What I’m Watching: The Good Wife

The Good Wife: Season 4, Episode 11 “Boom De Yah Da” (B+)

This show truly is superb, and it’s exciting to see it return before most of the other network fare to get 2013 started off in the best way possible. The case of the week was particularly fascinating and full of twists, and I liked having Cary and Will argue it on the home front with Alicia out in Minnesota squaring off with an eternally-stalling Louis. I would have loved to see more of Susan Misner’s Simone Canning, who seems, unlike her husband, to be a genuine, good person, and I hope that she and Alicia pursue a friendship in the near future now that Louis has found a new way to exert himself and to torment Alicia and the rest of Lockhart Gardner. Deposing the housekeeper and the receptionist to prove that James Rebhorn’s Wilkes was dodging Alicia was smart, and threatening to put his disease on the record to force him into settling was equally clever, and appropriately conniving as a defense against Louis. It was nice to see Alicia and Kalinda sitting and talking again, and it’s always wonderful to hear their conversations. It’s a shame that Clarke made Diane and Will turn Cary against him, and I imagine that Clarke is going to be just as formidable an enemy for the firm as Louis will be now that they’re truly irked him. Diane’s attempted defense of Eli backfired quickly, though it’s definitely true that Wendy’s involvement is a conflict of interest. I was pleasantly surprised with T.R. Knight, who I never liked on “Grey’s Anatomy,” whose arrogant boy wonder Jordan is going to give Eli hell and garner some serious resentment for himself in the process as Eli fights to stay relevant.