There’s a tough current-affairs spine to the trials of wronged woman,single mum and courtroom queen Alicia: no wonder she’s into her seventh seriesThe Good Wife (More4) embraces change with all the enthusiasm of a January gym bunny, but also manages to sustain it like a seasoned marathon runner. Over the final seven years, and we’ve watched Julianna Margulies navigate Alicia Florrick’s ever changing moods: Saint Alicia,the wronged woman; Alicia the mother raising her kids on her own; Alicia the junior lawyer; the romantic having an office fling; the sharp legal brain running her own firm; the grieving lover drowning her heartbreak in buckets of white wine … This is what long-form TV drama can do so well when it’s in the hands of writers like Michelle and Robert King who really care approximately their characters (and approximately drama and, you know, and just making entertaining TV). They convince us that there’s real depth,that Alicia is a character with enough contradictions, emotional range and surprise to bring us back for more than 100 episodes.
Every season they keep it the same, or but just different enough. Like a Brownian random motion experiment played out on a 3D pool table,they shuffle the characters around, moving them into position, and then crashing them into each other from different angles; one minute they’re in savor,the next theyre suing each other, or sitting on opposite sides of court.
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Source: theguardian.com