The Good Fight ends an apocalyptic season with the whimper before a bang: EW review this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. It's a particularly inspired flight of fancy, but it serves a purpose. To relegate it to an online paid service feels like exactly like the kind of marginalization that this show is fighting against. © 2020 Collider Cryptomedia, Inc. All Rights Reserved. As to the particulars of The Good Fight, they are thus: Good Wife staple Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski) is ready to retire from the now merged firm of Lockhart, Deckler, Gussman, Lee, Lyman, Gilbert, Lurie, Kagan, Tannenbaum, and Associates, and move to the Italian countryside. Jared Leto to Return as The Joker in ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’, Why ‘Get Shorty’ Is One of the Best Crime Comedies Ever, ‘Mank’ Trailer: David Fincher’s 1930s Netflix Epic Sees Gary Oldman as a Troubled Screenwriter. Brian Neif is bad, he works for STR Laurie, and he has a personal investment in keeping Memo 618 a mystery that his bosses don’t know about. As what-if episodes go, it's an especially good one, while setting up a mystery that will drive the quirky drama through this latest run. ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ Review: Borat and Daughter Team Up to Smash the Patriarchy. The Good Fight Season 4 Episode 4, “The Gang is Satirized and Doesn’t Like It” needs an intermission more than the play everyone is so mad about does. This episode needs an intermission more than the play does. While the show occasionally veers out of its lane to register those points -- at times becoming a little too cute for its own good -- it continues to do so in a consistently thought-provoking manner. tv review Mar. Diane just gets really good sex out of it, and Liz might get sex out of it in the future. But just as she’s about to sign the papers, she finds out that, in fact, she’s broke. By Kathryn VanArendonk. It’s a fresh take on The Good Wife model, and one that puts women and minorities first. Before I get into the virtues of The Good Fight — of which there are many — I have to pause and discuss CBS’s strategy for releasing the show. What did you think of this episode of The Good Fight? And while so much feels the same, stylistically, about The Good Fight, there are a few things that feels like it’s leaning into because it’s not on CBS’s regular TV schedule, like the focus on the all-black firm and three female leads (one of whom is a lesbian, one of whom is black, and one of whom is 64 years old). He’s definitely let a piece of paper get the best of him pretty quickly. Like Alicia Florrick (who is named but will not appear in this series), Maia is an excellent lawyer, but she’s sometimes used as a pawn because of her family’s scandal. The Good Wife, though critically acclaimed, had a moderate viewership at best, and it’s unlikely that those fans will clamor to pay for a new series that is for them unproven. Our editorial content is not influenced by any commissions we receive. Leslie, Baranski, and Jumbo also do an excellent job leading the series, each providing compelling performances that feel new despite their appearances on the former show. For starters, the new boss allows dogs to run free in the halls, while their offbeat representative, Gavin Firth (John Larroquette, wonderfully weird), is somehow both strangely accommodating and almost impossible to trust. Threatening Diane through Kurt has been done before on the series. Esme’s 20 Most Influential Female TV Characters. That ranges from the media and Diane's associates nitpicking the president's accomplishments to what Trump did after the election, and closer to home, a new ripped-from-the-headlines client for Diane who, as spoilers go, is simply too good to share. It’s what made The Good Wife so, well, good — that balance of character drama and legal drama. Share your thoughts in the comments below! (CNN)Adopting an anything-goes attitude from the freedom afforded by playing on CBS All Access, "The Good Fight" returns with an audacious fourth-season premiere that considers what Hillary Clinton's election would have looked like, and the associated fallout. Read our review! There is no such thing as a bad episode of TV featuring Diane Lockhart, but The Good Fight Season 4 Episode 4, “The Gang is Satirized and Doesn’t Like It,” certainly is a long one. Top 5 Matt Damon Performances: How Do You Like Them Apples? There are many thematic parts to The Good Fight that feel like the show from which it came. It’s still a procedural, but it’s a damn fine one — one worth paying for CBS All Access, even though it deserves so much more. ‘The Good Fight’ Review: CBS’s Compelling New Legal Drama Deserves a Bigger Platform by Allison Keene February 17, 2017. As much as I like the show and the one it spun off from, I question the thinking of putting The Good Fight on CBS All Access to begin with. Neither Diane or viewers are getting answers to that question anytime soon; those scenes are a great time for a power nap. Diane is also starting down a few pegs below were she was when she was at her own firm, though not as far down as Alicia was in Season 1 of The Good Wife when she returns to law as a junior associate. He’s very attractive, but Liz better take her blinders off and recognize his photographic memory for the asset that it is. It’s so hard to care about anything related to Memo 618 anymore. Subscribe to our newsletter here! Christine Baranski in 'The Good Fight.' The first episode of The Good Fight explores the fallout from this, while also managing to sneak in a legal case. Quibi Shutting Down After Six Months — What the Hell Happened? If Reddick Boseman & Lockhart isn’t careful they’re going to get so caught up in their own issues they’ll forget that Caleb has been very open about the fact that STR Laurie sent him downstairs to spy on them. 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