The Good Wife – Are Derrick Bond’s days numbered?

Ah, the wild roller coaster that is The Good Wife lately. They say that what goes up must come down, but does it have to keep on happening over and over again?

For me it’s the lack of predictability … suddenly you never know which show you’re going to get when you tune in. Will it be all about the firm? Peter’s campaign? Or will there be a solid trial at its heart? Even then sometimes the trial can fail you.

As it did last night. I think the only thing of significance amidst all of the nonsense was how the case touched Lemond Bishop (Mike Colter). Bond is courting Bishop’s business, and defending Joey Church (Dion Graham) was a good start. Bravo.

But the investigation was so all over the place, between Alicia being locked out of the strategy sessions and Cary dealing with budget problems at the State’s Attorney’s office. Cary’s investigator/Mr. Mom Andrew (Tim Guinee) was awesome — I hope we see more of him — but I just couldn’t get into the trial.

Luckily there are many other things to choose from on The Good Wife; unfortunately they’re not always any better … first there was Blake, who may or may not have been tailing Cary. Maybe it’s just me, but I was practically rolling on the floor laughing at Cary as he tough-guyed it up in Blake’s face. Blake can squash Cary like a bug, so he should think a second before he pulls something like that again.

Then there’s Childs investigating Kalinda for being too good … I mean, for getting too much outside help. Does he forget that Kalinda worked under Peter when Peter was the State’s Attorney? Of course people leak to her, that’s how she gets her job done. His vendetta by proxy against the firm that employs Peter’s wife as a second year associate is pathetic. But that doesn’t mean that Cary couldn’t have been more of a man and tried to protect Kalinda.

Then there were the many messes with the campaign. Wendy (Anika Noni Rose) being slurred by Peter’s PAC — that Peter told to get lost but which I’m guessing miraculously won’t be the end of his campaign — someone slurring Peter via Zach … the whole thing’s a mess. I will say, though, that Eli going up against Becca (Dreama Walker), calling her “My opponent,” and essentially saying that he had expended resources on investigating her … really sad. Eli looked about one inch tall there, going face-to-face with a teenage girl. The Florrick kids — and their worlds — should be left out of the campaign part of the show, because it’s all just sad.

Where to next? Will and Diane playacting for Bond’s sake was ridiculous, as was Peter wanting back in the bedroom. His attitude of “Why are you being so stubborn?” handily ignores the minor fact that he cheated on Alicia repeatedly. He is just her roommate.

What did I enjoy? The brilliance behind the idea of fashioning someone else’s toothbrush into a prison shiv — an easy DNA trace back to someone else! Also, that whole “X Detector” lie detector thing; imagine using an Xbox as a fake lie detector. And did you notice Alicia in the copy room at Peter’s campaign headquarters, trying to match the clearly light blue paper with the plain-to-the-naked-eye darker shaded blue copy paper on the shelves? Great investigative skills!

Clacked by Aryeh S.
on Feb 02, 2011 @ 14:30 EST5EDT