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Josh Charles Discusses The Good Wife and Golden Globes
The supporting actor/actress TV categories at the Golden Globes include comedy, drama, mini-series and TV movie. This is a lot of different types of shows to cover and it often resembles a strange mix...
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The Good Wife Costuming: Alicia Plays Mind Games and Diane Lockhart’s Power...
The power plays continue between Alicia and Will on The Good Wife with costuming playing a role once again in perception. Instead of using clothing as a sign that memory differs from person to person...
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The Good Wife: What We Wear and How We Are Perceived
Presentation and perception are at the heart of The Good Wife – it all started with a woman standing beside her disgraced husband with the media and public making all kinds of judgement calls. Alicia...
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Wishful Thinking and Voicemails on The Good Wife
At the start of season 2 of The Good Wife Will left two voicemails for Alicia; one told her to forget his declaration of love that ended season 1. The second retracted this and instead reiterated his...
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The Good Wife, Grief and “Are You OK?”
There are three women who have been deeply impacted by the recent tragic events on The Good Wife and each of them have their own battles to fight as they try and work through their grief. The episode...
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The Good Wife and Getting out of Bed
“Is she still in bed?” The NSA dudes have been playing the role of chorus on The Good Wife as they have knowledge of pretty much everything that has been going on and while they have been off the mark...
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Distraction and Memory on The Good Wife
Alicia is keeping busy on The Good Wife and the opening sequence in “Tying the Knot” shows her juggling work, family and Finn continuing scapegoat status. The work aspect includes one the most tricksy...
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The Good Wife, Identity and What it Means to be Good
The word is in the title and question of ethics and morality have been at the center of both The Good Wife and who Alicia Florrick is since the pilot. The moral grey area has expanded with each season...
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The Good Wife, Boundaries and Changing the Rules
Boundaries are important and these have shifted this season on The Good Wife; relationships are not what they were and the rules have been redefined. Loyalties changed, first when Alicia and Cary...
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Betrayal, Privacy and Corruption on the Season 5 Finale of The Good Wife
Season 5 of The Good Wife has focused on the idea of starting anew and it has been a decision both thrust upon characters unwillingly and with careful plotting. Betrayal and corruption are in the DNA...
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The Good Wife and the Saint Alicia Brand
The Good Wife kicks off the new season with yet another surprising move and while it might not elicit the same heart getting ripped out of your chest feelings as the Will twist did, it still packs a...
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The Wish List: Robyn’s Star Sweater on The Good Wife
Diane Lockhart is the character whose impeccable style I am in awe of, when in reality Robyn is far closer to how I actually dress. Not that this is a bad thing; Robyn is smart and disarms those she is...
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Heroes and Villains on The Good Wife: Alicia’s Game Face is On
Alicia has spent the first three episodes of The Good Wife’s sixth season insisting to everyone who dare mention the State’s Attorney election how she is definitely not running and it’s been pretty...
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The Good Wife and Secrets: “Were we up to Something Naughty?”
When we first met Alicia Florrick she had been thrust into the spotlight as a result of her husband’s dalliances; a casualty of a political scandal that hit at the personal. Before this she had lived...
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These Boots Were Made for Walking: A Few Thoughts on The Good Wife’s...
Yesterday was pretty much the everything entertainment news days – HBO announcing plans for a standalone service, all of Friends on Netflix, NPH hosting the 2015 Oscars – but the one item that prompted...
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Sucking it Up on The Good Wife
From Scorned Wife to State’s Attorney Candidate! The political press has been gifted a great fairy tale of sorts with Alicia’s announcement and it is not surprising to see direct callbacks to The Good...
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The Struggle is Politics: The Good Wife and Compromise
At one point in “Old Spice” Alicia comments that she “doesn’t like pretending to be someone she is not” as a result of the religion focused interview she has just taken part in. The question of who...
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Who is the Hypocrite on The Good Wife?
The desire to run for political office can be motivated by many things and The Good Wife has featured several characters stating honest and clean intentions. As Alicia is now running it has intensified...
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The Good Wife and Entitlement: “I’m Marie Antoinette”
After the praise comes the negative feedback as Alicia hears the unfiltered thoughts of a focus group participant and spends the episode obsessing about it. While The Good Wife doesn’t go to the same...
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Public and Private Spaces on The Good Wife
“I always hated it that these offices were glass.” Private spaces are hard to come by on The Good Wife and offices made of glass windows mimic the scrutiny of Alicia’s current situation. There are few...
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