What I’m Watching: The Good Wife

The Good Wife: Season 5, Episode 20 “The Deep Web” (B)

This wasn’t the show’s most inviting installment, mainly because not much happened and all the women on the show took center stage, which is usually a great thing but wasn’t as enticing as usual. Alicia having jury duty, from which she was obviously excused as soon as she stated both her profession and her name, was a good excuse for Cary to make her take a day off, though it’s puzzling that in the current competitive landscape in which their new firm exists that there would be time to be able to play hooky from work purely for the sake of relaxation. Nestor Carbonell's flirtatious juror is somewhat intriguing, but I suspect Alicia won't allow such an indiscretion. Diane discovering, with Kalinda’s assistance, that her client was lying to her and was quite likely guilty, was an unfortunate wake-up call that she might be sleepwalking through her work, but it’s something that could have happened to anyone since she was just trying to help out a friend. Realizing that David and Louis were conspiring to steal her clients was far more crucial, and the news that Louis is both dying and trying to screw her over is certainly interesting. I rarely comment on it, but there’s something about this show’s music that really defines it and makes it an eternally entertaining and operatic drama. On the male side of things, Eli did his very best to make the likeable but stiff Finn come out of his shell, and, despite his best efforts, Finn might just turn into the politically competent candidate Eli wants him to be.