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The Good Fight: The One About the End of the World (2019)
A different point of view
A lot of the reviews here aren't really reviewing the content of the episode, but talk about what they would rather have appear if they made the show. It goes without saying that they do not.
I can see that some people may be offended by what may come across as a glorification of opioid misuse. I don't see it as glorification, more a metaphor for letting go of conventions and propriety, and embrace of chaos. In "Medium Raw", Anthony Bourdain wrote the following passage: Norman Mailer described the desire to be cool as a 'decision to encourage the psychopath in oneself... where security is boredom and therefore sickness...".
The final scene of this episode shows Maia Rindell embrace her inner coolness, letting go of the baggage saddled on her by her father and setting out in her own direction. In this, Blum is an agent of change; he simply gives Maia the permission to let all that baggage go.
The Good Fight: Day 422 (2018)
Am I missing something..?
A good episode, with an assault case running the length of the episode and resolved in the final 5 minutes. There hasn't been much courtroom action as of late and this episode doesn't really change that but takes its moments of high drama and intrigue from another source. A disgruntled employee threatens Diane in a letter that targets not just her but the whole office. Caught up in action, Maia and Marissa especially make the best of a bad situation! Following her "experimenting" with psilocybin in episode 1, Diane spends this episode at first distracted by the events around her (which is understandable), following an admonishment in court by the judge, she reaches something of a resolution and stops caring so deeply, it seems, about everything. Whether this is the best attitude for a named partner remains to be seen!
Now, with Barbara Kolstad's sudden departure being addressed with nothing so much as a wave from across, the firm is now "Reddick, Boseman and Lockhart" which I guess was inevitable but it wasn't really explained. That and the Rindell case seemingly swept under the carpet in short order prior to this episode, seems to suggest were going to move in a different direction from the previous storylines. We'll have to see where it takes us!
The Good Wife: End (2016)
Forever a mystery
I dislike shows coming to an end, something about me likes to continue to inhabit this world that now exists in my head. I'll be honest, I stopped watching the episode after about 10 minutes. The courtroom action started to get a little silly and I was worried the series wouldn't resolve to my satisfaction, so I turned it off.
So a happy ending will always exist in my head. Series 7 has been a fitting tribute to a brilliant show and I laughed and cried more in some of the later episodes than in the rest of the show.
I know this isn't really a review, I'm sorry