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okay what’s up with the good wife out of all the media you reblog this is the most random one ?
it's not RANDOM omg that is a top three rewatch show to me... I love my silly little lawyers.... perfect mix of fun week to week cases, excellent side characters, interpersonal mess between the main cast, plus all the ways they'd imaginatively tackle Current Events. the good fight had a similar appeal - minus the focus on week to week cases and plus far more explicit politics. didn't always work, but it's one of those shows where I just kind of appreciated how willing they were to take a swing at it and get a bit weird about it. even in the good wife, they had so many Good Bits... the nsa agents who were super invested in the main cast's relationships, the liberal judge with all his Causes, the wife killer, LOUIS CANNING!! obviously, the 'in your opinion' lady, the google guy... also this is from the good fight but the federal investigator lady who always had the birds fly against her office window was a+ plus, it's such a dumb bit but it got me every time as a great appreciator of dumb bits. such a corny pair of shows that are very much like,, About Liberalism and a reckoning with that entire era of american life from an unabashedly liberal perspective, with all the inherent pitfalls and shortcomings of that pov... but does consistently manage to do interesting stuff with that starting point. a lawyer show that's also a bit of an autopsy of a mostly dead vision of america, kinda all you need sometimes
and I love alicia and will, my tragic heterosexuals!! the forbidden love of it all!! I love how cruel and selfish alicia was a lot of the time and how she's mostly in control of that relationship even though will SHOULD be the one in the position of power, how she's constantly using him and then pushing him away while will is so obviously besotted, how she simply keeps finding excuses to stop herself from being happy... does she even love him at all or does she just like him in theory, does she just want to be desired... how they always have 'bad timing' and just cannot figure their shit out... "it's romantic because it didn't happen".... "my plan is I love you" the unapologetic melodrama of it all!! the deleted voice message is?? crazy?? (eli goated character btw, the cheese lobby episode is still one of my favourite episodes of anything ever.) that lift scene is peak romance... when she leaves the firm and he feels so betrayed... his tantrum!! "I took you in when nobody wanted you"!! "you were POISON"!! "you're awful and you don't even know how awful you are"!! he's so pathetic and angry for half a season that he's resorting to just arguing with her in his head!!! always with their failed communications via phone and lift doors and loaded gazes across office spaces and delicate finger touches... the romance of it all, how they really could have worked but it's also so glaringly obvious why they kept falling apart... in the end all these repressed losers create their own misery... elite
#i know it may sometimes not seem like that on tumblr dot com but i do occasionally engage with cultural properties that aren't anime#we have the dvd boxsets back home and invariably when my mum and i can't think of a show to watch together#we fall back on 'hey let's rewatch some good wife episodes'#anyway my mum is right there with me on the 'oh my GOD leave your shitty husband' train. her kids would've been better off!!#big show for mother daughter relationships that are in enlightened agreement on the 'sometimes parents separating is Good Actually' issue#if i were the florrick children i would have simply never spoken to peter again. rip to them but i'm different#//#batsplat responds#simmering heterosexual tension for four and a half seasons only for it all to end in tragedy... that's what it's all about#also obviously kalinda was just fully in love with alicia. like that's just canon#i love rotating will/alicia/kalinda around in my head. in a very odd way i guess i do similar things to it as with faith/buffy/spike#to me the perfect dynamic is tragic heterosexual pairing + obsessive lesbian angle. god knows why. nobody psychoanalyse this#will performs such a shallow version of masculinity while being narratively so thoroughly emasculated... relatable icon#constantly doing his sad wet eyes at alicia oh he'd do anything for that lady... i get him i fear#oh to be a corrupt dirtbag lawyer who will do anything to get the unhappily married love of his life back into his world
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