Alicia certainly maintains grudges and is one of her main flaws, but at the same time, she did stand by him when she knew Peter had cheated and played the "good wife" role. And now Peter won't play up when it's his turn to act like the "good husband." Definitely on Alicia's side here.

The Kings have stated they want to run for seven seasons. Also the idiosyncratic naming of the series points to ending at seven (in S1, episode titles were all one word, two words in S2, three in S3, four in S4, three in S5, two in S6, ? in S7).

Maybe it's just a rumor and there's nothing to it? I don't know, I've seen this a bunch of times by now and never seen anything to substantiate it. There's that line about Marguiles saying she didn't think the characters would get back together, but in context she was clearly talking about how she thinks her character…

I just…disagree I guess. I don't think Elsbeth shooting for ridiculous legal loopholes to protect her sexist client is any more honorable than Alicia's tactics. Just because Elsbeth is working within the system doesn't make it any more dignified in my mind.

Yeah, and it was a great way to sort of retain characterization of Elsbeth as basically the best lawyer on the show. Alicia's going to have to do something out of the box to beat her. Although it was a silly subplot overall, at least it sort of managed to retain Elsbeth's characterization that way.

I remember back in Season 1 when the most interesting character was Kalinda. The writing for her has just fell into some predictable loops since then, which is disappointing. Maybe it's just hard to sustain that mostly closed off character that she was, especially when you hint at mystery and intrigue but probably…

How are we getting the idea that Elsbeth is some innocent lawyer in need of protecting? It's not like Elsbeth wasn't using underhanded loopholes to try and squeeze out a victory for her side (which was the less sympathetic side from my viewpoint as well). Alicia is cruel because she'd rather use some cheap trick than…

There was a throwaway line that they were about to buy backups but then had to use the money for Cary's bail. But yeah, I mean any technologically competent company has backups, although not every company is competent. Sometimes people are dumb/lazy and this is one of those plots that only work because of that.

Oh I guess that's another thing. The Good Wife is super white. In fact Kalinda was the most important non-white character, so the show's about to be even whiter. Maybe Taye Diggs' character can pick up the slack and do something interesting.

That's kind of what I meant by side-plots. And it's not like I don't like the arc and continuity aspects, I think they're major contributors to season 5 being the strongest season of the show. At the same time it's just unfortunate that a lot of the investigation time got eaten up by that and the writers haven't found…

It's a law procedural, but a very good law procedural. I would liken it to Homicide: LIfe in the City, in that yeah, that was a crime procedural with a lot of typical case of the week episodes, but they also choose to stretch the format and if there's episodes that break the typical formula like a guy trapped under a…

It seems like the show has so many side-plots in recent seasons that they haven't really had time for the investigatory work they had in earlier seasons, which is a bit of a shame.

Oh yeah, I think its clear Owen got caught off-guard by something as well (whether its the married or the porn part or both is ambiguous), that's why I think the comparison to the Alicia/Zack situation is pretty spot on. It's not just "oh, this might be dragged out into public" but the blindside of not even knowing…

In "The Wire" there was this whole plotline of politicians being connected to drug money through fuzzy ambiguous methods. It was never clear whether a lot of the drug dealers were directly asking for favors or just wink wink hint hinting with campaign donations. Lemond Bishop's wink wink hint hint at the end of the…

I wasn't sure why Alicia was so mad until she was telling Zach "you will tell the reporters you told me this and we discussed the options etc. etc." I thought it was clear from the way Marguiles read that scene that Alicia was just really angry not about the abortion itself but that that pretend version of the events…

On the Alcohol: the show went so far as to show Alicia turning down alcohol when she knows she has to drive and has never showed her to be anything but a responsible drinker. No harm has ever come from her drinking. I don't know, maybe I'm just a big liberal progressive when it comes to this stuff, but if there's no…

Because he's a cool (if outspoken) guy who probably didn't want his personal business aired out like that. I mean, Alicia went through the same thing earlier with Zach, but she knew what she was getting into. Eli gave that whole red pill/blue pill speech and Alicia chose to open up that book of secrets. Owen didn't…

Alicia had a lot of good "silently reacting to religion" moments tonight, and almost none of them came from Grace, so bonus.

Did the Kalinda coming to Florrik, Agos and Lockhart issue ever get cleared up? I assume the show is moving her to the new firm (and keeping Robyn), but after that talk last week there wasn't a mention here.

Sometimes people don't make up; that's real life. If that's the direction the King's choose that would be bold. I don't know if it would be emotionally satisfying though, but I definitely think it would be bold. It seems most long TV shows never have their character mad at each other for that long, and that the…