Kalinda: Elena and Damon have sex in the end in a pickup truck
Diane: I'm happy for them.
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| This is literally her reaction. I. Love. This. Show |
Said with a completely straight face. There's never going to be another show like The Good Wife, is there?
The Case
Sweeney is always a joy to have back on the show. I mean 'joy' in that he creates interesting storylines, not that he has a refreshing personality. Mostly, he's just creepy. Case in point: telling Will that it's okay Will helps out on his only if Will tells him details about sleeping with Laura. Another case in point? His girlfriend/fiance.
Alicia: You know she's going to cheat you.
Sweeney: I know. It's okay, I'll just kill her.
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| Will my husband kill me? You married Sweeney, so probably. |
I love Morena Baccarin in this role. I loved her in Firefly and love her in Homeland currently, but it's nice to see her play a slightly more evil role. I mean, she was good in V, but it wasn't good enough of a show for me to keep watching. I hope her and Dylan Baker can resume these roles sometimes in the future, because they pull them off so well.
Laura, Will and Alicia
Other than being harassed by Sweeney's girlfriend and picking out new fabric for her couch in her HUGE office, Alicia had very little to do in this episode. Except the scene where she has to tell Laura she and Will had a thing. The fact that this show isn't dragging out the whole "Alicia-slept-with-Will-but-is-giving-Laura-advice-about-dating-Will" thing shows how highly the show thinks of it's viewers. To go into that would be a tired storyline, and I'm glad the show avoided it. I'm also glad they didn't add to the current love triangle and had Laura break up with Will. But you know the guy she mentioned totally doesn't exist, so that makes me wonder what she is going to tell Alicia. I mean, if Alicia's her friend, wouldn't they have conversations that may include this dude? I'm intrigued to see how this is going to play out in the last few episodes.
Carey and Robyn
If you haven't fallen in love with Robyn yet, watch this episode. I mean, look at her face.
Kalinda is funny because of how people react to her. Kalinda does not always respond in a socially acceptable human fashion, and the audience loves her for it. Everyone else, however, is not accustomed to her Kalinda-ness are are often put-off in a humorous fashion. Robyn, on the other hand, is funny because she plays along and tries to be as serious as possible. She's nice and generally up-beat, and just has smart as Kalinda, but she does not have the cold exterior that Kalinda does. The dynamic between these two should be interesting to explore for the rest of the season, but I kind of want Robyn and Kalinda to become a kick-ass investigative team who feed off of each other rather than argue with each other.
Diane
Here's another reason I love The Good Wife: the female characters like Diane. After spending the episode digging through her past so she can become a state Supreme Court Justice, she proposes to Kurt. This is not shown to be the 'safe' option, just her choice. And she pursues her choice. But most importantly, she's the one who proposes. Very few shows let their female characters do that, currently the only one that comes to mind is Gilmore Girls. Kurt is the one with doubts, Diane is the one who is all for it, even if it may be a difficult marriage and fuck anyone who would consider her birther boyfriend/fiance/husband a tarnish on her record. Vampire Diaries fanfiction and her father's indiscretions, sure. But not who she decides to be with.
There are only a few more episodes left in this season, and I'm excited to see what happens.
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