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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.

What do you do about everything? It's a question asked of Alicia by a twitchy guy at the start of “Sticky Content”, and it's also a question I'm asking myself now. How do I recap an episode where nothing much happened action-wise, but at the same time everything that happened was so important, and so worth talking about?

When you enter the red zone, you have taken yourself beyond the limits of safety. You go to where things are dangerous, prohibited even. Or, to borrow from football, you find yourself in a situation where things could go any which way, where either side could score. Whichever definition you relate to, the red zone is not the securest place to find yourself, and certainly not a place you want to stay for long. Tonight, all of our characters are in that red zone, in one way or another ...

Liberal doses of silliness, some supreme Alicia exasperation, and the sublime sadness of the closing scene make 'Old Spice' a very good episode, but not a great one (in my opinion).

Oh, THE GOOD WIFE. You beautiful, shiny, xylophone-sounding sunflower of a television show. You are the Ann Perkins to my Lesley Knope tonight (and if you don't get the reference, get thee to PARKS & RECREATION - right now!).

Alicia used to be a good wife. The kind who hosted parties, and served the right food, and made sure her guests were comfortable and catered to. At the very beginning of tonight's episode, we're reminded of this earlier, Highland Park Alicia. And then, with just a little “Oppo Research”, we're reminded of why that Alicia couldn't last …

If Season 5 of THE GOOD WIFE had us say goodbye to the world we thought we lived in, Season 6 is the new world order - and good (Gloria) God, after three episodes, it just keeps getting better!

Okay, so I cried at the end. Not death-of-Will tears, or the sobs elicited when Alicia broke up with Gardner way back in Season 3, and I felt like it was happening to me. No, these were poignant tears, the trickle down, uh-oh this is too moving kind of tears that THE GOOD WIFE has earned from its viewers, because after five years, Diane's goodbye felt like our goodbye, too.

Did y'hear the story of the Johnstone Twins? With BLOOD BROTHERS coming to Sydney in February 2015, BroadwayWorld talks to the cast and creative team about this intimate new production of one of the greatest musicals of our time.

Nope! I did not see that coming. Perhaps the break lulled me into a false sense of network procedural security, because I thought we were coming back to THE GOOD WIFE to watch Cary and Alicia battle it out for the future (indeed for the very culture) of Florrick/Agos.

From classic musicals like CHICAGO, and THE KING AND I, to newer works, including WILD PARTY and the original Australian production, DREAMSONG, Gibb has played lead roles across a wide range of musical theatre genres - and now she's adding horror to the list in CARRIE the MUSICAL.