"The Good Wife" The Last Call (TV Episode 2014) Poster

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(2014)

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10/10
5.16 **** Outstanding
edwagreen30 March 2014
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How do you make sense as well as coming to grips with the tragedy relate to this excellent episode.

Alicia questions her faith with her ever- believing daughter.

There is the anticipated shock at the firm, but Diane fires a person there for only a week after she finds her in a terribly crying state.

There are excellent performances by Christine Baranski and Julianne Margulies, both grieving for a devoted friend. The former searches desperately for answers regarding why this tragedy unfolded and the latter tries desperately to maintain decorum and see where the firm will go to without Will Gardner. Kalinda does her usual investigatory work while meeting up with the alleged killer, Will's client in court.

Cary, also deeply hurt by the events, carries it into creating quite a scene at the deposition. His outburst prior to this is memorable.

Diane is certainly no slouch either in dismissing a client, bringing lots of money to the firm, as she doesn't like his response to the tragedy. She really shows that she can be ethical. Did we choose the wrong profession? She asks this of David, a lawyer, upset, but knowing full well that life in the firm must go on.

Finally, this senseless tragedy shall certainly bring a strain to Peter and Alicia's marriage.

Very fitting that Josh Charles directed this excellent episode.
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10/10
Best TV ever.
poedoegro10 April 2014
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I have just gotten into this show.....what happened to Will.....shocked me.

I have enjoyed Josh Charles' work since "Sports Night." I will be sorry to see him go.

But the scene where Diane and Alicia meet and hug each other for the first time after they've heard of Will's death was....amazing television.

I've watched it probably five times on my DVR and have cried every time.

I was happy to see that Josh C. directed it. Maybe that's what he wants to do.
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10/10
This one really got me
jbernabeus-19 March 2023
I'm trying hard to rationalize it, but I couldn't stop welling up the last 15 minutes of the chapter. I guess the previous chapter was too shocking to react, to really get what happened. This one is far less action and much more focused on the impacts and on how each character deals (or doesn't) with them.

The dialogues, the sequences, the silent close-ups... All mostly serene and subdued, not aimed for easy, simple emotion-grabbing, but ending up deep within me. I liked that they didn't skip the contradictions of the characters, that made them very real.

It will be hard keeping up with this, I'll watch how it plays out.
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