This was not a particularly interesting episode in the new series, but served to prove my contention (see my IMDb review of segment #1.1) that the gimmicks of horror/sci-fi and shock gore were just that, extraneous gimmicks. As the plot develops, and the insect-borne Alien invasion progresses, there was gore (including flashbacks from the first part), but generally the action and characterizations moved forward independent of that dumb premise.
Our heroine learns how deep the back-biting and political gamesmanship of D.C. goes, and her object lessons were sarcastically amusing, though betraying the overall mean-spirited attitude of the show's creators. As a proud liberal (who had my dalliance reading the works of Ayn Rand and even subscribing to her Objectivist Newsletter back in the '60s but learned to resist succumbing to her simplistic ("The virtue of selfishness") propaganda the way so many D.C. biggies like Ryan and Greenspan did not) I reject the series' fake even-handed approach, pretending to blame Republicans and Democrats equally for what's wrong.
I concede the Dems love to exploit the Republican weaknesses, but there is no excuse for the reactionary anti-science, Bible-thumping right wingers' nonsensical and dangerous actions, and I wish the "Good Wife" folks would have the guts to call a spade a spade and simply make this (Norman Lear like) a Leftist show.
At any rate, the triviality of the "high-concept" here: explaining the idiocy of these clowns in our nation's capital as due to mind control, is painful to watch because in our real world there are real folk, venal and wrong-headed, who are leading us toward destruction. Just one example alone, the recent foot-dragging on funding mosquito-annihilation program funding by the Republicans, is enough to demonstrate that this gridlock and knee-jerk obstructionism from the Right is nothing to laugh about. And don't get me started about gun control: if I were President (or my old Ohio colleague Kucinich had made it) then confiscation of the 300 million-plus guns in our nation would be Job One. Let the gun aficionados choose a new hobby: I grew up as a stamp collector, and no one was ever injured by that fabulous and rewarding pastime.
Our heroine learns how deep the back-biting and political gamesmanship of D.C. goes, and her object lessons were sarcastically amusing, though betraying the overall mean-spirited attitude of the show's creators. As a proud liberal (who had my dalliance reading the works of Ayn Rand and even subscribing to her Objectivist Newsletter back in the '60s but learned to resist succumbing to her simplistic ("The virtue of selfishness") propaganda the way so many D.C. biggies like Ryan and Greenspan did not) I reject the series' fake even-handed approach, pretending to blame Republicans and Democrats equally for what's wrong.
I concede the Dems love to exploit the Republican weaknesses, but there is no excuse for the reactionary anti-science, Bible-thumping right wingers' nonsensical and dangerous actions, and I wish the "Good Wife" folks would have the guts to call a spade a spade and simply make this (Norman Lear like) a Leftist show.
At any rate, the triviality of the "high-concept" here: explaining the idiocy of these clowns in our nation's capital as due to mind control, is painful to watch because in our real world there are real folk, venal and wrong-headed, who are leading us toward destruction. Just one example alone, the recent foot-dragging on funding mosquito-annihilation program funding by the Republicans, is enough to demonstrate that this gridlock and knee-jerk obstructionism from the Right is nothing to laugh about. And don't get me started about gun control: if I were President (or my old Ohio colleague Kucinich had made it) then confiscation of the 300 million-plus guns in our nation would be Job One. Let the gun aficionados choose a new hobby: I grew up as a stamp collector, and no one was ever injured by that fabulous and rewarding pastime.
