied into another blog of mine about Madam Secretary. That show is airing its season finale, but the Good Wife still has more episodes to air. This could mean that you’ll see even less of the blog than you should. This could put the two blogs out of whack, unless this show gets cancelled. That is within the realm of possibility as this show doesn’t get the ratings it needs to. Well, it gets good enough ratings, but not as good as one would like.

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. We start with Alicia having to thank people for donating to her campaign. One of the people she was planning on thanking wasn’t actually a donor. He turned out to be a former client seeking help with a case. I don’t remember if he has actually appeared in the show before. Anyways, it turns out that Alicia is probably going to help with his case.

The second act has Alicia researching the old case on cassette tapes. That was her method of recording. It seems like this is supposed to be a link to the first season of this show, but why didn’t she have better methods of recording? You’d think that she would have, but maybe not. They still have not addressed what might have happened with Kalinda just yet. She appears during flashbacks helping with the case. There might be a hole in the case that they are trying to address. Is there a hole? Will they be able to fix the hole? What could prevent the case from succeeding?

The third act has the Kalinda explanation as pretty much being that she is gone in some way. Maybe she’s dead or she just left for somewhere else. Alicia continues to get Cary’s help with the case. It seems that there might be more than one hole in it. A tape that could have helped no longer has what it needs to on it. The client was a drug dealer at one point. Not sure how to summarize what’s going on. I should work on fixing that problem of mine.

The fourth act has more of the case happening. How will they solve cases without Kalinda? I don’t know for sure how that will work. There could always end up being a new person who will do that. Anyways, they keep trying to figure out how to prove that their client was innocent.

The fifth act has Alicia saying where she got the information from. Well, she might have lied about it, but it gets the case dismissed. She wants to start her own firm and that could be where we go with the next season if there is one. She asks another lawyer for help. This show has a way of making people work together and then against each other. That happens a lot it seems.

On the next Good Wife, there is a usually vague promo as usual. I’m not sure why they even air promos at all if they say absolutely nothing about what the upcoming episode will be about. Anyways, the season finale is the next episode. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

April Twenty-Sixth 2015’s Episode

I missed a lot of the last episode that aired before this due to tape delay. I have seen the ending of it and will watch the rest of the episode (including the ending that I’ve already seen) later. I put it on VHS due to the Master’s Tournament. It had a winner before 6, when it was supposed to end, but they decided to air footage of the winner walking through a crowd, people talking about the game, and the winner getting some stupid coat before they started the next program, which put everything on delay. The good news is that I’m pretty sure that the Masters is the last time that there’s a potential sports delay on CBS until football season starts. Well, there could be some things during the summer, but that shouldn’t matter when it comes to this show being aired.

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. We begin with Alicia giving a speech about stepping down as State’s Attorney. She doesn’t know what to do. Diane has to deal with a case that’s hard to describe. Alicia is told by Diane and Cary that she would be welcomed back to her old firm. However, she gets a phone call which seems to point in a different direction.

The second act has Alicia contemplating what to do. She seems to be playing Diane while Diane is playing her. She considers starting a new firm (again) or at least telling people that’s what she could be doing. Kalinda uses a flashdrive to steal something from a computer, but she has to leave quickly and her presence on the computer was probably noticed.

The third act has someone else in trouble for the flashdrive use. Kalinda is using this to get out of her metadata situation it seems. Um, she realizes that burying herself in more problems isn’t going to work to solve the first problem, right? Maybe this is why she is probably leaving after this season. But that’s only in the event that there is a next season. Conspiracy theorists would argue that this show has to stay on the air to support Democrats in the 2016 election. How far away is the election? I don’t think that they are right about that. Anyways, Alicia tries her best to get her clients back while the grandma accused of doing drugs is a complicated case that they are doing.

The fourth act delves more into Kalinda. I do wonder if they are making her seem possibly suicidal. That doesn’t sound good. But she’s depressed, it seems, as she’s trying to straighten things out. Meanwhile, Alicia learns more about what’s happening between her and Diane leading to them talking it out with each other. Also, there was a funny scene where the grandmother tried to prove that she was a drug addict. She couldn’t prove it, but it was fun watching her try.

The fifth act has the whole Diane/Alicia fight to be revealed as misunderstanding of sorts. I’m not really sure what happened. Meanwhile, there is an ambiguous story arc with Kalinda this episode. The case against the grandmother only results in probation as there was less than the legal limit to make it a felony. I don’t understand what the difference is that makes some drug use misdemeanors and the other set felonies. Of course, if you don’t do drugs, then you won’t have a problem with that.

On the next Good Wife, Alicia is not taken out of the fight due to her having to withdraw from state’s attorney. Kalinda is not mentioned in the first promo so it is hard to know what to make of that. I guess that I’ll have to wait for the next episode to see what happens. The promo was very vague. For now, this is Adam Decker signing off.

April Fifth 2015’s Episode

Want to hear an interesting fact about April fifth? Well, since you can’t answer that question, I’ll tell you anyways. On April 5^th, 1841, the United States of America had no president. I’m a nerd on presidential history, so I memorized this fact. William Henry Harrison, who was the president, died the day before. John Tyler, the vice-president, did not take the oath of office, and thus did not become president until the day afterwards. Thus, there was no president on April 5^th that year. Pretty interesting, right? Since this show deals with politics, I thought that I would tell you that.

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. We start with an interview with Alicia that her campaign is running. This may not be as good as the political ads from earlier this season (a festive courthouse shooting!), but they seem pretty good this time as well. Once again, today’s episode comes with distractions. Kaldina is worried about the evidence that she falsified. Diane does a huge fight regarding gay marriage. What’s with all the news people supporting it? I mean, if one is against gay marriage, suddenly they are a villain. And yet, being gay is still considered controversial. What up with that?

The second act has more of the hacked emails of Alicia. This could be bad for her as it revealed her affair with Will. Also, it is hard to know what to think of the gay rights stuff in this episode. I just know that the bible says nothing about gays automatically going to hell. It only says that unbelievers go to hell. But I should probably keep quiet about my opinions on the whole gay thing as I don’t want to offend anyone. Or maybe I don’t care. If I did, this blog would probably be updated closer to the actual episode airing. But there’s a reason why I don’t keep it too updated.

The third act has Diane realizing that the case she is helping with may be more important than she thinks it is. It was mentioned on NPR’s All Things Considered. (Dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah). Kalinda is told not to tell anyone about the metadata she tampered with. Alicia admits to some people that she did have an affair with Will, which is what her emails strongly suggest happened.

The fourth act has Alicia saying that the hacked emails were just embarrassing flirtations. Peter mentions interviews in order to win a conversation, but it’s unknown if he could have actually seen the interviews, or if he knew what they were going to say in the interview and was mentioning something that he couldn’t have seen.

The fifth act has everything wrapped up, I think. Well, the last scene didn’t wrap much up, but that was intentional. The person who Diane was talking to, basically said that he likes politicians who stick by their beliefs instead of just going with whatever will get them elected. There also may have been crooked voting machines that helped get Alicia elected.

On the next Good Wife, things start to unravel all at once for Alicia and Diane. Were voting machines acting bad? Will the false metadata get Diane disbarred? Are they setting up the metadata thing as a way to write out Kalinda from the show? All of these questions could be ignored as usual on the next Good Wife episode! For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

March Twenty-Ninth 2015’s Episode

Okay, quick summary of my life: I was very busy on the day this episode aired so I missed some of this episode, even though it is airing at a 17 minute delay. Congrats to whoever won that basketball game that ran 17 minutes long. It was part of the NCAA tournament. Anyways, to the episode.

Let’s do a quick sum-up of what happened at the beginning. A creepy old guy doesn’t like Alicia anymore although he helped get her elected. People are stealing movies from the internet with the help of friendly costumer service. That badass cool black guy doesn’t like the area and wants to leave. This could be how they get rid of Kalinda, provided that there is a next season of this show. If there is, it’s already revealed that Kalinda will be leaving. If there isn’t, then everyone has to find new work. This might be the lowest rated of the bubble shows. But, of the four bubble shows on this network, it seems likely that only one will get cancelled. Plus, conspiracy theorists demand that this be on during the upcoming election year next TV season.

The third act has more things falling apart for the people in question at Alicia’s firm. All hell broke loose after Alicia got elected state’s attorney. People are at each other’s throats, sometimes literally. There are also serious problems with emails.

The fourth act has more wondering about emails that are missing. Geez, people think that Elizabeth McCord is like Hilary Clinton but Alicia Florrick seems more worthy of that title. Is it a coincidence that this is so similar to the Hilary Clinton email nontroversy? I mean, that was pretty recent to the news. We then get back to Kalinda doing what she does best: solving the case at the last minute. While I have mixed feelings to the character in general (she’s always doing weird things, it seems), I do wonder how they would solve cases at the last minute without Kalinda. Maybe they’d have to be better at the whole things. The episode ends and I missed a lot of this confusing show. Oh well. I guess this will just be a terrible blog post that I have this time.

On the next Good Wife, the hacked emails of Alicia’s wind up causing her a bunch of trouble. What else would it do? You do have to wonder how they’d treat affairs of hers compared to that of her husband. How is it different in real life? I don’t know because it seems that only men get caught having affairs. But is that a fair assessment? I don’t know. Anyways, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

March Twenty-Second 2015’s Episode

I should have had this recorded on VHS. But it wound up on my laptop instead. I’ve decided that it will be with the regularly scheduled blog posts instead of the later VHS episodes. You’ll notice old VHS episodes posted a lot later than some other episodes. I never know when to update any of these blogs of mine, unless they are about Survivor. That one always has a clear time to update. Also, I still don’t know if I’ll create a blog about Battle Creek or not. That show is doing much worse in the ratings than this show is. This show is always on the bubble but has not yet been canceled. I have the feeling that another network would be likely to pick up this show if CBS cancelled it. But I’ve been wrong before and know with absolute certainty that I will continue to be wrong about other things from time to time. I just hope that it moves to another show on network television as I would not be able to watch this show on a network that I’d have to pay to watch. Don’t expect a bubble show to stay around forever. Just be grateful for whenever it does. Anyways, the rest of CBS midseason besides Battle Creek is actually doing quite well. Plus, you may notice a scheduling gap on Thursdays that they have. They could fill it with something, or it could stay until after May. I’m nerdy about television, so sorry if that ever comes out sometimes.

Today’s episode is brought to you by 35 minute delay. I’m surprised that it wasn’t accounted for in the epg because I know that March Madness would more than likely delay the start of the game. Guess that it wasn’t the same rule as football doubleheaders have. Sorry to anyone who missed the last 35 minutes of the show. DVR can always cause problems on Sundays on CBS. But you either already knew that or it doesn’t actually matter to you. We begin on Election Day. Alicia Florick prepares to vote. Diane Lockhart is stuck at some Republican event with her husband. People are concerned that Peter talking about how his wife has the election in the bag means that people won’t actually vote. She also has an acceptance speech written already, but not a concession speech. Honestly, if I ever ran for office, which I probably wouldn’t, I’d write both speeches before the election.

The second act has Alicia playing Halo with someone from her staff. I’ve never actually played Halo, although I don’t really like shooter games that much. Alicia is convinced that her husband doesn’t want her to win the election. Kalinda has problems of her own escorting that kid to school. I forget why she is doing this. Was that ever really explained? The problem might have been resolved, but it seems to create its own set of problems. Meanwhile, people are wondering how to best handle the election at hand. To me, they normally seem worried about things that aren’t important. Well, maybe they are important in some way. But how? Also, does it concern anyone that the Halo microphones might have picked up the plans regarding robo calls?

The third act has Diane having a discussion regarding abortion. I do not support abortion, but I don’t like the fact that supports of abortions are labeled as baby killers. I mean, they only support the idea, right? They aren’t actually performing them or getting them, are they? Maybe it’s just a way of supporting my own political beliefs. There are things that one side gets right that the same side gets wrong about other things. Why is a fetus not considered human life? The only thing that can create human life is that of a fetus. Maybe it is just poorly defined what life is. Anyways, there’s more serious threats regarding the election and whether or not Alicia can win it.

The fourth act has Diane unable to eat something that she herself killed. Alicia continues to play Halo a lot. They must have a good product placement deal with them. Or they want us to show a different side of Alicia. Peter makes an unannounced speech that affects traffic in the area, preventing a lot of people from getting to the polls. The election is soon over and they’ll tell us who won after a commercial break. Of course, that’s where a real commercial break is put.

The fifth act tells us basically that Alicia won the election. Her campaign manager doesn’t really know what to do about his potential job in California (and his feelings for Alicia). Alicia wants her opponent in the election to work for her, probably just to keep him out of the way of any other political things that he could do.

On the next Good Wife, clients at Alicia’s firm get upset about her election, it seems. Considering how the editors frequently mislead us in their ads, then I don’t know what to make of things as usual. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

March Fifteenth 2015’s Episode

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. You may not know this about me, but I am an Illinois citizen. So I may point out stuff this show does wrong about Illinois. I’ll also post if they get stuff right too. I get annoyed that they mix reality and fiction on this show, but I like this show a lot so I won’t complain about it that often.

We begin with some weird things happening with a computer. Not really sure what’s happening there, but I probably will pretty soon. I am keeping this episode for my mother to see as she hasn’t yet watched it. I really hope that she can get caught up on a bunch of stuff so we’ll see what happens.

The first act brings us a faulty gun that injured someone. The gun was made by a 3D printer and the manufacturer who designed the gun is being sued. Alicia’s campaign has yet another problem regarding her opponent this time. Questions regarding who should actually be sued are part of the trial. There are problems with Louis Canning as well.

The second act explains that the person who printed the gun made some design tweaks to it that may have contributed to the failure that happened to it. Eli is once again upset over probably nothing. He does that a lot. I’m not sure why. I guess it is just his character.

The third act has a test of a replica of the gun that caused the problems it did. It is believed by a certain man that the printer was actually at fault and they should be suing the designer of that instead. This leads him to getting subpoenaed by Diane.

The fourth act doesn’t seem to explain much about the lawsuit. Kalinda thinks that the temperature at which one does 3D printing might affect things about it. Such a strange episode. Alicia doesn’t know how best to handle the situations regarding her campaign and what she does infuriates Eli.

The fifth act has the conclusion of the lawsuit. They decide to drop it for a settlement. Rumors that Alicia is supporting Hamas are bad, but that seems to be well resolved. It was hard to make sense of the subplot with Louis Canning. Alicia and her campaign manager finally hook up.

On the next Good Wife, Alicia thinks that her husband might be sabotaging her campaign. Will she actually win the race for state’s attorney? I don’t know what the writers have in store, but I can’t wait to find out. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.