The Good Wife drones on and on

Sorry for the corny title, but the more The Good Wife talked about unarmed drones last night, the more the play-on-words called to me. So there it is.

I couldn’t quite recall the last time that Lockhart/Gardner appeared before Judge Leora Kuhn (Linda Emond), but there’s no question that I remember Captain Terrence Hicks, or more accurately his real life persona, Patrick Breen. Breen played Sarah’s nanny George Weiss on Kevin Hill, and he was awesome opposite Taye Diggs. These days he mostly pops up as an attorney, but he was at his best caring for that little girl. Man do I miss that show.

Sergeant Elkins’ (Pepper Binkley) court martial was an interesting case, and I’m still confused as to why the lawyers (that is, the writers) took it in the direction of sex discrimination. Whether there are or aren’t some strange double standards in the Army as far as men versus women go, I thought it far more interesting that only in certain cases are the deaths of innocents worth prosecuting. And in the end it was a mistake to make it about men versus women … Judge Kuhn was far from impressed with the argument, and I don’t think it did anything to help Sergeant Elkins.

Eli’s “fall from grace” was a bit over-hyped. He lost the cheese lobby — no more James Eckhouse? — but I don’t see that his business is struggling, just that he lost a client. Anyway, he does better with political assignments than with food pyramid lobbying (how funny was first the circle and then the person?). I did like his joke about how Stacie Hall’s (Amy Sedaris) voice sounds like the one from “hold” when you call up a credit card company, but my hope is that, by cleansing the pallet with the cheese lobby, the writers plan for Eli to once again start focusing on what’s interesting.

I loved how Alicia found out that Jackie had been snooping in her room (and she doesn’t know the half of it). I do wonder why Alicia was looking at an old webcam video during that meeting, but the up-close sight of Jackie’s face was perfect. Alicia was right to change the locks — I wondered long ago why she hadn’t done so yet — but it might have been more impactful had Alicia not been there to open the door for Jackie right away. Alicia should have planned it so that Jackie would be stuck waiting in the hall for an hour before her showing up and confronting her about what she’d done. Jackie is too unbearable to get into, but good for Alicia for finally standing up to her.

I actually find it ironic that what Alicia’s portrayed as a strong woman for is for sticking by Peter while he was in prison. I think it took a lot more courage for her to end things with him and move on with her life. And if that’s wherein lies her strength, last night with Jackie was the first time we’ve seen Alicia flexing that muscle since moving Peter out of the house back in the season premiere. It’s about time.

But buying Zach a car so that Jackie doesn’t have to come over and pick the kids up anymore? Right back to the (expensively) passively aggressive Alicia. At least she came out to play for a little bit.

Clacked by Aryeh S.
on Nov 21, 2011 @ 12:14 EST5EDT