"Mike is celibate? How is this the first we're hearing about this?"

So glad they gave her the Gold Gun. If she becomes a jewelry-themed figure skating obsessive… I won't hate it.

One thing I will never miss in season 2 (presuming the Wells storyline concludes) is minor characters having a death warrant whenever they learn about Wells' bad side. There's just no drama to it. The minute someone suspects him, they're doomed.

I don't imagine we'll be seeing Geneva much for the rest of the season. Her actress is busy with a soon-to-be Broadway show and has been for months now. But since we'll be seeing the inside of the SA office more often now, and since Geneva was name-checked this episode, I kind of wonder what's going to happen with (or…

I think you're right about it being a mistake, really.

Just to be clear, he isn't actually a Jesuit. Jesuits are a society of priests, and that would be a pretty difficult part of his bio to hide from the Illinois media (not to mention Alicia's own team). Prady is probably just a devout Catholic. At most, he might have been using "Jesuit" in the sense of…

Solid scene to see Prady out the door on. He won't join Alicia's team not because of ego, but because of principles. That's exactly who the man always has been, and Alicia (and the show) understands and respects that. Really, given the number of guest stars brought in to play political opponents of the regulars only…

The showrunners have learned the wrong lesson from the successes of the Florick/Agos and Will's death storylines. Shaking up the status quo is not inherently a brave or smart thing to do. Especially when this show's biggest scores play off of storylines slowly developed over seasons of procedural plots.

The insinuation is that if Hardy allowed Miller to use force against Joe, he might have also used force against him earlier to provoke a confession. It's still a stretch, but it's not that illogical. (We also have the benefit of knowing that Hardy didn't "just stand there" while Miller attacked Joe, but the defense…

Really? Despite that foreboding background music, I don't think you could film it like that and not think it's meant to evoke the sexual tension between them. I thought it was quite gratuitous; unfortunately, I'm not in the right demo to enjoy its gratuity.

I disagree. There's too much history for Miller there; it's unnecessarily painful. Practically speaking, it's the wrong choice for the exact reason it did go wrong: everyone in the neighborhood knows Ellie and there's too great a risk they might talk to her about the well-known trial happening that very day that…

The last set of scenes is where it lost me. Utterly no reason to stage the meeting between Claire and her husband at Ellie's old house—no reason except to facilitate everything going wrong as it did. Just beyond stupid.

I'm not 100% sold on the comparison between Malvo and the Fargo movie character, but I think you're right about why Malvo is in this show. Based on the limited online discussion I've read, I'm in the distinct minority in thinking this show would go from good to great in an instant if Malvo wasn't in it. He just feels…

No worries, I don't feel patronized. :) I have seen Fargo and LOVE it. I haven't seen a ton of other Coen Bros. movies, but I'm a big fan of a few of them (True Grit, Miller's Crossing) and really don't care for a few of them (Burn After Reading, Inside Llewyn Davis). What that means for my reaction to the Fargo TV…

Is he a regular? I didn't check. Since he was leaving town at the end of the episode, I hoped he was guesting to serve as a catalyst for Nygaard's corruption.

I liked it, but I couldn't take the Malvo character seriously. He's so patently artificial in a cast that is otherwise grounded with quirky-but-lifelike people. His manipulations were neither believable nor interesting enough to forgive their ridiculousness. The idea that he might play a prominent role in the rest of…

I don't know. Will found out, but we don't know who he called about it before he died. (If he did call Damian to fire him, Damian had no reason to reveal this to anyone afterwards). We've seen no indication that Diane or Kalinda knew, and if David Lee knew, he wasn't telling.

I *think* she was Grace's tutor and only friend, and they made weird internet videos together until Alicia told her she was too old to hang out with Grace. If that's who it was (and even if it wasn't) she's such a weird grab from the Good Wife Big Ole Bag of Recurring Characters.

Have we ever seen Donna Murphy's judge character? I continue to appreciate how The Good Wife (and the Law&Order franchise) does its best to help out Broadway stars during lean months.

I know. I appreciate Sonia's insights, but man, we watch a different show.