I recapped the latest episode of “The Good Wife” for TV Eskimo
(tveskimo.com), a web site that keeps up with a variety of television
episodes. You can look at it here – it’s short.
Too often I’m mired in politics, so I thought
some TV talk would get my mind out of that gutter. Have I mixed metaphors there? “Mired?” Stuck
in mud. “Gutter?” That can mean a lot of
things (including those attractive pits where my ball tends to go in the
bowling alley).
I was an early fan of “The Good Wife” and watched it for a
couple of seasons fairly often. Then I stopped watching it regularly and began
watching it only occasionally when I thought it wondered off the intensity it
began with. I’m sure it’s very hard to
keep up the intensity after seven seasons so I’m not complaining – just that I
have certain expectations. But someone
among the writers for the show this seasons must have decided “let’s get back
to serious business” even though “serious business” must be dumbed down a bit
to retain part of the audience. But I
think most every episode, even the worst of them, has been far above the heads
of an audience which might watch….say…. “Jackass?”
Every series episode will have one or more legal issues to
provide food for thought as well as comic entertainment. The entertainment/comedy
portion of this ep was about a segment of the attorney population called “bar
attorneys.” It was funny – the lawyers bartered over clients by the pound (yes,
body weight). The deeply philosophical
and intensely legal segment had to do with doctor assisted suicide. Not fun, but interesting arguments presented
from both sides.
So I’m back to watching it. The acting is always good. The
writers are always too clever by half.
And hell! What else is happening on a Sunday night in Peoria? (I’m not really in Peoria, I’m in my own
private Idaho) My other great TV (and
real life) passion is boxing. If some enterprising entrepreneur would put
boxing on Sunday nights – I would have a real dilemma.
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