I think it’s a very muscular show, it’s very cynical, very knowing. I kinda sorta “spoiled” in my review. At least Alicia should have known what she was playing with. Stanley's wife is an unseen character and supposedly Stanley's wife. Those are two different things with two different meanings, but to “The Good Wife,” clarifying that characterization just didn’t matter. That is not an insult. (And the similarity in their names, Joan and Joe, is not a coincidence.). I find myself doing this sometimes, and I’m sure my husband does too! Let’s do an episode about BitCoin. Not at all. I agree that there are unhappy husbands, but they were not portrayed in this novel. She’d cut herself off from Diane, Peter and pretty much everyone else in her orbit, and Jason was nowhere to be seen. And we had always had on our whiteboard, about the ending, the word “SLAP.” And it was, “OK, are we still sure of this?” It was a conversation that went all over the map. Some people are able to make the choice …on others choice is thrust by circumstances /society! © Copyright 2020 Variety Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. They divorced messily, and she went on to a career or her own. The fact that she keeps the secret in the end says a lot about her, doesn’t it? In the same way, with old friends you start talking if you haven’t seen each other in a long time as though no one time has passed, that’s what it was like watching the two of them together again. This message bothered me, but it also rings true. I think someone could look objectively at the situation, especially a lawyer, and say, “wait a minute, Diane, you’re overreacting. At first I was puzzled by her tolerance of it, and then I realized what was really going on, that Joan was not his muse but his actual writer. I am more of an academic writer than a creative one. That is not only profoundly. Every time I read one of your Literary Wives reviews I think of a book I reviewed back in May of 2014, “The Headmaster’s Wife,” by Thomas Christopher Green. It made me wonder what I would do in the same situation. The other possible end had her running after a guy, falling into the arms of a guy, the usual running to the airport scene. Contentment & peaceful joy are much more permanent and stable marriage goals. We’re sorry if anybody’s thrown by this, but we do think it will be more resonant for the show in the rearview mirror. I began this novel with a sigh. Thanks! I don’t think she was planning to. In real life, there is more to the story! But it’s also interesting to compare that to the way I felt about Gil in Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller (which I read around the same time). When can we read it?” Having said that I always look forward to your posts and can see the great role you, and others, are playing for the voice of women in literature and in authoring such texts. But it would appear that to the show, it doesn’t matter whether Diane comes off an unreasonable, vengeful person or a very hurt spouse. And it’s harder with other directors because you have something in your mind’s eye that you want to communicate. Suddenly we’d do an episode that’s completely in Alicia’s mind. During these last couple of seasons, which weren’t quite at the level of the first five often great years, it gave us a show about an interesting woman who found herself in a lot of different kinds of legal, moral and ethical situations. His reasoning was that wives are caring and do so much, but husbands only give advice and try to apply logical force to every situation. Literally anything would have been more fun than this old case that we were supposed to care about a lot but had very little to do with anything of current relevance to the show’s universe. Did we feel that she would try getting her own work published or did it seem as if she wouldn’t try? Maybe that’s what she decided. “The Good Wife” wanted to assert that, in the end, Alicia Florrick was completely alone. This finale came down forcefully on one of those sides, and by in doing so in a sloppy, rushed and inconsistent fashion, it wasted a lot of the goodwill the show had accrued over time. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. And we saw Alicia watch Diane and Kurt McVeigh huddling and kissing, and her jealousy in many ways of their relationship. So, all this was done for Peter? She self sacrifices and tells the biographer that she did no such work. But she didn’t. It needed to lead up to that moment for at least a few seasons. Does Alicia end up in politics or back at the law firm? We’re trying to do some of that in “Brain Dead.” It’s harder with a comedy because comedy is built around dialogue. It could be because Joan seemed more content with her marriage than Gil’s wife did – she was pretty miserable. Maybe he’d be around, maybe he wouldn’t: We didn’t deserve to know. This message bothered me, but it also rings true. She puts up with his infidelity. How true as I was a coed in 1958 at U of D in Detroit . CRPF personnel in Jammu shoots dead wife before ending own life According to police, the CRPF man shot dead his wife in a fit of rage and also injured her sister besides firing shots at his minor daughter, who escaped unhurt. I wonder if that had something to do with it as well. In any event, in the finale’s closing moments, Alicia betrayed her closest work colleague and in doing so, blew up her job and a substantial part of her future. I have felt this way at times. That case Matthew Morrison’s character brought in these last few weeks became the Thing that Ate Cleveland, and the best part of it was the weird lawyer with the dog, but he’s been gone for a while. Change ). I wanted her to, but it did feel like a huge betrayal, not that Joe was without fault. Weigh in below. So absent that, yes. I wanted her to break free and speak out. Jason was the opposite. After reading the first few pages, I thought, “Not another novel written from a female perspective that is all about how important her husband is.” I wanted to read something about an actual wife, not a wife just telling us about her husband. I realized that the ending of the book is authentic because of her reaction, her willingness to keep the secret. I think the biggest thing is try to be more cinematic. She finds it humiliating. It seems that at times she wants some of the credit, or she at least wants him to not be so puffed up about his success. It sounds like “The Wife” was coming from that perspective of that time. “The Good Wife” is probably best for the irony of the show but I also think it has kept some of the male audience away. Robert: I think that’s something that’s building over seven seasons. There are unhappy husbands too. This was a fun read, and I was torn when she threatened to reveal the secret. I think the slap has woken her up to the collateral damage she’s causing in her life. We don’t live our lives in a vacuum, so we must take into account what make be lurking in the background of not only spoken, but also unspoken conditioning. TV The Good Wife. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. “The Good Wife” could be daring and risk-taking in some of the subject matters and topics it took on. And, honestly, I think I would have done the same. I think movies in trying to be more of a spectacle have lost their cinematic bones and they haven’t really stretched themselves cinematically. What did you think of “The Good Wife” finale? Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC. Robert: He came to the set a little nervous. I tried not to give away the ending, too, while recognizing that this made my comments a little more mysterious. Why was so much of the finale about Peter and his convoluted case, anyway? It’s a good film with a fascinating story. The Good Wife Bosses Explain the Series Finale Ending Slap and Betrayal Robert and Michelle King break down the big moments. Maybe her façade of Joe is the best hope she has for literary success? But at the last minute, it lost faith in itself and became dismissive about the world it had created and the audience it had cultivated, just to chase some extremely debatable ideas about what constitutes “great” TV. And yes, I spoil. The difficulty we had that was that everything that was tempting to do was tempting to do in a way that undercut the seven seasons of the show. He’s this romantic figure in her mind who she can manipulate and be a dream character in any way she wants. Retired with pension and IRA and more importantly self satisfaction and at age 80 still recording secretary for local chapter of Daughters of American Revolution and Michigan Assn of Retired School Personnel (in shorthand). Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. I hope you like the book! During the past few seasons, “The Good Wife” has poked fun at Prestige Drama cliches by giving viewers scenes of Alicia watching a pretentious show called “Darkness at Noon.” Viewers could debate which overwrought drama “The Good Wife” was making fun of — maybe it was “Low Winter Sun,” perhaps it was the second season of “True Detective,” or maybe the mockery was targeting another ambitious drama that took itself far too seriously.

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