Over the course of seven series,Julianna Margulies excels as Alicia Florrick, juggling single motherhood, and court cases and romanceGame of Thrones generally ends a season with the dismemberment of a much-loved principal or with a huge flotilla of CGI longboats setting sail for a dreadful war. The Good Wife doesn’t need to try so tough. The glossy legal-political potboiler’s loyal audience need nothing more than someone knocking on a door and someone else opening it to keep them onside for another year.
Such has been the staggering confidence of this Bechdel test-breezing hybrid from CBS,whose titular stand-by-your-man political spouse turned litigator has given Julianna Margulies the role of a lifetime over its seven long seasons. After 156 episodes, The Good Wife just came to a natural and satisfactory terminate (which I won’t spoil as the final series isn’t on DVD until October). But stragglers who find Law & Order too huge to contemplate may wish to catch up with the first six super-binge-friendly Good Wives.
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Source: theguardian.com