[Gelfling]

Season Two

28/09/2010
2x01 - Taking Control: 12.9 - 2.5/7

05/10/2010
2x02 - Double Jeopardy: 12.7 - 2.5/7

12/10/2010
2x03 - Breaking Fast: 11.8 - 2.6/7

19/10/2010
2x04 - Cleaning House: 12.2 - 2.6/7

26/10/2010
2x05 - VIP Treatment: 12.5 - 2.4/7

09/11/2010
2x06 - Poisoned Pill: 12.2 - 2.2/7

16/11/2010
2x07 - Bad Girls: 11.7 - 2.2/6

23/11/2010
2x08 - On Taps: 10.0 - 2.1/6

14/12/2010
2x09 - Nine Hours: 11.8 - 2.2/6

11/01/2011
2x10 - Breaking Up: 12.2 - 2.3/6

18/01/2011
2x11 - Two Courts: 11.3 - 2.1/6

01/02/2011
2x12 - Silly Season: 12.1 - 2.2/6


Season One

22/09/2009
1x01 - Pilot: 13.71 - 3.1/8

29/09/2009
1x02 - Stripped: 13.69 - 3.2/9

06/10/2009
1x03 - Home: 13.69 - 2.9/8

13/10/2009
1x04 - Crash: 12.98 - 2.8/8

20/10/2009
1x05 - Fixed: 12.98 - 2.8/7

03/11/2009
1x06 - Conjugal: 12.74 - 2.7/8

10/10/2009
1x07 - Unorthodox: 13.14 - 2.7/7

17/11/2009
1x08 - Unprepared: 12.77 - 2.6/8

24/11/2009
1x09 - Threesome: 12.73 - 2.9/8

15/12/2009
1x10 - Lifeguard: 14.21 - 2.8/8

05/01/2010
1x11 - Infamy: 13.85 - 3.0/8

12/01/2010
1x12 - Painkiller: 13.78 - 3.0/9

02/02/2010
1x13 - Bad: 13,01 - 2.7

09/02/2010
1x14 - Hi: 14.69 - 3.1/9

02/03/2010
1x15 - Bang: 13.2 - 2.7/8

09/03/2010
1x16 - Fleas: 13.8 - 2.8/8

16/03/2010
1x17 - Heart: 13.3 - 2.7/8

06/04/2010
1x18 - Doubt: 12.02 - 2.4/7

26/04/2010
1x19 - Boom: 12.1 - 2.2/7

04/05/2010
1x20 - Mock: 12.94 - 2.4/7

11/05/2010
1x21 - Unplugged: 12.85 - 2.4/7

18/05/2010
1x22 - Hybristophilia: 12.16 - 2.3/6

25/05/2010
1x23 - Running: 10.57 - 2.0/6

(Rating/share 18-49)



Previous Threads:

#1 - The Good Wife" might just be the best new hour' ~ the futon critic
#2 - 'Cause 14 million other people are watching it with you!
#3 - Because it has been picked as the #1 show of the season

[Det.Logan]

TFTNT

[Kiki17]

TFTNT!

from old thread

That was a brilliant speech actually. In one anecdote, she got it going with the family values people, the mothers, and she slapped both Peter and Childs around on the corruption and laziness in the city while they are fighting each other to know who's got the big one

Yup Those kinds of anecdotes are the ones that resonate with the public. It might be seen as a cheap political stunt, but voters like to relate to people like them, and usually a person with children is better trusted. I liked her speech as well, she knew it was something others would relate to her.

[Kalinda Smith]

New thread! thanks Fluff

It might be seen as a cheap political stunt, but voters like to relate to people like them, and usually a person with children is better trusted. I liked her speech as well, she knew it was something others would relate to her.

Me too. I'd vote for her in a heartbeat just based on that. Smart, very very smart. She took them down with a smile

[Det.Logan]

Originally Posted by Kiki17 (View Post) Those kinds of anecdotes are the ones that resonate with the public. It might be seen as a cheap political stunt, but voters like to relate to people like them, and usually a person with children is better trusted. I liked her speech as well, she knew it was something others would relate to her.

Family values are so abused that I feel sick the very moment I hear someone mention it . And I believe that Peter could use his family too, with a good dose of guilty and grief and the promise to be better for god, country and family (unfortunately Alicia has already set the veto).
Sorry, but in a country with the Vatican-inside I heard too many speeches like that one

[Kiki17]

Family values are so abused that I feel sick the very moment I hear someone mention it .... Sorry, but in a country with the Vatican-inside I heard too many speeches like that one

Yup they are abused indeed and if I heard it I would know right away it was a political stunt. Is not like they are making the story up is that the story is only inserted to make them more likely. Howevever the average voter is not as smart and would make assumptions about the person right away.

I'd vote for her in a heartbeat just based on that. Smart, very very smart. She took them down with a smile

heh those are the ones you need to worry about I think her speech was good and relatiable, and she knows how to connect. But I still need to hear more from her

[carito]

Originally Posted by Kalinda Smith (View Post) Me too. I'd vote for her in a heartbeat just based on that. Smart, very very smart. She took them down with a smile

Me too And I kind of liked that she leaked the deposition, now everyone is going to think twice before messing with her

[Kiki17]

Shinan:Right up his alley | Scene | National Post

If Mad Men is an exquisite butterflies-under-glass examination of How We Used to Live, and shows such as Dexter or True Blood are hi-fi, if gory, parables about How We Live Now, CBS’s The Good Wife is a dead-on two-way mirror into the precise political/personal zeitgeist. This, and it goes without saying: It’s actually too good to be on regular network television.

Christine Baranski is immersed in Steneim-generation shades of grey in her incarnation as a senior law partner— caught between a rock and Sarah Palin

Archie Punjab — oh, awesome Archie — is cat-and-mousing her way through things as an elusive investigator in short skirts. She is, to my mind, unlike any other character on television. Possibly bisexual.

And she was doing so good until....

ETA

'The Good Wife' Fan Columnist: Politics? Not as Usual

[Gelfling]

And I believe that Peter could use his family too, with a good dose of guilty and grief and the promise to be better for god, country and family

But Peter screwed up his "family values" card with his misdeeds. He's not "not using" it because it's beneath him or something
There's no way he could use it now without everyone going "I'm sorry, aren't you the guy who screwed young hookers last year? And now you're going all "family"? Are you kidding?"

Besides, she's not preaching "family values". She's just saying she's a mother and she has a different perspective on things from that.

thanks for the new ones, Kiki. It looks like CBS is pushing the show even during the week off. That's two "general reviews" in just a few days.

[Det.Logan]

Originally Posted by Kiki17 (View Post) heh those are the ones you need to worry about

I was starting to worry to be the only one who needs something more and especially something different to even start to considerate her position (I'm beginning to reconsider how good is Childs lack of fake smiles...).
I was thinking that it's ironic that to start cleaning the house you decided to use a dirty cloth, I can only imagine what is next (but of course we are privileged viewers since so far Alicia is still the best guess for the leaking stuff).

and shows such as Dexter or True Blood are hi-fi, if gory, parables about How We Live Now

I wonder if he actually saw both shows

[Kalinda Smith]

Archie Punjab — oh, awesome Archie

just not awesome enough that reporters will take 5 seconds to check her name before raving about her apparently

[tvdramafan]

Sorry.. I cannot figure out how to post the link... this is not a review, but a cute coluumn about our fav show:
National Post Toronto: Shinan Govani

Isn't it about time we talked about The Good Wife?

The first thing I'll say about this legal-TV-proceduralwolfincharacterstudy sheep's clothing is that I am glad, so very glad, it's not 1983. If it was, you see, 1983--given what I do, and given how every night is a work night, so to speak -- I would probably be turning down every social engagement that came my way for Tuesday.

Thankfully, we live in the age of DVRs and TV-on-the-Web -- and, probably, coming our way, programs that will appear as holograms on our wrists -- and I don't have to sacrifice my social prowling for the Julianna Margulies headliner, although, I will admit, that once or twice, I have "called in sick" to watch the show in --gasp!-- "real time."

That's the esteem in which I hold for this all-out drama. If Mad Men is an exquisite butterflies-under-glass examination of How We Used to Live, and shows such as Dexter or True Blood are hi-fi, if gory, parables about How We Live Now, CBS's The Good Wife is a dead-on two-way mirror into the precise political/personal zeitgeist. This, and it goes without saying: It's actually too good to be on regular network television.

From the moment the show revved into being in September 2009 -- shades of both Silda Spitzer and Elizabeth Edwards in its earliest frames -- the show had a sleek, ripped-from-headlines feeling. Margulies, in the pitch-perfect role of the titular wife, Alicia Florrick, was playing a round of Meet the Press with her stick-on husband, a rogue of a politician played by Chris Noth. She stuck by him. He went to the slammer. She joined her old Chicago law firm to keep her family going -- and, well, we were off to the races.

With the format allowing for a weekly who/why-dunit -- often every bit as hot as a topic on The View -- the office politics kept the diehards among us glued (with politics every bit as interesting as the shifting alliances/ frenemy-ships on The West Wing). In terms of emotional checkings and saving, there was, too, the lure of the potential office romance (Alicia's boss, played by Josh Charles, is an old flame, and the show has played their longing for one other with classic Moonlighting tempo).

But this is the rub: The show has only gotten better in its second season. With the various cases that pass through the law firm posing as a reinforcing Greek chorus behind the emotional zigs and zags, the pulsating themes of morality and family, gender schisms and personal compromise build and build and build. Build with the skill of a Mies van der Rohe. Foundation clay provided, in its way, by The Huffington Post! So handcrafted is this show for mediaphiles and news-a-holics alike that while a big cameo "get" on Glee recently was Britney Spears, for The Good Wife ... it was Lou Dobbs! Appearing as himself, naturally! (Can Charlie Rose be far behind?)

These things live and die on the casting sword, and in that regard, The Good Wife is blessed. Alan Cumming, for instance, is playing the part of a political henchman to the hilt -- a Michael Clayton, if you will, to Noth's character (who's out of the slammer, and running for office again). Christine Baranski is immersed in Steneim-generation shades of grey in her incarnation as a senior law partner -- caught between a rock and Sarah Palin. And, Archie Punjab -- oh, awesome Archie -- is cat-and-mousing her way through things as an elusive investigator in short skirts. She is, to my mind, unlike any other character on television. Possibly bisexual. Definitely South Asian. Always giving good water-cooler -- and, for her efforts, recently took home an Emmy. Margulies, meanwhile, combines steely resolve with such interior expressionism that you forget she's acting. (And, this, coming from someone who didn't "get" her big-deal-ness during her reign on ER.)

The perfect reciprocity between life and art and non-imitation acting arose again last week when, on the show, Alicia and the gang found themselves dealing with a torrent of sexual allegations brought up on the behest of a hotel masseuse against one "Joe Kent," a man described as "the most beloved Democrat in America" -- one on the cusp of receiving the Nobel Prize. The Good Wife being The Good Wife, there was some alignment with the similar rash of actual allegations lobbed against Al Gore -- and, even more spookily, a nod to the even more recent Clarence/Ginni Thomas sensationalism, when Joe Kent's wife was called in to blindfolds defend her husband's honour. Gripping. All-too-human. One hour of television.

All of which is, I guess, a long way of me telling you: If you're throwing a shindig on a Tuesday, and this particular social columnist doesn't make it, you have been handily warned.

sgovani@nationalpost.com



Read more: Right up his alley

[Gelfling]

Thanks hun

[Kiki17]

What a weird TV season this has been. Not one of the new shows has really taken off, and several returning ones, like "Glee" and "Parenthood," seem to have lost their mojo. But there is one program that is quietly having a truly extraordinary season, and that program is "The Good Wife." I'll admit it, when "The Good Wife" first debuted last year I groaned. Great, another legal drama case of the week show. Just what we needed. And "The Good Wife" is a legal drama case of the week show. But it is also so much more. The show has become must watch TV by mixing those cases of the week with more serialized personal and political storylines that keep you counting the days until the next installment airs. Will Alicia Florrick stay with her cheating husband Peter, or run off with her boss Will Gardner? Will Peter recapture the State's Attorney's office that he previously vacated in scandal? These were themes explored in the first season, and they've now been joined by fresh new intrigue. Cary, who last season was in a friendly competition with Alicia to be hired by the firm and lost, has now reemerged as a revenge seeking missile in the State's Attorney's office, determined to make Alicia and the entire firm pay for passing him over. The sexy and mysterious investigator Kalinda now has a rival on board with a new and equally skilled sleuth named Blake also working for the company. A recent scene in which she smashed his car to smithereens was a particular highlight. And then there is Peter's campaign manager, Eli Gold, so skillfully played by Alan Cumming, who is now a series regular. While Peter is a somewhat reformed politician, Eli doesn’t mind playing dirty and his tact and tactics are a joy to behold. Add all these elements in along with yes, those cases of the week, and you have the finest procedural meets serialized story hybrid around. And that's my verdict.

EW TV Review: "The Good Wife" - NY1.com

[Gelfling]

Thanks Kiki. I Must admit I don't get where this onslaught of vague show recaps is coming from but I'm guessing somewhere in the vicinity of CBS' publicity department. If I wasn't watching the show, I probably wouldn't start because of that