THE GOOD FIGHT
I was a fan of The Good Wife before The Good Fight. Some people didn’t like The Good Wife, but like The Good Fight. I imagine there are some people who liked The Good Wife but don’t like The Good Fight. I liked The Good Wife. I fucking love The Good Fight.
The latest episode to air on Channel 4, the penultimate episode of series 2, sees the firm’s investigator stopped for driving whilst black, leading to a wholly more underhanded plot. But it’s not just the topics that are never off the table for The Good Fight why I love it so much. Series 2 - as it should do - has improved so much on it’s first year. It has upped the stakes for all the characters as well as constantly taking notable jabs at the Commander in Chief without ever flinching. Unlike Dear White People, The Good Fight takes place in a very real version of the the real world - a bit of an oxymoron, I know, but it is still fiction after all.
There has been eleven previous episodes of this series before “Day 485”, so why am I only now talking about the fact that I’ve been watching The Good Fight, with only one episode left of series 2? Don’t get me wrong, I have loved pretty much every minute of this series, but there was something about this episode which compelled me to talk about it. The way in which this show is constructed, not just in the characters and their stories, but the way they tell their stories, the writers tell their stories, is just on another level for me at the moment. The set up, the conflict, the pay off of every episode of The Good Fight is some of the best in television right now. The conflict, oh the conflict. The way in which we get to see these lawyers and investigators rack their brains on how to solve a problem, win a case - in the directing and editing of the show too. And the cast are all brilliant at bringing these characters and cases to life. I absolutely adore when they throwback to previous episodes - and of course, sometimes even The Good Wife - and this episode had quite a few. Nothing I loved more from The Good Wife was the recurring guest lawyers and judges.
I like to write about the things I’m watching or seeing, and it’s always those ones that leave me with a visceral feeling that I want to write about most. But it is also those ones that I am so in awe of that I struggle to find the words for how I feel about them. Obviously I never really know this at the time, but I perhaps might start making a bit more of a concerted effort to figure that out.