CC catches us up on The Good Wife.
THE GOOD WIFE: 1.06 “Conjugal”
THE GOOD WIFE: 1.07 “Unorthodox”
Two weeks ago, I can’t remember anything exciting happening on The Good Wife other than Peter and Alicia having a conjugal visit. Of course, the previews made it seem like “holding hands” meant that they were going to get it on. But no, they slept in separate beds. The only reason a conjugal visit was necessary was because they needed a place to talk that didn’t involve a video camera or a transcript. I thought that episode was sort of slow. The case was interesting because Alicia and company managed to get a falsely accused inmate off death row, but little else of interest happened…except that Francine from Gilmore Girls now appears to be a regular.
This week, however, we had a lot more good stuff. First, the firm is doing layoffs, and everyone fears for their job. Will tells Alicia that she needs to impress Stern (the other partner that we never see) by being second chair his daughter’s civil suit so that she can be retained over Cary. Apparently, Stern’s daughter had an eruv wire outside her house that fell, and it was unable to be repaired due to the Sabbath. Alicia’s paired up with outside counsel, Ryan Alprin, who chooses to argue that Anna and her husband’s religion prevented them from making repairs. And it turns out, that said argument may have worked until it turned out that Anna wasn’t so estranged from her dad after all. She used her cell phone to call him on the Sabbath! Luckily, Alicia and Kalinda discover that the plaintiff colluded with someone at the security company to make the wire come down.
Despite laying off a bunch of attorneys, Will decides that the firm should hire Alprin and asks Kalinda to run a background check. That search yields the surprising result that Alprin’s not actually an attorney. He flunked the bar, which is tough. Since they’re about to win, Alicia makes a surprising decision (at least to Kalinda)—she’s going to make Alprin rest the defense, take a walk around the building so that they can win before she reports him to the judge. This is too bad because there was some serious flirting action going on between them. Meanwhile, Will proposes that he and Diane make moves to oust Stern from the firm to save them from laying off so many attorneys. Diane doesn’t like that idea, mainly because Stern usually votes her way at board meetings, and she needs his alliance, especially with hiring decisions. Could this mean that Alicia’s going to be out of a job? No…I really doubt it, but I’m sure the Cary vs. Alicia decision will be coming soon, and I’m going to bet someone that both are retained.
It wouldn’t be an episode of The Good Wife without some home drama which bordered on absurd this week. Alicia’s son last noticed that photos of his father smoking crack with a prostitute were photoshopped. Naturally, he decides to find the prostitute so that he can talk to her, get her to admit that it was fake, and obviously reveal her true identity. Keep dreaming, kid. Seriously. Naturally, he finds her picture online, calls it and charges it to his grandmother’s credit card, only to find out that the lady on the phone isn’t the lady in the picture. Clearly, he’s never been on match.com. Anyway, Jackie finds out and Alicia has a conniption fit on her kid because he shouldn’t be calling prostitutes.
I did feel sort of bad for her son, who’s so memorable that I can’t remember his name. He didn’t feel that he can tell his mother that he’s on a one man mission to exonerate her husband. Next week, it looks like Alicia will be testifying for Peter. I’m actually interested in seeing this, more than I have been these past couple weeks. The Peter/Alicia conflict and the economic battles of the firm are certainly better viewing than the cases lately. However, I’d be even more psyched if Alexis Bledel became a cast member (wishful thinking here…I am not reporting rumors) so that we could have a Rory/Logan reunion. ‘Til Tuesday!
Rory, Logan, and Francine on the same show! Crazy!
My husband works at Tamms. None of the pictures or rooms that he is supposedly in at the facility are even close. I think that they should be a little more realistic. It is prison for goodness sake! one of the rooms he is in has beautiful woodwork. Can we get real here? The conjugal visit scene was a big joke.