Were julianna margulies and archie panjabi actually sitting at the same bar during alicia florrick and kalinda sharmas goodbye scene in the season 6 finale of the good wife on sunday night. The series finale will air sunday, may 8, the network confirmed in a. The good wifes last episode sunday night on cbs certainly left something to be desired in terms of full conclusions, but the finale was right in line with how our best tv shows end in this. Read speakeasys recap of the latest episode of the good wife, titled wanna partner. In a video interview, the good wife creators explained their intentions with the finale. The seventh season of the good wife was ordered on may 11, 2015, by cbs. There are variations, like in manhattan, you chase the person down and there is. Years from now, when we look back, itll fall under the they dont make em like they used to category. End was a thoroughly and deeply unsatisfying way for the good wife to take its final bow, a bit. The good wife ended its sevenseason, 156 episode run in the same way it started.
The good wife bosses on peters new opponent and wrapping. She returns to her old job as a defense attorney under will gardner and diane lockhart josh charles and. The first season of the good wife received critical acclaim. The cbs drama rose 20 percent in the key 1849 demographic last night with its lastever episode. Jeff dellinger, a former nsa employee, changes his mind about entering the us from canada at the last minute at the us preclearance. Cary discovers that his firm is getting out of touch. One of the strengths of the early seasons was that the characters were realistic. Good wife spinoff and why she was shaken by that finale slap.
On the good wife season 7 episode 20, everything goes wrong at a party to celebrate howard and jackies upcoming wedding while eli asks jason to investigate peter. Your last time with the loved one will always remain your last time. While the good wife in no way hits the finale lows of lost or the xfiles, there is a tonal shift in the last half of the seventh season that puts the rest of the series trajectory in doubt. Why the good wife creators think that finale was a tragedy. The good wife is a drama starring julianna margulies as a wife and mother who boldly reenters the workforce after her husbands very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail. Before tuning in to the series finale, heres everything you need to know. Cbs used tvs biggest platform the super bowl to confirm that the current season of the good wife will be its last.
Cbs and abc have been losing credibility by the internet click through the last five to ten years. The good wife is a holdover from an earlier age of network. The beloved chicago lawyer, played by christine baranski, returns in her own cbs all access spinoff. Panjabi opted to leave the good wife at the end of its current, sixth. After seven acclaimed seasons, the good wife closed its doors not with julianna marguiles character alicia florrick, finally finding an. The good wife kept up their impressive storytelling over long, 22episode seasons that rivaled shows like breaking bad and house of cards.
The good wifes lowkey season finale felt less like a summation than the opening argument for the 201516 campaign. The good wife series finale recap hollywood reporter. I think ill just pretend that party was the actual series finale. The good wife creators robert and michelle king weigh in on the ending that even star julianna margulies said would be very divisive. Apparently the good wife liked that new toy, because most of this hour takes place, as the title suggests, in alicias minds eye. Creators robert and michelle king recently explained their decisions behind the final episode in a new. It was goodbye for the good wife last night as cbs aired the legal dramas series finale. A recap of the good wifes april 26 episode kalindas last. The good wife was a serialized procedural, which sounds like an oxymoron. The good wife finale reunites archie panjabi, julianna. As fans took to twitter to express their disappointment with the ending to the hugely popular series the good wife, creators michelle and robert king released a video to explain their choices. What the good wifes finale taught us about women, power.
The good wife ended its sevenseason, 156episode run in the same way it started. The good wife creators robert and michelle king recently explained the final scene of the cbs series and revealed an alternate ending, tvline reports. Good wife creators robert and michelle king admit they contemplated tying alicias sevenyear journey up in a neat little jasonadorned bow. Hours after the series finale of the good wife aired, creators robert and michelle king got on the phone to discuss the closer, which robert king admitted had sparked controversy and a. The cbs dramas dramatic finale brought a sad but fitting end to a show that. The drama stars julianna margulies as alicia florrick, a disgraced wife who returns to work as a lawyer after her husband, peter florrick, is imprisoned following a scandal. The show tells the story of alicia florrick julianna margulies, whose husband peter has been jailed following a very public sex and corruption scandal.
Alicia hires a new investigator, and a new friend from bond court helps. Visit tunefind for music from your favorite tv shows and movies. The good wife is a legal drama television series created by robert king and michelle king, which premiered on cbs on september 22, 2009. The good wife finale ended with a divisive scene that shocked viewers, but the creators say it was always part of their plan for the last episode. The series last scene is eerily similar to its first. Alicia and jason kissed in an elevator, because this is the good wife and elevators are where some of the most personal, emotional, timing. The good wife soundtrack complete song list tunefind. The good wife has been named one of afis top television shows, won the television critics award for outstanding achievement in drama and garnered five emmy nominations and three golden globe nominations. The good wife wrapped its sevenseason run in may, but diane. It didnt need need a slap or if it was going to engineer one, it needed to start that process much, much. Do you think the good wife can bounce back in its ohso. The websites consensus reads, along with julianna margulies and a fine cast, the gripping drama the good wife, boasts hookheavy plotlines torn from the headlines.
Peter at a press conference announcing his resignation and his plea deal and thanking everyone for their support, most importantly his wife. The good wife executive producers robert and michelle king discuss wrapping up the legal drama after seven remarkable seasons on cbs. In total viewers, the julianna margulies series was up 1. The americans was rooted in certain realities of the late cold war, but that just meant it could scramble your obvious loyalties, like any great work of historical revisionism. A couple times earlier in the season, alicia would imagine people talking to her, in an attempt to give her an inner life. The good wife s last hour had plenty of those, and thats all it needed. In the interview, the kings also explain why alicia betrayed diane it was collateral damage and who alicia would end up with. The good wifes romantic entanglements were fun, but they were secondary to the story of alicias journey from political wife to selfdetermined woman, pushing back against the status quo. We started with this feeling that it should begin with a slap and end with a slap. There have been so many the splitting of cary and alicia from lockhartgardner was great. All the conflicts alicia had to contend with and the decisions she would have to have considered was terrific. The good wife began, seven seasons ago, with a scene of a broken marriage. Hours after the series finale of the good wife aired, creators robert and. The good wife season 6 finale, which also marked archie panjabis final episode as investigator extraordinaire kalinda.
The good wife has always excelled at cheekily dramatizing alicias mind at work, and the final episode centered on an inner dialogue she staged, with herself, through a series of imagined. Luckily, the producers of cbss muchloved legal drama the good wife didnt have to worry about that, a little bonus of mr. Good wife creators explain series finale ending, slap. You almost had me, good wife finale, right until the end. Kalinda and alicias final scene on the good wife was utterly. As alicia struggles to get her career back on track, she stumbles on a case that puts her up against diane lockhart and david lee. The good wife just staged its latest major elevator moment. I cant risk being away from you until youre thirty. Series creators explain the last episode by jessica pena, may 9, 2016 it was goodbye for the good wife last night as cbs aired the legal dramas series finale. The final episode of the good wife airs may 8, and its truly the end of era. The good wife creators explain that slap in series finale video.
Christine baranski on good wife spinoff and why she was. When the good wife bid farewell to josh charles who played will last season, his exit was melodramatic and more than a little silly. Season 1 season 2 season 3 season 4 season 5 season 6 season 7. As fans took to twitter to express their disappointment with the ending to the hugely popular series the good wife, creators michelle and robert king released a. When it did the same for archie panjabi in sunday nights episode the deconstruction a surprise move, coming two weeks before the end of the season it was the opposite. The most famous variation on it that you might be familiar with is from the. The good wife wrapped its sevenseason run in may, but diane lockharts story is far from over. Good wife final season confirmed hollywood reporter. A shocking confrontation between alicia and diane reveals that the last seven seasons were never leading to a. The good wife is so great at these messy situations see. The plot is laid out for us at the start of the hour.