May 28
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To be fair, this was not supposed to be the season finale of The Good Fight. Like many series, the show’s production…
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Apr 9
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The Good Fight has dabbled in political fanfiction before, but in its four premiere, it goes all the way in on a…
May 16 2019
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In its third season, The Good Fight pushed the boundaries of its own universe. Characters broke the fourth wall;…
Mar 28 2019
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More and more on this season of The Good Fight, characters are turning to decidedly morally bad tactics in order to…
Mar 21 2019
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Halfway through “The One Inspired by Roy Cohn,” Cush Jumbo as Luca Quinn delivers a lengthy, gripping, emotionally…
Mar 15 2019
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The Good Fight’s season three premiere has a lot going for it, playing to all of the show’s strength with…
Mar 4 2018
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The Good Fight returns for a second season with a premiere steeped in death. Elegantly framed by a central funeral…
Apr 16 2017
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Controlled chaos is the oxymoronic space where The Good Fight does its best work. Best exhibited by its very extra…
Apr 9 2017
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The very simple narrative structure of “Self Condemned,” the penultimate episode of The Good Fight’s first season,…
Apr 2 2017
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With the attack on Reddick, Boseman, & Kolstad wrapped up after last week’s episode, “Reddick V Boseman” turns the…
Mar 26 2017
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The Good Fight’s first season has been building to a showdown between the city of Chicago and Reddick, Boseman, &…
Mar 19 2017
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Following up on Neil Gross’ introduction to The Good Fight last week, “Social Media And Its Discontents” brings the…
Mar 12 2017
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Heading into the 2016 presidential election, NBC pulled an episode of Law & Order: SVU based on the sexual assault…
Mar 5 2017
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Plenty of nefarious forces have threatened Reddick, Boseman, & Kolstad in the first few chapters of The Good Fight,…
Feb 26 2017
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The thing about power, Adrian explains in “The Schtup List,” is that “you got to take it from somebody to give it to…
Feb 19 2017
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As its title suggests, The Good Fight interrogates what it means to be on the “right” side of things. Diane and Maia…
Feb 19 2017
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One of the earliest and most noticeable differences between The Good Fight and The Good Wife—other than the fact…
Feb 17 2017
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For several seasons, The Good Wife offered fraught legal drama, scored by tension-building classical strings and…