Did any of you watch The Good Wife premier last night? It was REALLY good! The Fall season is beginning now & all of my favorite shows are coming back, plus some new ones are beginning. Such as The Good Wife. Also, I want to check out Cougar Town, the one with Courtney Cox-Arquette, but I'm not sure when or where it comes on. I'll have to look it up.
So, anyway, The Good Wife is a new legal drama with Julianna Margulies & Chris Noth (Mr. Big). It is less about him being the cheating politician husband & more about her trying to get on with her life & become the bread-winner after being a stay-at-home mom for 14 years. Chris Noth plays Peter Florrick, an Illinois state's attorney who gets caught up in a prostitution/sex scandal. It starts out with him holding a press conference & assuring the public that nothing he has done has come out of state funds, etc., etc., etc. You know, politician stuff. Anyway, that's the end of that. And then it says "6 months later" & shows her going to a new job at a law firm. You don't know until about 1/2-way through the show that the reason she's going back to work is that he's locked up. He got convicted of some kind of "abuse of office" charges & is in prison. He finds out that the Court will hear his appeal, which he lets her know in a voice mail toward the end of the show. Anyway, the law firm gives her a pro bono case her first day on the job that has a hearing that SAME DAY! And it's a murder case! Crazy! Anyway, I won't go into all the details of the case, but she ends up winning the case.
The show is mostly about her trying to rebuild a life for her & her kids, & less about the scandal of her husband. Of course, it frequently shows incidents in which her husband's former position & scandal are still affecting her life, but the show is not necessarilly about the scandal as much as it is about "The Good Wife". Great show in my opinion. Watch it!
So, anyway, The Good Wife is a new legal drama with Julianna Margulies & Chris Noth (Mr. Big). It is less about him being the cheating politician husband & more about her trying to get on with her life & become the bread-winner after being a stay-at-home mom for 14 years. Chris Noth plays Peter Florrick, an Illinois state's attorney who gets caught up in a prostitution/sex scandal. It starts out with him holding a press conference & assuring the public that nothing he has done has come out of state funds, etc., etc., etc. You know, politician stuff. Anyway, that's the end of that. And then it says "6 months later" & shows her going to a new job at a law firm. You don't know until about 1/2-way through the show that the reason she's going back to work is that he's locked up. He got convicted of some kind of "abuse of office" charges & is in prison. He finds out that the Court will hear his appeal, which he lets her know in a voice mail toward the end of the show. Anyway, the law firm gives her a pro bono case her first day on the job that has a hearing that SAME DAY! And it's a murder case! Crazy! Anyway, I won't go into all the details of the case, but she ends up winning the case.
The show is mostly about her trying to rebuild a life for her & her kids, & less about the scandal of her husband. Of course, it frequently shows incidents in which her husband's former position & scandal are still affecting her life, but the show is not necessarilly about the scandal as much as it is about "The Good Wife". Great show in my opinion. Watch it!
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