My wife and I considers ourselves honorary Good Wife PhD. holders after watching all 154 episodes over the past six months (OK we didn't write a dissertation or thesis, but we should get some piece of paper for all that time spent).
I liked the final episode more than she did. I thought that it was fitting that after impulsively running after Jason, alas, I guess she's stuck with an unemployed governor/disbarred middle-aged lawyer. However, she's a much tougher woman now (witness her iron jaw and steely recovery after Diane rightfully slapped her) However, to witness these tied up loose ends were subjected to one of the more dizzying episodes the shows creators have cranked out.
There is just way too much going on here to cram into 43 minutes. A special-length double episode would have been the way to go. Thematically and tonally this one was all over the place with dream sequences, Will's ghost following her around, the very obvious metaphor and annoying physical destruction of the current office (very poorly explained) and a federal plea bargain that is so far fetched as to be distracting. (Much of the law on the show has been interesting and seemingly plausible to a lay person -- OK, getting into court takes years, so these speedy trials have always been big time poetic license)But the Feds do not bargain down from 10 years hard time to 1 year probation. That's just nonsense.
Also, amping up the drama by having this murder case being solved in concert with Peter's corruption case (i.e. like a play within a play) is just too much and left me more fatigued in the end than satisfied.
I liked the final episode more than she did. I thought that it was fitting that after impulsively running after Jason, alas, I guess she's stuck with an unemployed governor/disbarred middle-aged lawyer. However, she's a much tougher woman now (witness her iron jaw and steely recovery after Diane rightfully slapped her) However, to witness these tied up loose ends were subjected to one of the more dizzying episodes the shows creators have cranked out.
There is just way too much going on here to cram into 43 minutes. A special-length double episode would have been the way to go. Thematically and tonally this one was all over the place with dream sequences, Will's ghost following her around, the very obvious metaphor and annoying physical destruction of the current office (very poorly explained) and a federal plea bargain that is so far fetched as to be distracting. (Much of the law on the show has been interesting and seemingly plausible to a lay person -- OK, getting into court takes years, so these speedy trials have always been big time poetic license)But the Feds do not bargain down from 10 years hard time to 1 year probation. That's just nonsense.
Also, amping up the drama by having this murder case being solved in concert with Peter's corruption case (i.e. like a play within a play) is just too much and left me more fatigued in the end than satisfied.