The Good Wife

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Unpopular opinion apparently, but I kind of loved The Good Wife series finale. It felt very fitting to me that Alicia would end the series still choosing to stand by Peter, even while chasing her fantasies of other men. It was definitely a very cold and lonely ending for her character, but it would have felt fake if the show did try and force a happy ending with Jason, or a close partnership for Alicia and Diane. Sometimes I wondered at how the King's spoke about Alicia in interviews, but the finale really made me feel like they completely got her character all along and ended it in the right place for her.

A lot of the complaints at ohnotheydidnt actually seem to be related to the King's interviews comparing Alicia to Peter, there were quite a few comments along the lines of how people feel that the show never actually showed Alicia becoming as corrupt and terrible as Peter, but then I never saw it as the King's making such a direct comparison between them? Rather it worked for me more on a symbolic level when it came to Alicia actually becoming that kind of ruthless and power hungry character that she had been a victim of at the start of the series, that Alicia is now the one sacrificing others to get ahead, not to mention shattering Diane's illusions about her marriage in a direct call-back to Peter/Alicia from the pilot. There have been parallels between Peter and Alicia's characters all along really, so I'm not sure why the final scene making it more explicit has so many people up in arms :shrug:

Really my only dissatisfaction was how open-ended it was for Diane and Kurt, I need to know that their marriage will get through this :( Urgh that scene of Diane in court was just devastating. It doesn't really surprise me at this point though that the rest of the cast will get short shift, and I suppose that again it would have felt wrong somehow if the finale wasn't pretty much all about Alicia's character, that's where things have been headed for a while now. And at least it did end things with Alicia in an interesting place

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I think it was the dullest finale ever, but it sure was in keeping with what the show had decided to become this last year/these last two years.

Basically, I agree with all your points, except that it's not what I wanted from this show. I miss the greatness of the first 5 seasons.

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Lol well no argument from me that the show never lived up to seasons 1-5 again, but I'm happy that the finale did end things in an interesting place for me at least, it felt very full-circle. It was definitely tough to care about season 7 though as Alicia grew more and more isolated and cold