A recap of the 20th episode of the 4th season of The Good Wife, “Rape: A Modern Perspective.” Alicia and Will defend a client held in contempt for discussing her rape.

The big reveal, besides her boyfriend’s penchant for being a nutty birther, was that her father handed his best friend over to HUAC. That that would be just as damaging to her political career as a birther or fan fiction is why we love The Good Wife.

So this episode shakes Alicia Florrick a little and forces the veneer not to crack, but to shift from side to side, and in those movements we catch a glimpse of the mind of one of television’s most fascinating characters.

There was no fanfare heralding the return of Kalinda, but that’s okay. All we needed was Kalinda back being her enigmatic and prickly self and being best friends with Alicia even when they haven’t shared a meaningful scene in what’s felt like a season.

But the worst part is Maddie’s existence had Alicia pulling out that groaner about how women can’t be friends. Alicia (and the writers) stop. Please. Just stop. Stop enabling the patriarchy with your quiet support of Peter and condemnation of Maddie.

A recap of the 14th episode of the 4th season of The Good Wife, “Red Team, Blue Team.” Cary and Alicia face Will and Diane in court. Things get…heated.

Yet the worst sin committed was the happiness of one Alicia Florrick. As Joss Whedon has said and proven time and time again, a happy character is a boring show. It’s fluff. Fluff is called that because it’s cotton candy. It’s ephermeral but potent all at once and too much of it too quickly makes you sick…or very, very bored.

How is it that one appearance by Elsbeth Tascioni has me nearly excited about The Good Wife again? It’s been a long slog lately. The Good Wife has always been a soft-spoken show full of simmering passions and enormous feelings left unsaid. Juliana Margulies has crafted a quiet and deeply internalized character and for the [...]

Okay. My bad. It wasn’t until I was browsing my DVR and cueing up an episode of Adventure Time that I noticed we had a new episode of The Good Wife this week. Somehow it slipped straight past me. What’s worse, was even with notes and the episode fresh in my mind I’m having trouble [...]

Praise be your deity or natural law of choice. Nick is gone y’all and according to Kalinda he ain’t ever coming back. After farting around the sidelines for way more episodes than necessary and being vaguely threatening and vaguely interesting and vaguely abusive Nick has vaguely shuffled off this mortal coil. At least that’s what [...]