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Lesson learned on this week’s The Good Wife: pay more attention to the lyrics of that song you love on the radio. Apparently it could have been written by a crazy person about the rape/murder he committed a few decades ago. At least that is what I took away from one my favorite “case of the week” story lines this show has come up with.
Just like every week, the main case only makes up about one-third of the episode. The other two stories this week dealt with Wendy Scott-Carr’s former nanny, Natalie, whom Eli exposed as an illegal immigrant and, of course, the slow building fallout to Blake’s reveal that Kalinda slept with Peter.
Eli, Natalie and Diane: Sometimes it is easy to forget that Eli Gold has kids of his own. He spends so much time trying to manage the Florrick children and all of their friends. But this week we were reminded of his daughter, Marissa (Sarah Steele). She spent some time visiting at the campaign office flipping through the TV stations. She watched the coverage of Colorado Congressman Timmerman’s affair (they are the new Florricks), which outraged her. Later, Natalie’s (America Ferrera) face flashes across the screen as the news discusses her immigration issues. Marissa points out that Eli likes her, but he denies it. Not very well, though. So cute. Feelings of guilt overwhelm (as they should) and he goes to Diane for help.CREEPY KILLER/SONGWRITER: Our case of the week starts out with the release of Bowes – a man who raped and murdered woman, but was found to be insane. An expert witness deemed him healthy now, so out into the world he goes. (Side note – Bowes is played by Sam Robards, who clearly had a lot of fun playing a very creepy man. Most recently he has been playing Howie “The Captain” Archibald on Gossip Girl. The Captain has been working for Russell Thorpe who was played by Michael Boatman. Boatman also plays Julius on
The Good Wife but was nowhere to be seen this week.The episode ends on such a bittersweet note. Alicia is making dinner (not really, it was pizza. NY style by the way. Hope the press doesn’t get wind of that! How is Peter going to win in Chicago if he is eating NY style pizza??) and the kids are quoting Llamas with Hats (NSFW, btw). When they call Peter in for dinner he is on the phone with Brody, agreeing that if he wins he will keep Brody on. The tortured look on Peter’s face when he walks in on his happy family, well…. like I said, bittersweet. Finally his family is back to normal and now he is just hiding more secrets.
Next week: Michael J Fox is back! Other stuff happens too.
Lesson learned on this week’s The Good Wife: pay more attention to the lyrics of that song you love on the radio. Apparently it could have been written by a crazy person about the rape/murder he committed a few decades ago. At least that is what I took away from one my favorite “case of the week” story lines this show has come up with.
Just like every week, the main case only makes up about one-third of the episode. The other two stories this week dealt with Wendy Scott-Carr’s former nanny, Natalie, whom Eli exposed as an illegal immigrant and, of course, the slow building fallout to Blake’s reveal that Kalinda slept with Peter.
Eli, Natalie and Diane: Sometimes it is easy to forget that Eli Gold has kids of his own. He spends so much time trying to manage the Florrick children and all of their friends. But this week we were reminded of his daughter, Marissa (Sarah Steele). She spent some time visiting at the campaign office flipping through the TV stations. She watched the coverage of Colorado Congressman Timmerman’s affair (they are the new Florricks), which outraged her. Later, Natalie’s (America Ferrera) face flashes across the screen as the news discusses her immigration issues. Marissa points out that Eli likes her, but he denies it. Not very well, though. So cute. Feelings of guilt overwhelm (as they should) and he goes to Diane for help.CREEPY KILLER/SONGWRITER: Our case of the week starts out with the release of Bowes – a man who raped and murdered woman, but was found to be insane. An expert witness deemed him healthy now, so out into the world he goes. (Side note – Bowes is played by Sam Robards, who clearly had a lot of fun playing a very creepy man. Most recently he has been playing Howie “The Captain” Archibald on Gossip Girl. The Captain has been working for Russell Thorpe who was played by Michael Boatman. Boatman also plays Julius on
The Good Wife but was nowhere to be seen this week.The episode ends on such a bittersweet note. Alicia is making dinner (not really, it was pizza. NY style by the way. Hope the press doesn’t get wind of that! How is Peter going to win in Chicago if he is eating NY style pizza??) and the kids are quoting Llamas with Hats (NSFW, btw). When they call Peter in for dinner he is on the phone with Brody, agreeing that if he wins he will keep Brody on. The tortured look on Peter’s face when he walks in on his happy family, well…. like I said, bittersweet. Finally his family is back to normal and now he is just hiding more secrets.
Next week: Michael J Fox is back! Other stuff happens too.
