# "The Good Wife" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 23, 2009, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-wife/511193 "2009-09-23T03:01:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-wife/511193/1 "2009-09-23T03:01:35Z")
I’ve really been looking forward to this. They have a great cast (Juliana Margulies, Chris Noth, Christine Baranski, the guy from “Sportsnight” who isn’t Peter Krause), plus it’s a good old-fashioned legal show, which have been in short supply the last few years. And, yay, it was a strong opening – I have high hopes for this. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-wife/511193/2 "2009-09-23T03:13:25Z")
I hope they explore the relationship between her and her husband and why she’s stood by him. ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-wife/511193/3 "2009-09-23T04:23:42Z")
Bolding mine… > [@twickster](#): > > I’ve really been looking forward to this. They have a great cast (Juliana Margulies, **Chris Noth** , Christine Baranski, **the guy from “Sportsnight” who isn’t Peter Krause** ), plus it’s a good old-fashioned legal show, which have been in short supply the last few years. > > And, yay, it was a strong opening – I have high hopes for this. Wait … wait … Chris Noth _and_ Josh Charles? Are you freakin _kidding me_? (choie drops in a dead faint from an overload of lasciviousess, then briefly wakes up to add – ) I knew Noth was in it, but Josh Charles – oh my! Is his part significant? (back to swooning…) ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-wife/511193/4 "2009-09-23T05:48:46Z")
I just happened to see this because I was babysitting and CBS just happened to be on, and I really liked it – I would definitely watch it again. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-wife/511193/5 "2009-09-23T06:33:18Z")
I can already see the formula: Wife gets a new case, the young hot shots at the firm think she can’t handle it, she goes to jail and gets the secret inside scoop from Hubby, fights with the new DA some more, and wins. Could be good tho. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-wife/511193/6 "2009-09-23T12:38:33Z")
It wasn’t bad. It had some eye-rolly elements, such as the cliche of a high-powered law firm environment where everyone is walking and talking a mile a minute because time is money, people, while the somewhat bewildered newbie just stands there with a “what the hell did I get myself into” expression on her face. But it was OK. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-wife/511193/7 "2009-09-23T12:52:52Z")
> [@choie](#): > > I knew Noth was in it, but Josh Charles – oh my! Is his part significant? He plays an old friend of Juliana Margulies from law school who’s at the law firm where she just started working. Major secondary character, if that makes sense. (Possible future love interest? or at least love complication?) A fifth person who was of interest to me since yesterday afternoon I completed my viewing of the complete run of “Gilmore Girls” (a project that began in February) was Matt Czrusomethingpolish, who played Logan in that show for the last three seasons. **friedo** – yeah, pretty formulaic – but a formula show, well done, can be really entertaining. “LA Law,” the first couple of seasons of “The Practice” – as I said, there hasn’t been a good straight legal show in a while. (Nope, never saw a single episode of “Boston Legal,” for a variety reasons – wasn’t that kind of a jokey subtext deal, though?) ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-wife/511193/8 "2009-09-23T13:04:39Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > **friedo** – yeah, pretty formulaic – but a formula show, well done, can be really entertaining. You don’t need to tell me. I’ve seen every episode of _Law & Order_ ever. Not the spinoffs, though. They suck. ---
**Author:** ![Chopper9760](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Chopper9760](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chopper9760)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-wife/511193/9 "2009-09-23T13:46:22Z")
I liked the first episode, I fully expected it to suck but was pleasantly surprised. She did get some inside info from her husband…but she uncovered the security tape fraud on her own. That seemed like a fair compromise for the first episode. However, if they continue with that theme, if the husband keeps on giving her hints, doesn’t that make her character kind of pathetic? I suppose I’d take any help I could get in her position, I just don’t think it’ll be fun to watch if the asshole husband hand-holds her through her casework. I can bloody well tell I’m hooked because I care already - curses! I don’t what her to keep the husband, kick that prick to the curb honey. I like the actor that plays him though. Did anyone else wonder if her old friend is gay? He referred to her competing associate as the guy/boy in the \_\_\_\_\_-some kind of designer suit name. Sorry, that’s a craptastic quote but you get the idea. I didn’t get gay vibes from him at all but I wondered if that comment was a ham-handed hint from the writers. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-wife/511193/10 "2009-09-23T23:20:23Z")
Another Julianna Margulies vehicle that appears to be designed for a limited run. Cool. I liked David Paymer as a judge. Christine Baranski’s character a little too annoying. Good overall. I am already shipping Mrs Florrick & Titus Welliver’s character (Giles?). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-wife/511193/11 "2009-09-24T01:21:48Z")
Hmmm. Sounds a lot like _The Politician’s Wife_, a British TV movie starring Juliet Stevenson (although without the law-firm angle): [The Politician's Wife (TV Mini Series 1995) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112126/) ---
**Author:** ![jacquilynne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@jacquilynne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacquilynne)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-wife/511193/12 "2009-09-24T03:02:00Z")
I watched it, and I’ll watch it again, but I have to say I found the actual case-related stuff – at least after the cat lady bit, which was good, and different – pretty obvious. Was anyone surprised about the doctored tapes and the lazy security guard? Anyone? No? Me, neither. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-wife/511193/13 "2009-10-11T19:43:30Z")
Having seen a few of these, I have to say, I like the ways she finds errors in the prosecutions’ cases. It could get to be an annoying trope, but there have been some clever uses of it so far.