What I’m Watching: The Good Wife

The Good Wife: Season 4, Episode 14 “Red Team/Blue Team” (B+)

After such financial misfortune for a while, it’s startling to see the firm in good fiscal shape, suddenly cognizant of the fact that it doesn’t have to award the partnerships it had offered to the fourth-years. Expectedly, that didn’t go over well with Alicia, Cary, and the others, and it was great to see them band together to concoct a plan to intimidate the partners into acquiescing to their demands. David Lee offering the partnership to Alicia with a considerable lack of empathy was cruel but, as always, quite entertaining. Having Alicia and Cary play opposing counsel opposite Will and Diane in the mock trial was perfectly-timed, and it was a lot to fun to see them go at it with Jerry Adler’s disinterested Howard preside over the trial with considerable bias. On the guest star front, Colm Feore was the cold, easily angered head of the company that made Thief, and Raphael Sbarge, recently seen as Jimminy Cricket on “Once Upon a Time,” as his legal counsel. I was thrilled to see Kyle MachLachlan as Elsbeth’s new nemesis and potential beau, who got quickly tricked by some conniving plotting to send Eli in wearing a wire to get Hamish Linklater’s David Laguardia to admit the illegality of their operation. Will and Alicia’s relationship is a thing of the past, and their heat-of-the-moment kiss was passionate but apparently something that they want to keep as a memory, agreeing not to be together in private and to continue to keep their relationship strictly professional.