The Good Wife: 3x15 Live from Damascus.
- Heavy-handed topical (not sure why it bothered me in this specific case) case against a software firm that also provides tyrannical regimes with means to find dissenters, which lead to death of American citizens involved in the protests in Syria.
- Will's problems didn't go away because Wendy anonymously contacted the bar association About Baltimore. Diane was shocked an intervened on his behalf, telling the good-hearted lawyers involved in the decision that he personally pursued the pro bono stuff (which he actually violently opposed when she suggested it). He's offered the opportunity to take off six months, which people seem to think will turn him into a crazy, homeless person or something. While thinking about what a bad person he used to be and what a good person he is trying to become, he tells one of L&G's most important clients he cares more about the grieving family than his business interest (if this is seriously the most professional way to handle conflict of interest in a huge law firm, L&G is in trouble anyway).
- Will admitted he deserved punishment for his mistake, and the most surprising people reacted with a "What, you say, actions should have consequences?"
- Will accepted the six months and is now supposedly off to do something with a baseball bat / write a rock opera / hang out with his awesome sister who was just awesomely cast.
- Sort of good thing that came from the main plot: the comparison between Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring was exposed as the ridiculous, arrogant, stupid idiocy it is. Also, Judge Abernathy cried, but it was because of pepper spray.
- Caitlin! She is turning into someone important and interesting, I think, and it would be a perfect move for the show to sort of punish Alicia for never taking her seriously enough (like underestimating Caitlin's ability to correctly interpret the defence offering her a job, just because Alicia once made that mistake). It's also really great to see that she mostly stands in rooms, watching closely, learning.
- Dana's been demoted while Cary got off okay from the Will debacle, and she seems to be out for revenge at well (supposedly against any- and everyone, including Peter, Cary and Kalinda?)
- Talking about Kalinda: she lost a friend in Syria, and in the most interesting twist of the episode, Alicia was handled a pile of files about Kalinda containing stuff that Will was handling for her...
- Which is super-cool, because FINALLY this is all going somewhere and she hesitated to accept the files and I think she finally did because of several reasons. Diane also told her that she should have a conversation with Kalinda "as soon as possible", and I think Alicia would very much prefer to HEAR what's in the files from Kalinda instead of just reading it.
- The broken lamp in (Will's?) office gave the conversations held inside interesting connotations - he and Alicia literally sneaking around in the dark, etc.
- Something about Eli still being in love with his ex-wife and frustrated about Amy Sedaris' incompetence as her campaign manager. I enjoy each of the actors individually but somehow, the season has so far failed to make this entire storyline anything but comic relief and I WANT IT TO BECOME RELEVANT to whatever the bigger picture is.
- But mostly, I just want that conversation between Alicia and Kalinda, because they are in such a weird place, no longer fighting, but also not friends. Kalinda would probably do a better job helping Alicia if she weren't only guessing what Alicia needed (it's like she has a constantly running sub-programme, checking every situation for potential threats for Alicia, acting accordingly and always treating these threats with the highest priority... which of course Alicia has done for Kalinda as well, getting her out of prison, and presumably, that pile of information and unfinished story lines (the mysterious husband...) will give her plenty more opportunities.
- I really, really used to love Azure Ray back when Saddle Creek was the shit.
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