Stuff you do when you're feeling bleargh!

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Okay, so when you're not feeling well you're supposed to comfort yourself with undemanding telly, aren't you? Well, The Wire can't really be called undemanding, so I've been watching The Good Wife too, 2 episodes of season 1 so far, and even though it's definitely undemanding, I have learnt a few things from it.

Spoilers within for the first two eps of The Good Wife.



1) American culture is very, very macho. It makes us Brits look like a bunch of big girlies skipping through the daisies. Even their hypocrisy is more manly than ours.
2) Liberal judges in the US are obviously rubbish, even if they are sunlighting from their night job as vampire king of Mississippi.
3) The sainted Alicia is really annoying. I can sort of understand her husband's behaviour.
4) Archie Panjabi is awesome. I'm pretending to myself that her character's name is Kulwinder instead of Kalindra, or whatever the hell it's supposed to be. Never heard of that name. She looks like a Kulwinder to me.

Comments

[calturner.livejournal.com]

I love The Good Wife. It isn't a show I'm fannish about in the slightest, but it's very entertaining. :)

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I've quite enjoyed it so far, but I can't imagine getting fannish about it.

[ningloreth.livejournal.com]

Oh, do keep watching 'The Good Wife'!

I actually like Alica but, even if I didn't, the other characters would be enough to keep me interested. (I'm sort of a Will/Alicia shipper ;-) Later in the series, Alan Cummings joins the cast, and he's brilliant (as always). The stories are usually quite creative, too.

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Ooh, Alan Cummings! I do like him. I've watched ep 3 now. It was a little dull, I'm afraid. I kept being distracted by the shortness of Archie Panjabi's skirt.

[queenofthorns.livejournal.com]

I watched "The Good Wife" for a while, because it was clearly based on a real-life scandal in New York State, where our former governor was caught with a prostitute. (He didn't go to prison or anything, but there were clear similarities to the situation on the show.) I liked the show well enough but I didn't find it compelling enough to remember to watch every week. And now I'm over one season behind!

(Agree on Kalinda and the Archie Punjabi love.)

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I liked the show well enough but I didn't find it compelling enough to remember to watch every week.

To be honest, there's no way I'd be watching if someone hadn't given me the box set for Christmas. I can't be bothered to tune in for shows I like a hell of a lot more than this.

It's okay, though.

I don't understand Archie Panjabi's role that well. She seems to be like a P.I. attached to this law firm. I didn't know there were people like that. Also, have you ever come across anyone Indian called Kalinda? I haven't. I googled the name and ended up on a site about baby names, which insisted that 'kalinda' meant 'sun' in Hindi, which I know it doesn't.

[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

Kulwinder is awesome! I do watch the show mainly for her and Christine Baranski's character, who is also pretty kick ass.

Alicia herself is not my cuppa, but I like the show for having great female characters to chose from.

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Is Christine Baranski the scary older woman, or haven't I met her yet? I'm only three episodes in.

[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's probably her.

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She's interesting. Haven't learned much about her yet. She has a very odd nose, though. Why can't people leave their noses alone?

[yourlibrarian]

Even their hypocrisy is more manly than ours.

Ha, I love that observation!

I have a friend who's been watching and has suggested it to me but I'm not into procedurals and it looked like that's what this was.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Trust me, it's not a procedural. They spend relatively little time on the case of the week. It's actually more like The West Wing - about legal politics.

[yourlibrarian]

That does sound more interesting.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Deals a lot with the back-biting, back dealing, and what it is like to be a woman in business in the US. Specifically in the legal world.

There's a B-plot line or case, but it's more in the background than in shows such as the Closer. Really isn't a procedural drama at all. But it did sort of start out like that...so confused a lot of people.

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Parts of the first three episodes have a procedural air about them, but there is more to it. I'm not a fan of procedurals either so am looking forward to more relationship stuff. What fascinates me so far are the machinations that go on at this law firm and the way the women have to be all power suited and macho to fit in.

Mind you, the main character doesn't really fit that stereotype, which is supposed to be a story point, I suppose, but where I am currently (three episodes in) just gives her too much protagonist privilege IMO.