The Kings have established social dynamics between their main and secondary characters that are so thick with interpersonal tension that the second a guest actor appears onscreen you know EXACTLY what the tenor of that scene will be.

Tear-jerking speeches delivered by an Inspiring, Prickly-But-Loveable Patriarch who is Totally Not A Stand-In & Political Mouthpiece for Aaron Sorkin.

^ waiting patiently for someone to make a .gif of Lockhart mouthing the word: "BULLSHIT".

who would have thought that an episode featuring: 1) a human side to Lockhart, 2) Carrie at her MOST crazy, and 3) Brody… would end up being a great episode of Homeland?

"Yeah, right, the guy in the $6300 suit is going to actually be a non-hallucination Brody. COME ON!"

can we get a couple bars that reference Cary's "99 Problems"-level knowledge of probable cause? also please include a joke about Beyonce.

It took me awhile to understand the real reason why Canning insisted that Alicia visit his wife in the event of his possible death, but when I did it totally devastated me [sorry for the Upworthy clickbait-style tease there].

"Give the jury a chance to find the injustice themselves." - Change "jury" to "audience" and you have the best explanation for why The Good Wife is such a great fucking show. If only someone had given Aaron Sorkin the same advice before he started writing The Newsroom…

When Diane said that "attorneys make the worst witnesses" I wasn't quite sure what to make of that statement until Cary said: "No. I mean It's not a lie in the way that you mean it." That statement perfectly encapsulates the way attorneys - or at least, the attorneys in the world of The Good Wife - perceive truth as…

Cary is also reflected back at himself through the mock trial videos that are waiting at his desk.

Totally agree that Rebecca is flat and insufferably bratty but this seems like a kind of overblown reaction when considering that Annalise - the MAIN character - is the most absurdly temperamental, least developed, least behaviorally consistent, and least clearly motivated character in the entire show. I think a lot…

me too, kinda. especially considering the fact that they spent a whole fucking episode commenting on the fetishization of violence against women, only to spend a huge amount of screen time fetishizing violence against women in a pivotal sex scene. in more nuanced shows i'd say this was some kind of ironic commentary…

Cross-cutting the sex scene with the autopsy foreshadows the mortal danger Wes and Rebecca put themselves in by getting together. The way they match-cut the angles of Rebecca with her dead friend Lila might also foreshadow Rebecca's possible future death at the end of this season.

Wes probably killed Sam.

Every once in a while I read an SoA review to see if it's still doing all the awful things that made me unable to continue watching it. I say: "Yup, yup, and…. yup," and then go back to watching The Good Wife.

As for jihadi cipher #6 - yeah, I'm also sick of the way the show throws up one faceless resting-terrorist-bitch-face boogeyman after another. It's even worse that Carrie and Quinn are both white yet still manage to lead most of their covert ops in public. Even Quinn and Carrie are forced to acknowledge the…

I think Aayan's murder actually reinforces the great points you think the show was trying to make, whereas in previous seasons the writers would have ended up repeating those points with diminishing returns through intimate exchanges that would get cornier and soapier the longer the relationship was allowed to…

Use of vibrant red in cinematography is often associated with rebellious behavior (like James Dean's jacket in Rebel Without A Cause), and TGW often dresses Alicia in red when she's about to behave badly or go off-script. She also tends to wear red when she's in a position of power. The most memorable use of this…

Yeah I never once thought she was in love with him - but I was definitely afraid that the writers were going there, given their past history of running across the field into their own end zone holding onto a really, really bad idea.

The lighting, art direction, and costume dept. on this show really deserve more critical attention, because they help to enhance mood, tone, theme and character in discrete but significant ways.