Season seven of The Good Wife has come to an end. And what an end it was.
Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) has been through a lot this season, not unlike any other seasons prior to this one, but there was something about the struggles of wisdom and regaining independence that made it stick more.
For the last couple of episodes Alicia has been thrown in that all too familiar scenario of standing by her husband, Peter Florrick (Chris Noth), while he got prosecuted for having tampered with evidence while he was district attorney. What's different in this situation, from all the other times Alicia has stood by her cheating, lying husband is that she is now in a relationship - granted a pretty ambiguous one - with another man (Jason played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan), plus she has developed a new layer of maturity and wisdom that allows Peter to be in her life without emotional damage. If there are different stages of womanhood one reaches throughout their lifetime, Alicia has surpassed one important milestone. Not only did she decide to not stay married to Peter, but she also became partner at her old firm. If she's going to stay partner, however, that remains to be seen. The finale ends on a pretty brutal note with Diane slapping Alicia for having crossed the boundary of making Diane's husband look bad in front of a jury just to save her own. There you have it. Not the big Alicia-Jason finale, but one big slap from a woman that was suppose to be Alicia's new ally on this new professional path.
"The Good Wife can’t give me that swoon-y Alicia-Jason romance and then expect me to not want her to smooch Jason one more time. Am I made of stone? One moment from “End” gives me hope for Jason and Alicia’s future: The way he looked at Alicia longingly and lovingly, just before they walked into Cary’s classroom. That was the look of someone who is deeply in love. Somewhere, that tall drink of man is waiting for Alicia, as she asked him to, and as far as I’m concerned, at this moment, they’re in bed right now, sated in all kinds of ways and destroying a really good bottle of tequila. [...] The one thing that will never sit right with me about The Good Wife is the slap that Diane (Christine Baranski) administered to Alicia. This is not about whether Alicia deserved it; anyone who broke up the Diane-Kurt marriage, as Alicia probably did, deserved some kind of retribution. Physical violence is never the answer, unless you’re Diane in that moment, and even the most committed Buddhists would have a hard time saying they didn’t get it." (Variety)
"Turning the lights out on a successful TV show can be a financial bummer for a network, but the last flicker often brings one final advertising boon. Series finales, especially those that service a particularly engaged or well-to-do audience (i.e., CBS' The Good Wife) remain one of the few DVR-proof draws in the era of withering linear viewing. The Good Wife ended its seven-season run May 8 with roughly three months of lead time; CBS announced the wrap-up to its Emmy-winning drama during a Super Bowl commercial. The relatively short heads-up meant that many ads already had been sold during the 2015 upfront market, though some spots still were available at a premium, less than $250,000, say sources, but well north of the season's $100,000 average, according to Kantar Media. Spots that aired during the telecast included luxury auto (Jaguar), talent tie-ins (a Chase ad voiced by Good Wife star Julianna Margulies) and several film trailers (DreamWorks' The Girl on the Train)." (The Hollywood Reporter)
Variety sources say CBS is in final negotiations to set up a spinoff of The Good Wife focusing on Christine Baranski's Diane Lockhart character that would air on CBS All Access. That doesn't sound half bad to me.
Actress Cush Jumbo, who joined the cast in the show’s seventh and final season, is also expected to star in the spinoff. Sources cautioned that the deal is still in negotiations for a straight-to-series order and may not come to fruition. The Good Wife co-creators/exec producers Robert and Michelle King would likely co-write the project with another Good Wife alum. The pair would be exec producers but not serve as showrunners.
The series closer generated much discussion about the fate of its central characters and the denouement between Baranski’s Lockhart and Julianna Margulies’ Alicia Florrick. Jumbo, a British actress known for her work on stage and in the U.K. series Torchwood, signed on at the start of the final season, playing a sharp, no-nonsense attorney who became a friend and confidant of Florrick.
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