Jacqueline Bublitz - Page 2

There will be some happy fans after tonight's episode of THE GOOD WIFE. No doubt there will be some unhappy ones too, given the subject matter - even if one of the show's rarely used viewer warnings was deployed in advance of 'Restraint'. The happiness will come from seeing Christine Baranksi get to own the hour, after a mostly Diane-lite start to the season.

There's just too much craziness in this world. So says Alicia Florrick tonight, and boy, ain't that the truth. Sometimes - unlike the real-life, tragic events of this past weekend - the craziness can be fun. Tilt-a-whirly. Unexpected and delirious. Like being on a ride someone else designed, so you just get to let go - and have fun. 

All is not well in THE GOOD WIFE universe, even with those Whitney-loving goats to help lighten things up. People are lying to each other, they are doubtful of who and what to trust, and they're unintendedly revealing a lot more than just their biases. And now the NSA is monitoring some of those revelations. Again. Hence the goats. And all the liar tapping.

Sometimes an episode of THE GOOD WIFE plays like a perfect day in bond court. That is to say, everything moves really quickly, and every resolution is neat - at least for one half of each equation. Tonight, loyal followers of THE GOOD WIFE, we got an episode Judge Schakowsky would be proud of.

I forgot how funny THE GOOD WIFE is. How quick, and how cheeky. This is a fun show. The hour goes really fast when you're enjoying all the side-eye/eye-rolls/grimaces that these characters dish out to each other, whether they're mother and daughter, nearly-friends, or scheming political partners.

We want to love THE GOOD WIFE. We're a bit like Chicago voters in that way. So the way I see it, as Eli and Ruth attempt to rehabilitate Alicia this season, they're really in the process of remaking the show itself. Getting it back on the right path. The one where we'd follow Alicia Florrick anywhere, because she's that damn good.

Broadway and screen stars, Sutton Foster and Aaron Tveit. Australia's first MISS SAIGON, Joanna Ampil. Beloved home grown talents, Helen Dallimore and David Harris. Oh, and the legendary Betty Buckley. You're not dreaming, Australian musical theatre fans! This is the stellar cast producer Enda Markey will bring to the Theatre Royal stage next February for DEFYING GRAVITY, a world-premiere concert celebrating the songs of Stephen Schwartz.

Alicia Florrick is back. Really back. And not just Season 7 premiere back, either. She's back to basics. Back to where she came from. Back to being the good, good wife. Kind of.

Guess what? I am excited for THE GOOD WIFE all over again. I don't want to be on a break anymore! In fact, I can't wait for the October 4th return of my 'old friend', and here are just a few of the reasons why Season 7 has brought me back around...

For most of the hour, I just wanted this episode to end. I was nervous that certain characters were going to leave (Finn. Yeah, I was nervous about Finn), and I wanted to know who was behind that door (Finn. Yeah I wanted it to be Finn). In addition to my suspicions about losing yet another actor I adore, I also have lingering finale trauma when it comes to this show.

How are we at the end again? Surely we just started Season 6? And while we're on the topic of time doing funny things in THE GOOD WIFE universe, how is it even Season 6 in the first place? Have we really spent six whole years with Alicia Florrick?

My head hurts. I want to go back to Season 1. When THE GOOD WIFE universe was whole. When we had Diane and Will, and Cary and Alicia. And Kalinda. Always Kalinda, working for everyone, figuring everything out, saving days and sharing shots.

The hits keep coming for our newly-elected State's Attorney, Alicia Florrick. Winning, it turns out, is not a pretty affair. First there are those 'sexually-charged' emails that just won't go away. Having her dirty thoughts broadcast to the world would be more than enough to keep Alicia awake at night - but her scandal molehill turns into a mountain when it is revealed that voting machines were tampered with on election day.

THE GOOD WIFE might be the critical jewel in the CBS crown, but tonight's episode is all about ABC. Plot points that is. For the first time in a long while we get an episode where there is an A plot (case of the week) a B plot (Alicia's last few hurdles campaigning for State's Attorney) and a C plot connected to the A plot - that is a third story based on the emotional fallout from plot A.

I'm conflicted. Actually, I'm crying into my housemate's shoulder. It wasn't Will. It wasn't Will! Why would they do that? Why would they let us into Alicia's mind and have some shadow Will say some shadow Will lines in some shadow Will memory inside Alicia's head?

THE GOOD WIFE came back to us tonight - in more ways than one. After an interminably long break, season 6 finally returned, bringing with it a renewed focus on the original and best arc of the show - the evolution of Alicia Florrick. And the ethical slide she's been scrambling up and down since the day her husband's first scandal hit the news.

BLOOD BROTHERS is primarily about secrets, and the lives of good people beholden to their very worst choices.You want to get that across in a musical theatre production without falling into melodrama or caricature? Then you need a bloody good cast - and thankfully this new Australian production from Enda Markey and Hayes Theatre Co has just that.

Tonight's episode of THE GOOD WIFE starts with a tone-setting caveat – a message telling viewers that “The Debate” was written and filmed prior to the grand jury decisions in Ferguson and Staten Island.

On my first night back from a very relaxing vacation, I was a little nonchalant about “Hail Mary”, and the return of Alicia and company. Until about three minutes in, that is, when my viewing partner and I had to take the first of around seven time-outs to alternate between de-stressing and conferring on the utter brilliance of this show.

Forget “Darkness At Noon”. The mid-season finale of THE GOOD WIFE just served up enough darkness at 9pm to make me almost glad we get a few weeks respite before we pick up again next year. Almost. Come tomorrow, I'll be sufficiently recovered to re-watch tonight's episode over again, and I'll no doubt resent having to wait until January 4th for THE GOOD WIFE to return.