The Good Wife herself is floundering

This week’s return of Colin Sweeney (Dylan Baker) to The Good Wife caused less of a spectacle than his presence has in the past. It’s always great to see him, and I find his relationship with Alicia to be rather interesting, but his role in this story didn’t allow for as much interplay between the two as they’ve had in the past. Oh well … at least we got to see him again. And the fact that he’s back out on the street means its only a matter of time before he’s implicated in another crime. So he might yet be back.

The rest of the case-of-the-week was less than thrilling. It was fine — the opening scene with cuts of the trial interspersed with the whistleblower’s assembly of a new gun was done really well — but was really nothing to write home about.

So what was? Eli’s story continues to be interesting, and this week he began to give us a peak at his plans for Peter’s future career. You’d think it would be a bit early for anyone to be lining up a keynote speaker for the Democratic National Convention — to be held in the summer of 2012 — but who knows. I enjoyed seeing Eli go after Peter’s potential competition, and I got a good laugh at Kalinda’s refusal to continue on the project once she learned that it was for Peter. All of a sudden she’s a paradigm of virtue? She already slept with him … will not helping on his gubernatorial run serve to reconcile her and Alicia? Unlikely.

Meanwhile, what does Eli plan on doing to reconcile Peter and Alicia? And why is he obsessed with Peter’s career? He’s so convinced that Peter should be governor that he’s willing to become a marriage counselor? Is it Peter, or is it that Peter potentially represents Eli’s shot at steering a national campaign? I’m not so sure it isn’t the latter, because for sure Eli likes Alicia more than he likes Peter. I loved when Eli strolled over to Alicia’s side of the office and asked her about the trial, trying to make nice with her. “Great, great” was his response to her successful conclusion to the case. That was awesome!

The rest of the episode wasn’t quite as good. I don’t know why Lisa Edelstein had to be back (yes, for the trial, but you know what I mean), but I sincerely hope that she’s finally gone for good. I’m really not enjoying her character, Celeste.

And Alicia’s story was ridiculous. Charged with hiring a new first year associate that she’s to mentor, Alicia ends up locking horns with David Lee over his niece, Caitlin D’arcy (Anna Camp). Boring! And also kind of dumb … was it a surprise to Alicia that Will had hooked her up with a job? Maybe she didn’t know that “You were the Caitlin” — no offense, but Caitlin seemed to lack the intellect to manage the job. Alicia may have been second best, but she certainly was qualified, unlike Caitlin — but why did it seem to come as such a surprise to her that Will had helped her out? And was his vote for Caitlin really, as Celeste would say, Will disappointing Alicia in the end?

Double boring! So far this season, Alicia is not doing well. What’s happening?

Clacked by Aryeh S.
on Oct 25, 2011 @ 13:42 EST5EDT