C+Season 7In its closing arguments, The Good Wife makes a point to disappointKayla Kumari Upadhyaya5/09/16 1:02amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThere has never been a show quite like The Good Wife, and there likely never will be again. As it progressed, the…
BSeason 7The Good Wife tears down walls in penultimate episodeKayla Kumari Upadhyaya5/02/16 12:18amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe Good Wife is getting quite on-the-nose with this whole final-season thing. In tonight’s “Verdict,” a crew of…
A-Season 7The Good Wife throws a goodbye party for itselfKayla Kumari Upadhyaya4/24/16 11:33pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAs it nears its end, The Good Wife seems simultaneously ready and not ready to die. “Party,” which is really The Good…
A-Season 7The Good Wife warns of a surveillance dystopiaKayla Kumari Upadhyaya4/18/16 12:20amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“So, we’re right back where we started, huh?”
BSeason 7Alicia Florrick finally drops the d-wordKayla Kumari Upadhyaya3/27/16 11:50pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“Unmanned” brings much needed momentum to the final season of The Good Wife. After the events of tonight’s episode,…
CSeason 7Alicia is living her best life, but The Good Wife isn’tKayla Kumari Upadhyaya3/20/16 11:30pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThere’s a troubling contradiction at the heart of The Good Wife’s final season. “I wasted the last 20 years,” Alicia…
B+Season 7The Good Wife opens hot with “Hearing”Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya3/06/16 11:34pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkA lot of the best scenes in The Good Wife history have taken place in very small spaces—namely elevators. When the show…
B-Season 7The Good Wife keeps misfiring in “Targets”Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya2/21/16 10:43pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAlicia Florrick works at Lockhart, Agos & Lee now. Remember? Last week, Alicia and Lucca took Cary’s offer to join the…
B+Season 7The Good Wife begins the final countdown by mixing the old with the newBen Philippe2/15/16 12:36amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkA few seasons ago, The Good Wife was a show that might have been accused of juggling too many plates. Between the…
A-Season 7Alicia Florrick and Lucca Quinn become friends in a tumultuous episode of The Good WifeKayla Kumari Upadhyaya1/31/16 11:15pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkNothing is official yet, but all signs are pointing toward this being the final season of The Good Wife. Creators and…
B-Season 7The Good Wife goes knocking on the wrong doors in “Tracks”Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya1/18/16 12:41amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“Tracks” opens with a montage of Florrick & Quinn clients and deliveries arriving at Alicia’s downstairs neighbor’s…
B+Season 7Alicia spirals through complicated emotions in “Iowa”Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya1/11/16 1:05amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAs my fill-in LaToya Ferguson wrote in her review of The Good Wife’s midwinter finale, the only moment worth truly…
CSeason 7A desperate Good Wife brings up the past to try to save the futureLaToya Ferguson12/14/15 1:49amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkUntil the final moments of “KSR,” is shockingly low-key for a finale of any type. While that could be a strength in…
C+Season 7The Good Wife is losing sense of its charactersKayla Kumari Upadhyaya11/30/15 12:08amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkNever mind the fact that Lucca and Alicia were trying to steal candidates from Louis Canning last week. This week,…
B-Season 7When did The Good Wife become a comedy?Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya11/22/15 11:53pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkI never would have guessed that an episode of The Good Wife featuring Kelly Bishop and Vanessa Williams would be…
A-Season 7Alicia Florrick is in the driver’s seat of The Good WifeKayla Kumari Upadhyaya11/15/15 11:40pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWhen Lucca Quinn breezes into the conference room of Lockhart, Gardner, & Lee, she introduces herself and then pauses a…
A-Season 7The Good Wife brings back its past in order to move forwardKayla Kumari Upadhyaya11/08/15 10:33pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAnd just like that, the wiretap boys are back. When Lucca and Alicia take on a case that ends up leading back to the…
A-Season 7Eli Gold refuses to give up on The Good WifeKayla Kumari Upadhyaya11/01/15 10:18pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkEli Gold will not be defeated. After the events of “Payback,” I’ve realized just how important Eli Gold’s arc is this…
A-Season 7Bond court brings new rules to The Good Wife’s gameKayla Kumari Upadhyaya10/26/15 9:58amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“We’re being taxed,” Alicia explains to her latest bond court client when she realizes Judge Schakowsky is punishing…
A-Season 7The Good Wife cooks up delicious tensionKayla Kumari Upadhyaya10/19/15 12:28amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkSlowly but surely, The Good Wife is finding its groove again. “Cooked,” with its twists and emotionally supercharged…
