If you’re new to The Good Wife, you’ve picked a good place
to join us. Season five hit the ground running with a new governor and a new
firm. The season four cliffhanger about whether or not Alicia will leave
Lockhardt Gardner to join Cary is immediately answered—Florrick Agos will be up
and running in the next few weeks. Now that we’ve established Cary and Alicia
are leaving, the episode leaves us with the question of how they tell Will and
Diane, stay until they get their bonuses, and take enough big clients to stay
in business at the same time.
As usual, the character-driven procedural keeps us interested through the relationships, not necessarily the case of the week. But this week’s case was particularly brutal. Was it just me, or was the intensity of twice seeing a man almost intravenously executed a little...
Ronald Reagan popularized the phrase "trust but
verify", but it would seem that the world of The Blacklist did not get that memo.
Well, this is disappointing. No, not the episode. My lede. I had a great little gimmick all ready to go centered the color red and the
several red herrings that occurred in this episode.
This was the pilot. Pilots are weird. There’s usually a lot
of time between when the first episode is shot and when it gets picked up for a
full season, giving writers and producers time to think, change and adjust
between that first episode and the rest of the season. Sometimes we’re
introduced to characters we never see again. Sometimes writers decide to go a
completely different direction with a character. And more often than not, the
set gets a makeover. So don’t judge a show by its pilot.
The premise is clever, Michael J. Fox is
cute, Parkinson’s is a pain, and that’s about all you need to know about NBC’s
new “Michael J. Fox” show. Unfortunately, NBC made the horrible mistake of
showing us all the funny parts in the wall-to-wall advertising they’ve
subjected football fans to over the last four weeks. Every laugh amounted to “Haha
so that's how this fits into the narrative now that I've seen it 100 times.”
This was a classic Modern
Family. And as such, I am upset.
Wanna know why I'm upset? (if you don't, why are you even reading???
Why?)
Not a good week for Cobie Smulders. Not. Good. At. All. 
Let me first just say that I am a big fan of How I Met Your Mother. By now, though,
you should know what's coming next.