The Good Fight

Fan of 'The Good Wife' and thought this show would be like that one but I was mistaken. I don't ever remember that show having direct attacks and plot focus on when it ran when Obama was President; while this show seems to makes an obnoxious point to include some type of Trump scandal in every episode. No matter your political belief, if a show is going to include attacks against any political person or view, I don't think they should be so focused on that being a main part of the entire plot of the show and to be so hypocritical of always attacking one side of political beliefs. Like I mentioned, it doesn't matter what side of the political party you're on, it just got so old that the people involved with creating the show have some vengeance they're trying to have the show reflect. This also includes bringing up race a lot and likes to make every 'villain' and issue caused by white people.

It's sad to see one of your favourite shows die. This has gone from being one of the best shows on TV to being a shadow of its former self. It used to be beautifully written and was biting in its criticism of U. S politics. The clever introduction of occasional cartoon style songs was a feature.

It has lost some wonderful cast members, Rose Leslie and Cush Jumbo amongst them.

The show managed to maintain a very high standard through to the end of season 4. Season 5 is appalling. The entire story line is amateurish, unfunny and tedious. I feel for the cast having to work with the scripts they've been given.

I don't know whether they've changed the writers or they decided they'd hand Season 5 over to a computer so it could be written by AI. I've kept watching through loyalty to the show in the desperate hope things would get better but as the great Peter Finch once said, "I'm as Mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more.". I lasted to episode 8, season 5. I really can't take any more.

Maybe they'll have a series 6 Dallas style where season 5 has all been a dream. Should I say nightmare.

Seasons 1-4 deserve a 9/10. Season 5 I'd give a 1/10.

It's a tragedy when a great show dies.

Many times I've thought that this one of the best programs on TV. It is has great acting, clever witty dialog and great stories. Like its predecessor, The Good Wife, many of the storylines are enticing food for thought.

The only critique I have is that the show can get overly political. At some point, it stops being compelling story telling and sounds like a rant. It may be a rant I agree with but ... it's just not fun to watch. It feels like I'm re-living yesterday's news instead of breaking new ground.

The writers can be brilliant so I hope they get some a fresh ideas for the next season. Let's get some new unpredictable storylines and interesting cases ... it'll be great for the show.

Exceptional cast and great story-line opportunities. Unfortunately actors can only do so much when working with an ideologically captured writing team. I can understand incorporating current events and climates, but to have absolutely everything be focused on race or politics (especially blatantly one-sided politics) gets old really fast, and that comes from someone with no political leanings. Most people don't watch television or films to have a narrative constantly shoved down their throats, it's to escape the ills of the world and focus on something else entirely. Otherwise we'd exclusively watch documentaries. The incorporation of silly cartoons meant to do nothing other than push one specific narrative was also lazy and tiring. There was such a good opportunity here to create another great show like "The Good Wife", yet it fell drastically short of even palatable entertainment. In the words of Morgan Freeman: "Stop talking about it. I'm going to stop calling you a white man, and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man." Can't we just return to great entertainment with creative story-lines?

Up front I will state that I am a big fan of The Good Wife and Julianna Margulies and took a while to get over it ending, very much like when any good TV show ends.

I waited until I had almost all of the episodes of this series before I talked my partner into watching it.

After the first episode I didn't have to talk her into any further episodes, we binge watched the whole season in one weekend.

Wow is the one word I would use to describe this show.

So many good actors and characters who are just make for a really great show IMHO.

Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart, Cush Jumbo as Lucca Quinn, Rose Leslie as Maia Rindell and Delroy Lindo as Adrian Boseman just a few of the characters I just love and they put in stellar performances.

Add Carrie Preston as the wacky and sublime Elsbeth Tascioni and you have a huge hit in my eyes.

If you haven't seen it yet, get a copy and enjoy.