Since when is Dick Armitage not American?

Zucker is, but the Kings aren't, and they're the showrunners. I suspected that Zucker had more involvement in the production a number of years ago, but that was before I figured out the relative importance of executive producers vs. showrunners.

They also now have a Republican governor, the correspondence of TGW to the real world isn't exactly 1 to 1. But yeah, none of that is good. I didn't know enough about Illinois politics to know what I didn't know, although now that I think about it, I don't believe Pennsylvania's Senate has a filibuster, either. …

AKA Jessica Jones is already in production, to be followed by Luke Cage, so Mike Colter's time for The Good Wife has got to be severely limited, although it probably helps that they're all filming in NYC.

I can't imagine that what Bishop did in Cary's case could possibly construed as "good faith negotiations", unless bribery, blackmail and unspoken threats take shelter under that designation.

The Wire came close.

The guys on the board *are* the sorts of time-servers who'd jump at the chance to sit on "some stupid commission". Junior cogs in the Machine.

The infrastructure for the cheat was in place for the usual purposes of the Democratic Machine, but the actor in charge of the infrastructure contracted out fraud-work to the Prady campaign (which was non-partisan in the weird world of TV Chicagoland make-believe politics) since Alicia didn't accept his price. It…

Casting availability?

I think maybe the post-dropping-of-Bishop negotiations over Cary's fate might be the subject of her testimony? I don't know, Kalinda is in a much better position to turn states evidence. There's no investigator privilege.

Foggy is basically the reason French peasants fell in love with Madame Guillotine.

Isn't that basically Runaways?

No, I mean, a green lawyer shows up, and all she says in explanation is that "Bruce isn't allowed to donate blood anymore, and now, neither am I."

She-Hulk on Daredevil would seriously up the comic-booky quotient of the show. Although I would love it if they just dropped her into one of the shows or movies without any origin story aside from some offhanded reference to Index listing and gamma radiation.

I thought Doom got exiled with the Fantastic Four franchise?

Except that every time we see him eating breakfast, it's the same omelet. I think we're supposed to think he's taught himself how to make that one omelet perfectly, and that's it. Which is pretty central to his character - he can do anything, but's limited by his understanding, scope, and his temper. It's part of…

He's definitely a wayward The Wire character, but not Omar. Who is, come on now, kind of evil in his own right, if not exactly Marlo or Snoop. I don't know, maybe Poot Carr or Cheese?

Well, Winter Soldier definitely established that there's a sorcerer hanging out in the Village. I'm a little vague on how extensive the MCU Hell's Kitchen is on the West Side - there are some location shots all the way down by the surviving buildings of the old World Trade Center.

Hey, at least we have a minimum of "vicious Irish mobsters of Hell's Kitchen", which for about a decade there was the Manhattan-based procedural's go-to for evil gangbanging without all the racial hair-triggers, while avoiding the stupidity of the "racially inclusive gang" trope.

Eh, not so much mentally retarded as developmentally retarded - especially his pursuit of Vanessa, which reads like an awkward teenager pursuing his older sister's somewhat bemused, cool college roommate.