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Infamy
Original Air Date: Jan 5, 2010
Patricia Morris Buckley — Staff Writer
pmb@thetwocentscorp.com
What I’ve always liked about The Good Wife is that it usually feels fresh. The cases have fun twists and while it adheres to a traditional law show format, it doesn’t feel rehashed.
That is, until this episode.
“Infamy” is an episode that could have easily been on any other law show. In fact, it felt like I’d seen it before. The case was extremely predictable. Man takes on a wild TV host, Duke Rosco, who claimed his wife murdered their missing child — so much so that it drove the wife to commit suicide. The network wants to settle quietly (and the network’s lawyer wants to play doctor with Will) but Duke won’t have it — he’s sure he’s right.
So Alicia has to find some evidence that Duke didn’t get the facts correct. She does. But that’s expected by now. And the happy ending of finding the child also felt way too pat. Predictable. I may be overusing the word, but it fits.
There is a little movement forward with the characters, but it was obvious the actors didn’t have much to play with. Alicia is also called in to help with the divorce case of Marie Browning, only to learn later that Marie’s husband is Glenn Childs — the new state district attorney and the man who put Peter behind bars.
Childs retaliates what he sees as Alicia’s attack by putting Peter back in the general population at jail. But we know that Marie is just using Alicia to get to Childs and even threatens to tell Alicia info that her husband has on Peter unless she gets her pre-nup put aside.
One moment I liked was just before Marie signs the divorce papers that demand she never again say anything else about Childs’ work. She gives Alicia a clue to help Peter: Triton Fields, which Peter says is a housing development. It’s one tiny twist in a very predictable script.
Throughout the show the theme is about the flexibility of truth and how it becomes different things to different people. And the truth about Peter’s guilt has never been more elusive.
Hopefully, that freshness we expect from The Good Wife will return next week. That would be predictable, but good as well.
Is Peter innocent after all? Should the kids tell Alicia about the packets Childs has dropped off at their door? Is Will really in love with Alicia? Give us your Two Cents…
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Speaking of predictable, it would be so predictable if Will had a thing for Alicia.
I have always liked the fact that “The Good Wife” while political wasn’t so focused on that aspect. As a conservative viewer I found it extremely appalling that the character of Duke Roscoe was so Glenn Beck-ish. Specifically when the “storyline” was a headline ripped off of Nancy Grace. I’m frusturated with conservative views and stances always being the punching bag on television shows. There was no need to have a storyline of this nature and to have the producers, creators and writers or whathaveyou impregnate this show with their political ideals. I want to be able to watch a show on television and not have my views attacked for it.
Why DID Glenn Childs drop all those packages off – especially the ones with the pictures that Zach discovered were doctored…Is Childs the puppeteer here or is there someone else behind all this?
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