I have been watching The Good Fight since it's spin-off from The Good Wife. I watched it also and loved it. Followed Christine Baranski right to The Good Fight. She certainly could carry this show with no problem but it was good to see Sarah Steele and Nyambi Nyambi. These folks seem to blend well together on the small screen. I would love to see Cush Jumbo as a regular, but Audra McDonald is a great addition to the cast. (I actually saw Audra McDonald perform a one-woman show on Broadway as Billie Holiday - fantastic performance). I agree the writers can get w-a-y left-leaning, but they did throw in a staunch right-winger played by Gary Cole. The dialogue is well written & delivered. Some outright humorous & some meant to be humorous, depending on what side of the ballot you push. If you can handle the overtly elephant-party bashing & comments and just watch it for the value of good actors doing their jobs and delivering good performances - then this show is a good one. If not, skip it - your head will explode.
Full Disclosure - - This series' storylines are mostly contradictions to my thoughts on many real world topics. Not all, but most. So why do I, every week, use an hour of my time to watch it, you might ask! Well, I am level-headed and secure in my thoughts and convictions. There is nothing a group of people who are getting paid to pretend to be something they are not, purely for entertainment purposes, can change my mind about. I enjoy their work as actors, therefore, I tune in and get entertained. Unlike many folks of a different mindset, I do not feel that if I don't agree with a message being broadcast by a TV series, then no one should be able to hear/see it. I simply turn the channel. I have learned in my old age there are people who can't seem to do this.
I loved the Good Wife so naturally was excited to hear this show was following on from that. Particularly considering some of the characters would be ported over. (I absolutely love David Lee :laughing: Kudos to Zach Grenier who plays the part perfectly.)
Seasons 1 and 2 were excellent, 3 and 4 were far too quirky for my liking and the overly political storylines and anti Trump messages were sickening. I'm in the UK so wasn't particularly affected by them tbf. Season 5 however just grates on me constantly. Wackner's daft court started out OKish but by episode 5 was just too ridiculous.
My main problem though is the return to the talk of a "black only firm". I'm not a racist or a bigot so there is no agenda here. How on earth is it OK to keep referring to this "black only firm" and sell the story of an issue because Diane is white and is therefore wrong to be a Named Partner of said "black only firm"? I can only imaging the outcry if the storyline was flipped and it was about a white only firm. To me that whole storyline is racist itself and I'm astounded that it's even allowed. To compound this we also had the case in Wackner's court about the use of the word "niggardly". Obviously this was used in a racist context in the show.
It's all leaving me with a nasty taste in my mouth. I'll finish season 5 as there are only a few episodes left but will probably stop there and not bother with a season 6 and beyond if they are made.
Sad to see a sequel show that I originally loved (and considered as good as the original show) lose it's way so badly and incredulous that it is allowed to push such political and racial agendas to it's audience.
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I just finished the season 5 finale. What the hell did I just watch? A total piece of crap with all the spin off community courts and people getting locked up in cellar prison cells! Just absolute rubbish. That's me done with this show. :laughing:
Review by TriseultBlockedParent2019-09-03T07:12:00Z
I was a big fan of The Good Wife and I loved the first two seasons of The Good Fight, but holy hell did it go to shit in the third season.
Let me preface by saying I'm a progressive and a staunch feminist. That being said, I still found season 3 unbearable. It's pandering, plain and simple: while The Good Wife regularly plundered the headlines and wore its politics on its sleeve, it still tried to tell a compelling story and presented its ideas in a nuanced manner. The character of Kurt, for instance, was created specifically to represent a more conservative point of view and present a foil for Diane's progressive views. In so doing, it gave us fantastic character drama.
Well, all that is gone in season 3. Now we get flashes of Eric and Don Junior as Diane throws axes to relieve her utter hatred of the Trump Administration. We get Diane arguing with a Trump-shaped bruise on her husband's shoulder, lamenting "Where did the men go wrong." We get Schoolhouse Rock-like interjections featuring shitty music that wink so hard at the audience that the writers must have sprained their eyelids writing them.
Again, my problem isn't with the show's political views. It's with the inane manner in which they've abandoned all objectivity and nuance to give us a bizarre, one-sided revenge fantasy where Diane rages on and on about Trump's existence. It's entertainment for the liberal echo chamber, not a clever discourse on modern politics.
And meanwhile, the characters have devolved into caricatures. If you liked how The Good Wife featured quasi-realistic courtroom drama, tough luck, the courtroom action no longer makes any damn sense.
And so I'm out. Although the first two seasons made it feel like The Good Wife could go on forever, I guess this is the moment I have to say goodbye. You folks had a good run, but somewhere along the way you bought your own cleverness and forgot to tell a gripping drama.