Prediction:
Chekhov's molar + Chekhov's dying Russian mom -> Elizabeth undergoing some Soviet dentistry by the end of the season. You heard it here first.

Spot on, IMHO.
It is a profoundly uncomfortable message, and I have lots of respect for Brooker & co for making it.

They were MIRROR IMAGE twins, too, which seems biologically dubious. And made them shitty at impersonating each other, though I don't think the show ever went there.

I wanted to express my admiration for the writing of Forster's fixer character. It would have been an easy thing to make him a grouchy old man superhero who, though he helps the scum of the earth for money, has a moral code, blah blah blah.
(I will be a little unfair and call that the Tarantino route, even though QT…

In real life, for sure. This is the fictional TGW universe, though, where one ballot box contains 30K votes, and the Democratic candidate's son votes in a precinct overseen by Roseanne's mom. :)

Could be. If she had confidence in the future profit growth (of either firm), though, taking points (if that's what it's called) would be a smart move.
Her pissed-offedness at Cary suggests she was actually interested in forming a new relationship with this group of rebels. Given her personality, it doesn't seem…

In an operation of that kind you need leadership, though.
Imagine: David Lee has bullied his way into the [insert Star Wars term for security office]. Kalinda has used sex-charm and martial arts to get into [like before, some critical strategic position].

Despite its being at heart a cheeseball legal procedural, I share your confidence in TGW's generally intelligent approach to current events - and would feel more secure in that opinion if there'd been some room made for a WTF-the-polls-were-crazy-wrong moment!

The professionalism at that firm is gonna decrease by about 90% next season. Will is gonna be bouncing tennis balls off the wall, surrounded by empty pizza boxes, while David Lee reduces the remaining secretaries to tears and Kalinda ignores everybody.
(Not that all the workplace canoodling was exactly professional,…

My maybe-guess (like others here) is that it's setting up political drama for next season - we'll find out that the polls were right, it was a close race, and Peter's people stole it. (Or that some more complex shenanigans were going on - can they have Kristeva be utterly blameless?)

(Agree that we are electorally backward overall, but this particular election, like all state governors' elections, is pretty simple - most votes wins, plurality or majority. Sorry to nitpick - but following the same logic at the federal level in electing the president would be an improvement. And could be…

(Agree that we are electorally backward overall, but this particular election, like all state governors' elections, is pretty simple - most votes wins, plurality or majority. Sorry to nitpick - but following the same logic at the federal level in electing the president would be an improvement. And could be…

Some funny editing with Judge Abernathy, too - crossing the frame at random, or being at the wrong angle in the [whatever you call those things where you cut back and forth between characters following their lines of sight].

At first glance, I thought Judge In-My-Opinion was gonna be a cameo by former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris. Which would have been amazing.

Yeah, I think they outsourced the plot outline to the election fraud forums on freerepublic.com or something. (It being The Good Wife, they then removed all the dog-whistle racism.)
Speaking of paranoid politics, I can't help pointing out that a visit to bizarro-unskewedpolls.com probably would have eased Eli's anxiety…

Yeah, I think they outsourced the plot outline to the election fraud forums on freerepublic.com or something. (It being The Good Wife, they then removed all the dog-whistle racism.)
Speaking of paranoid politics, I can't help pointing out that a visit to bizarro-unskewedpolls.com probably would have eased Eli's anxiety…

Minor quibble w this: "She's asking for 5% of the profits, an ask that, if answered for twenty people, would leave an entire firm with no budget. "

DO IT

Thanks for that -
I feel a little better about the show :)

Won't opine on the historical accuracy of the generally tolerant response.