I think it's just a clever job by wardrobe / hair / make-up to make him look younger—and framing the shots so as not to focus too closely on his face. (But I barely thought about it at the time—so good job, Good Wife, for making me suspend my disbelief!)

Yes, I love that detail—when Alicia gives Kalinda as the name of her informant. (I was expecting her just to keep stonewalling and insist it was a whistleblower or confidential informant.) Very crafty, I thought—Kalinda would be proud!

DIY Alicia: I'm not sure I buy it, but I like it! And I'd like to imagine that's the same store where Kalinda (a few seasons back) bought her mighty sledgehammer…

Yeah, where is that old idealistic Cary? I can't believe he's satisfied at a firm where "we don't take cases like that anymore"—meaning the pro bono case.

I'd feel a lot more comfortable about their relationship if they become equal partners within their own firm, than I was about the hypothetical scenario of Alicia as Finn's boss/lover within the bureaucracy of the State's Attorney's Office. But whatever happens, at least they can be drinking buddies…

Cary has a nice line to Alicia, regarding the piles of old evidence he dug up but never aired in court: "It's like a director's cut. Wouldn't mind finally seeing it shown." At its best, the Case Of The Week format does play out like a director's cut, giving us a behind-the-scenes look at the strategies, "facts," and…

It's apt that Grace and Alicia are watching _To Kill a Mockingbird_ at the start of the hour—prompting a discussion of idealism versus pragmatism, the dramatic versus the mundane—in the law and (implicitly) in life.

Beautifully said. Alicia only looks at the note for a second, so either it was the very briefest of farewells (more classic Kalinda) or she only read the first line or so before breaking down. And you're right, the note becomes a catalyst for Alicia's grief over all the OTHER losses in her life (the main ones being…

No, Kalinda! Don't give your enemies any way to trace your new identity! (Cary, you'd better take care of that for her.)

Especially not a lawyer mysteriously gifted to you from the Democratic Party.

Good call. That would be a classic Kalinda move. (Though I'm doubtful she would let anyone, even Cary, really know what she is up to. Maybe some mysterious P.O. box or number to call in an emergency…but she wouldn't want to put either of them at risk by staying too accessible.) She seems fully capable of making a…

Agreed. I have nothing inherently against the election arc. I don't mind "back again. Right at the beginning" (to quote Diane) if we get some sort of character development out of it. We hadn't seen Alicia so impassioned about her candidacy for months—not until now she sees it slipping away—when she snaps back "I…

I've been intrigued by the development of Cary and Kalinda's relationship. Even if she can never fully commit to a single person (romantically), and they've spent much of their friendship not knowing if they can fully believe or trust one another, they both really put themselves on the line for one another. Especially…

Agreed. Alicia very carefully shielded the Will part of her life from her kids. It was actually Zach who had one brief, laughingly awkward encounter with Will (must have been season 3: Zach was working in his mom's office, on her laptop, when Will stops by). Will tries to make small talk and to seem cool, but…

Queer is a fluid term for anyone who does not conform to mainstream norms of sexuality or gender identity. You could be gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or someone who otherwise subverts or rejects expected gender norms. It's a way of reclaiming a term (queer) that, until quite recently, was almost solely…

Very well said. And that brings up the problem of WHO is in a protected class, and WHERE? Our nation is a patchwork in terms of which cities and states offer explicit protections on the basis of sexuality or gender identity. The fact that "religious liberty" could be tossed around as an excuse not to serve an…

I completely agree with the reviewer about Kalinda—her fluid sexuality and refusal to be labeled (or even to label herself). In an age of identity politics, it's the person who elides our standard forms of identification who most challenges the status quo.

For a show that usually pays such attention to detail, the leaked emails strike me as farcically out of character (it's the sheer careless of it all: from the backbiting of colleagues, to the putting-into-writing of this super-private, potentially career-destroying affair), not to mention out of timeline (the emails…

The Julius/David exchanges were priceless. As was Alan Cumming's confused, horrified reaction as he overhears their bickering—especially knowing he's just been playing a sexually ambiguous character of his own on Broadway.

Still, Finn has yet to actually accept the job. But if that's the way the show is going, it's yet another inversion of Alicia's role from her good wife/good employee status of season 1. Now it's not sexual tension/relations between Alicia and her boss (Will), it would be between her and her subordinate (Finn). And…