TV #53 of 2022: The Good Fight, season 6 A relatively strong end to a perpetually-messy series that nevertheless captured a lot of the tension of life in a time of rising American fascism. Did Andre Braugher need to get brought in as the firm’s latest named partner? No, not particularly. Was the season weakened …
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TV Review: The Good Fight, season 5
TV #68 of 2021: The Good Fight, season 5 This series bounces back to a degree after its all-time low of the previous year, but I’m still not altogether vibing with its distinctive brand of wacky and surreal satire. The big idea this season is that people are taking civil suits before an unofficial neighborhood …
TV Review: The Good Fight, season 4
TV #25 of 2021: The Good Fight, season 4 I want to acknowledge up-front that this latest run of the streaming Good Wife spinoff had its production cut short by the coronavirus outbreak, losing the final few episodes the writers must surely have expected they’d be able to use to wrap up various plotlines. As …
TV Review: The Good Fight, season 3
TV #13 of 2021: The Good Fight, season 3 This series is still doing the best job of anything I’ve seen on TV at capturing the actual experience of living through the Trump presidency, and even as that era recedes behind us, it remains validating to see these protagonists grappling with the issues of family …
TV Review: The Good Fight, season 2
TV #2 of 2021: The Good Fight, season 2 Although still not hitting the dramatic heights of its parent series, especially in terms of personal stakes for the protagonist(s), this second year of The Good Fight remains quite riveting. It’s been the tale of high-powered liberal attorneys in the Trump era all along, but the …
TV Review: The Good Fight, season 1
TV #48 of 2020: The Good Fight, season 1 So far this streaming spinoff sequel isn’t quite hitting the heights of its network forebear, but at least it picks the franchise back up after the dull plotting and inconsistent character work that plagued the end of The Good Wife. My biggest complaint about this first …
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