Isn't The Good Wife great?

[adamgreer]

Has it been confirmed next season is the last? I've heard that from a few different places, but I've yet to see an official source. 

I realized also the show started going downhill around the time that Marguiles became an executive producer, and we started getting these vanity episodes. The show was much more interesting when it was more ensemble based. 

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Does Julianna Margulies hate the guy who plays her son like she hates Archie Punjabi?  All the talk is focused on how Alicia and Kalinda haven't had a scene together in years, but I can't remember the last time she and Zach were in the same room, either.  

[Jordan Catalano]

Mary Beth Peil told me at the VISIT stage door that next season will be the shows last season, so I'm taking that as confirmation enough. 

And last night when there was that 1.5 second clip of Julianna & Archie together at the bar, I kind of gasped and wondered how much real alcohol they had both just had in order to do that. lol

[adamgreer]

Has there ever been anything written about why they hate each other? 

Regarding Zach, I just assumed the actor who played him was unavailable and it was very easy for them to ship him off to college. 

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

And last night when there was that 1.5 second clip of Julianna & Archie together at the bar, I kind of gasped and wondered how much real alcohol they had both just had in order to do that.

 

I figured that was some kind of trickery or an old shot they reused, since the entire scene itself was just cut back and forth between them.  When they first showed Alicia sitting on the left side of the frame I thought maybe there were gonna do a Parent Trap-type split screen to get them both in the same frame.  

[Jordan Catalano]

No, if you watch it you can see theyte both in the same shot. But man, is it short. 

 

[LarryD2]

According to this article, Panjabi is returning for the season finale to give the character--and her relationship with Alicia--closure.

Graham Phillips has been attending college at Princeton the last couple of years, which is why Zach's role has diminished over the last few seasons by sending him away to Georgetown--though on the show, Alicia and Zach have a falling out when Alicia discovers that Zach pressured his ex-girlfriend into having an abortion, which explains their lack of communication.

[Mister Matt]

I thought the "feud" was all fan-fueled rumors that stemmed from a Marguiles interview where she spoke about the characters but fans believed (or wanted to believe) she was speaking about the actors.  There's all sorts of weird speculation about it that seems to be for sport.  One of the most fun is that Marguiles (the actress) is closeted and tried to have Punjabi (the actress) fired because she's jealous that Kalinda (the character) is openly bi and was fooling around with Lana (the character).  Perhaps that makes more sense than the characters not appearing together because Alicia's not over being mad at Kalinda?  Is it even worth speculating about?

[adamgreer]

"I thought the "feud" was all fan-fueled rumors that stemmed from a Marguiles interview where she spoke about the characters but fans believed (or wanted to believe) she was speaking about the actors.  There's all sorts of weird speculation about it that seems to be for sport.  One of the most fun is that Marguiles (the actress) is closeted and tried to have Punjabi (the actress) fired because she's jealous that Kalinda (the character) is openly bi and was fooling around with Lana (the character).  Perhaps that makes more sense than the characters not appearing together because Alicia's not over being mad at Kalinda?  Is it even worth speculating about?"

The fan theories are cuckoo, but what isn't cuckoo is the fact that they haven't shared a scene together in 2.5 seasons. While Alicia may still hate Kalinda, they've worked on cases together in the past 2.5 seasons, and the fact they never conferenced in person at the office is odd.

Also, numerous websites are reporting that they were not in the scene together last night. 

[Mister Matt]

I still don't think it's that weird.  Why do they have to share a scene together?  Was there something that happened that compels them to share the same space at the same time?  Must they communicate even in the briefest of non-conversations face-to-face to satiate viewers in a way that most viewers wouldn't do themselves with someone they dislike?  I wouldn't have noticed this was a thing myself if I hadn't seen it mentioned in this thread today.  Whether this is motivated by the actors, the characters, or the publicity team, it really seems like a mountain/molehill thing.  Hopefully, the show will find some way to end in dignity and fans can stop fretting over which actors or characters have stopped occupying the same space at the same time.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

I think most people would agree it's empirically weird that they haven't had a scene together in a long time.   It's not like there's a plot line about Alicia refusing to speak with or deal with Kalinda, since they've showed them on the phone with one another.

Also, if it is a character thing, that doesn't explain why they weren't in the room for the flashback scene that took place before their characters had conflict. 

[Jay Lerner-Z]

It could just be schedule thing. Archie Panjabi was appearing in The Fall, and also recently did some other BBC crime procedural called "Shetland" in the UK...maybe she filmed a bunch of scenes out of sequence on her own or works at odd hours.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Was Alicia and Kalinda's Final Scene a Split-Screen?

I thought it was!  They thought so on EW Radio, too!

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Definitey split-screen. There has to be a logistical reason other than supposed animosity.

[Huss417]

Just finished watching it and thought the same thing before coming here. It was a split screen. Bizarre.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

 

Inside the Conspiracy

 

 

[Sutton Ross]

Confirmed

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

We are certainly never ever hoping to hurt the fans’ feelings or make them feel like that trust has been broken. But we’re making the show every day using tricks, like if you’re in a car and there’s green screen and it looks like Chicago out the window but that’s not exactly where we are. That’s an every day, run-of-the-mill thing on the show.

[Jordan Catalano]

There are so many "that's bullsh*t" quotes from that interview, it's ridiculous. 

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Next season every character will be filmed individually.  It's just what they do on tv!

[Jordan Catalano]

It's just how it's done! DUH! 

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Next year Peter is gonna run against Hillary Clinton.  Truth. 

[Jordan Catalano]

And it'll turn out that Peter has been Al Gore all along. 

#deception

[sabrelady]

SO Micheal J Fox will become Jimmy Carter?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

It was a good premiere, I thought.  

Also, Juliana would like you to know that there was no feud (although Archie seems to see things differently)

[Jay Lerner-Z]

If there was no feud before, maybe the whole split-screen thing started one - seems pretty disrespectful way to send someone off.