What I’m Watching: The Good Wife

The Good Wife: Season 6, Episode 5 “Shiny Objects” (B-)

This episode achieved the remarkable feat of featuring multiple plotlines, and that’s about all that elevated it above the quality of recent episodes. All of a sudden, Alicia and Finn are best friends again, and the fact that Alicia doesn’t want to betray the kindness of her friend by having him not introduce her ended up revitalizing Alicia’s campaign and forcing Peter’s hand as Alicia let him have it for not standing by her after she stood by him so many times. As expected, the photo op resulted in side-by-side comparisons with Alicia standing next to her husband when he gave his big speech, something that should work out favorably for her in the end. This Trojan Ware thing didn’t end up being too problematic for Florrick Agos thanks to the hard work of Kalinda in fighting it, and instead it seems to have presented quite the opportunity for Diane, who got a friendly reminder from a very bitter David Lee that she still holds the lease for the offices presently inhabited by Lockhart Gardner. Seizing the space for her new firm seems like an endless lawsuit waiting to happen, but I’m sure that wouldn’t surprise for this show. Kalinda toying with another law enforcement ex-girlfriend to get information was nothing new, and it just demonstrates how little she values emotion, as she was talking to Cary about coming over later while in bed with Lana. Elsbeth’s return was hardly worth it, as Alicia managed to easily distract her and it all didn’t matter anyway since Kyle MacLachlan’s Josh Perotti showed up to disrupt the whole thing.