Great comment. Good Wife is generally so magnificently written, that I'm beginning to think that maybe they have one not-so-good writer that they assign to write the Grace scenes, and that same person came up with the awful Will's lover character. Let's blame it all on that guy (pretty sure it is a guy - there was…

Colin Sweeney is indisputably a lot of fun, but for someone like me who prefers The Good Wife to skew realist (and to eschew Ally McBeal-style fantastical, hyper-eccentric, precious elements), I could live happily without Colin Sweeney in this show. (The Melissa George constant-morning-sickness scenes were right out…

Yeah, but "working with the Feds" is such a TV cliché at this point, that I hope it's something else.

If possible, this was even better than last week's near-masterpiece. This show has really hit a magnificent groove right now, and I'm loving it. Things that irritated me about the episode, though: the highly annoying, unnecessary opening sequence (almost as annoying as the from-the-paralegal's-POV opening from early…

Well said, dogpoet. I couldn't agree more. It is an annoying, lazy, easy subplot and way too dumb/dull for this show to pursue.

Despite the supposedly risqué (well, for Lifetime) subject matter, this show looked and sounded like it was made in 1997. I'm not kidding. The first time I saw it, I was like, "What episode of Party of Five is this??!" There was something very retro about the way it was shot, the way scenes were constructed, the…

"Secretly the dirtiest show on TV." I wish they'd use that in their advertisements/campaign.

Like you, I also watched the first two seasons, and took a long hiatus. When this show is firing on all cylinders, it is better than pretty much anything else. But the show tends to be erratic, with long slow stretches and mediocre episodes (hence my dropping out for a while). If the writers can work things out, this…

Agreed!

What were they smoking in the writers' room the day they named "Chumhum"? It's difficult to conceive of them coming up with a WORSE name. "Chumhum" is one of the lifelong strikes against this show, as far as I'm concerned.

Agree. I just finished watching this episode and it was fantastic. (When The Good Wife is firing on all cylinders, it beats the hell out of any other broadcast show - and most good cable shows, too, for that matter.) And I am on Team Will. It's dizzying to no longer support Alicia, and to view the show through a…

She really does! Well put.

Well said. Although I think he could be an A-list TV actor if he found the right vehicle.

Because she knew he was being whiny and manipulative and wasn't about to reward him for it.

I still don't believe that Penny and Leonard are a couple, even after all this time. Even in the semi-fantastical world of the show, someone like Penny would never go out with a guy like Leonard. It just doesn't ring true. But that's not the point, the point is that the episodes or subplots exploring their…

Agree that it was the worst episode of the season so far. Not terrible, but tired and kind of coasting on its own cuteness.

Also, the ratings for this week's episode were up. Not up that much (still pretty weak, actually), but up enough so that the show is safe for the moment. The fact that no new sitcom is doing very well probably helps it, too.

"Modern Family" is quite possibly the most overrated show of this century. I don't actively dislike it - it makes for pleasant background noise, and I'll watch it if I have nothing else to do - but there is something almost smug about it. Smug and lazy. It is very far from being progressive, unless the definition of…

Jake Johnson is a really, REALLY good suggestion. Seems weirdly perfect. And Johnson is an excellent, versatile actor, to say nothing of his comic gifts and his enormous likeability.

Am I the only one who really dislikes Emile Hirsh, although for no real reason? I think he just has a punchable face. Or maybe it was "Alpha Dogs." God, that was a terrible movie.