What I’m Watching: The Good Wife

The Good Wife: Season 5, Episode 9 “Whack-a-mole” (B+)

This episode’s title was wholly appropriate, as said multiple times by Cary, Alicia, and Jeffrey Tambor’s eternally sarcastic judge. Haaz Sleiman, recently seen on “Covert Affairs” and memorable to me for one of his debut roles, in “The Visitor,” was Zayeed, the author suspected of being a terrorist bomber by the FBI whose life and career were continuously being ruined by new threads on the website that Will found it too irresistible not to represent. There’s been a lot of scrambling lately on the part of this new firm, but they’re doing quite commendably given that the odds really are stacked against them. There’s no denying that Damian Boyle is an intriguing new character who is going to shake things up, brought in by Will and able to win David over quickly, but set on alienating both Diane, however unintentionally, and Kalinda, through directed efforts at making her job more difficult. After having major roles on three different shows on three different networks in the past five years, Jason O’Mara, using his native Irish accent for once, is opting to stick with his previous affiliate, CBS, and he’s sure to leave quite an impression in what I imagine will be an arc of decent length. There never seems to be a shortage of things for Jackie and Eli to fight about, and this one was a rare opportunity for her to make it personal and to come out ahead of Eli, ready to use truly subversive tactics to make sure she got her way.