What I’m Watching: The Good Wife

The Good Wife: Season 3, Episode 13 “Bitcoin For Dummies” (B+)

What a fun and complex episode this was, weaving a multi-pronged mystery with Kalinda at its heart and embellishing the case against Will, which took a major negative turn in this hour. Having Bob Balaban back as humorless treasury agent Gordon Higgs was a great start, and the superb casting didn’t stop there, with Jason Biggs as Mr. Bitcoin’s lawyer and Jennifer Ferrin from “The Cape” as Elaine Middleton, one of Kalinda’s prime suspects to be Mr. Bitcoin. I enjoyed her investigation into his identity, concluding different things at various points throughout the episode and then ultimately reaching the conclusion that it was all three of them. Wendy tasking Dana with cultivating her asset is troubling, especially since what Dana initially presents Kalinda with scares her enough to give over the potentially damaging information on Will to spare Alicia. Will does seem to be getting quite nervous about his fate, and Elsbeth’s wacky ways won’t be able to hold off Kalinda, Cary, and Dana for long. The subplot involving Nisa had some unexpected and unusual depth, as both Alicia and Jackie delivered nearly the exact same speech to Zach about his relationship, with one crucial difference. Finding out that Jackie told Zach to cut ties with Nisa because she went to public school and he went to private school was enough to inspire Alicia to change her mind, because there’s nothing quite like pissing off Jackie that makes her happy. This has to be the first truly positive use of Zach since Glen Childs was still in the race.