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A legal drama series that aired for seven seasons (2009–16) on CBS, co-executive produced by Ridley Scott and starring Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Julianna Margulies.Alicia Florrick (Margulies) has a bit of a problem on her hands. Her husband was the former State’s Attorney of Cook County, Illinois, until he got caught being Eliot Spitzer/Bill Clinton and resigned. Then he got sent to prison for corruption.A trained lawyer, Alicia returns to practice at the Chicago law firm of Lockhart/Gardner, run by Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski), her haughty sort-of mentor, and Will Gardner (Josh Charles), her former law school classmate (and potentially more). Alicia begins running the pro bono cases, but of course, she’s a defense lawyer and all the prosecutors know her — including new State’s Attorney, who may have shopped her husband to the authorities.Meanwhile, her husband Peter (Chris Noth) is trying to clear his name and potentially return to politics with the help of campaign manager Eli Gold (Alan Cumming). But he needs his "good wife" by his side, and Alicia isn't sure whether she wants to be with him anymore.The Good Fight, an aftershow focusing on Diane Lockhart, streamed on CBS All-Access (later Paramount+) from 2017–22. A second spinoff, Elsbeth (starring Carrie Preston, reprising her role from the series), will debut on CBS in 2023.A South Korean remake of the same title aired in 2016 for one season on tvN. A Japanese remake of the same title aired in January 2019 on TBS. An Indian remake titled The Trial aired in 2023 on Disney+ Hotstar. | |
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One episode features an internet billionaire who has had a film made about him which he thinks is defamatory, making him look like a jerk and implying he made his website in order to Get The Girl. Blowing this paper-thin No Celebrities Were Harmed right out of the water, he’s described on introduction as a ‘Mark Zuckerberg wannabe’. | |
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Cannot Tell a Joke: In ‘Restraint’, Eli tells Paige he’s working on his overly-serious demeanor, and he even ‘told a joke yesterday’. He tries to tell it, forgets it, then gets back to it later: | |
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Serial Killings, Specific Target: A case involved a man who had seemingly murdered his ex-wife by shooting her before committing a series of similar sniper attacks against other women (and one man) in order to deflect suspicion away from himself and make it look like his ex was simply the victim of a serial killer. But then it turns out that he didn't kill his ex or anyone else, and that there really is a serial killer, one with a pattern (he met all of the female victims through dating websites, so they all had the same astrological sign) and everything. Investigators had failed to discern this earlier because of how wholeheartedly convinced they were that the prime suspect did it, and because the male victim (who the killer had accidentally shot while aiming at someone else) threw them off. | |
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Heroic BSoD: Cary gets this throughout Season 6 when he's wrongly arrested on drug charges and it becomes increasingly likely that he'll go to prison, while suffering and waiting for his trial. Eli gets one in ‘Bond’ after Peter fires him when Alicia lets him run for president, but soon enough... | |
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Secret Test: In 'Parallel Construction, Bitches' Alicia is the target of a secret test carried out by Lemond Bishop, and he suspects her briefly before they discover it was in fact the NSA tapping the phones. As opposed to her being against Lemond. | |
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Ripped from the Headlines: One episode features an internet billionaire who has had a film made about him which he thinks is defamatory, making him look like a jerk and implying he made his website in order to Get The Girl. Blowing this paper-thin No Celebrities Were Harmed right out of the water, he’s described on introduction as a ‘Mark Zuckerberg wannabe’. The case in ‘Goliath And David’ is the Jonathan Coulton vs. Glee conflict about Coulton’s ‘Baby Got Back’ arrangement if it ever went to court. The show is not on Ryan Murphy’s side. In ‘Whack-a-Mole’, after a bombing in Milwaukee an Internet witch-hunt starts up on a website that is not Reddit. The witch is an Arab-American anthropology professor who kinda looks like a blurry photograph not-Reddit thinks is the bomber. This was clearly lifted from what happened on the real Reddit after the Boston Marathon bombings, with the following caveats: In the real incident the FBI shut down the witch-hunt by announcing who the actual suspects were, whereas in the show they were using not-Reddit to gather intel. The real Reddit didn't end up getting sued for defamation by the target of the witch-hunt. Peter discusses Ferguson, MI and The Rise of the Warrior Cop at the start of the episode ‘Message Discipline’. ‘The Debate’ starts with two disclaimers so the audience knows which headlines are being ripped. ‘This episode was written and filmed prior to the grand jury decisions in Ferguson and Staten Island’ and ‘All mentions of ‘Ferguson’ are in reference to the events in August, 2014 after the shooting death of Michael Brown.’ In ‘Undisclosed Recipients’, the firm’s emails get hacked. Alicia’s aren’t, because she’s been using her campaign email for the past four months. This episode premiered the same mouth a scandal erupted about Hilary Clinton using her personal email for Secretary of State business. Except that given the lack of time (the show’s production time is supposedly two and a half months), there’s no chance it was deliberate, making it accidentally Hilarious in Hindsight for something that hadn’t actually happened yet. ‘Loser Edit’ has a subplot involving Diane and a hypothetical situation where a bakery refuses to sell a wedding cake to a gay couple. There had been similar controversies for years, but the latest big one was less than a month old. The main plot of ‘Discovery’ was about ChumHum, which is already a thinly disguised Google/Facebook hybrid, getting in trouble for some of the same reasons Google did. Such as a photo-recognition algorithm identifying black people as animals. Which is explicitly compared to Google’s controversy over same. | |
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Cool Old Guy: Judge Michael Marx. An elderly fellow with a hearing aid, he, to everyone’s surprise, turns out to be well-versed in computer algorithms and the tech world in general. | |
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Spousal Privilege: Comes up in ‘Bang’, as the only person who can break the murderer’s alibi is his wife. | |
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Title Drop: Well, not quite, but Eli does say to Alicia in ‘Great Firewall’ that she’s ‘the good mother’. | |
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Defeat Means Friendship | |
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Defeat Means Friendship: A variation happens in ‘Tracks’. After the defeat in ‘Iowa’, as Ruth is packing, Eli says he wished he had been better to her. Ruth says she wishes he had been, too. | |
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The Sociopath: The judge that Jason Crouse (prior to his disbarment) beat up claims that the lawyer-turned-PI is a dangerous sociopath, who will be charming and calm until the moment he snaps and goes ballistic. Alicia isn’t sure if she should believe the judge. | |
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Downplayed, and usually their use is either condemned or backfires (as in the SA race between Peter and Glenn Childs—Glenn’s campaign manager resigns after his ad backfires horribly). | |
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The Cynic: Many people and often, but David Lee most of all. | |
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Joe Kent, a character who’s never seen on screen that the second season episode ‘V.I.P. Treatment’ revolves around. Kent is a well known and lauded philanthropist who has founded multiple charities and raised millions of dollars to advance the cause of women’s rights around the world, but the firm is contacted by a young massage therapist interested in filing a suit against him after reporting that he sexually harassed her in a hotel. The firm is at first reluctant to take the case and believes she may just be gold digging, but after some investigation and evidence of other women who have reported similar instances but never pressed charges or filed lawsuits, they become willing to pursue the case, despite aggressive threats from Kent’s legal team and an impassioned plea from Kent’s own wife stating that even if Kent is guilty, the damage to his reputation would harm his charitable work and do more harm to the cause of women. In the end, the massage therapist opts not to file suit, deciding that she wouldn't be able to emotionally and mentally handle going through the case, and it’s implied Kent successfully buries the allegations completely and gets away with his reputation fully intact. | |
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Did You Think I Can't Feel? | |
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Did You Think I Can't Feel?: From ‘Tracks’: | |
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Brother–Sister Team Alicia and Owen turn into this more and more. Zach and Grace. They take such good care of their Mom. | |
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Those Two Guys: The two young men who monitor Alicia’s conversations for the NSA. | |
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Disregard That Statement: Used by many characters, though they usually withdraw their statement as soon as the other side objects. | |
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In the Back: There’s a lot of this. Not least in Lockhart and Gardner. | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink: From ‘Lies’: In ‘Iowa’, Ruth says the same after they pull off the Full Grassley. At the end of the episode, she makes herself that drink after it turns out Peter lost Iowa. Alicia is also frequently shown knocking a drink back when the politics and stress of her job gets too much. | |
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Punch-Clock Villain: Louis Canning makes his money defending large corporations from clearly deserved lawsuits, and makes quite morally dubious use of his neurological disorder to sway the jury’s sympathy, or even distract them from damaging testimony. But outside the courtroom, he’s a perfectly nice guy and a devoted family man. He even justifies his defense of these companies by pointing out that the lawsuits that firms like Lockhart/Gardner pursue against them is a contributor in the price increases of all their products, including those he uses to help treat his chronic illness. In Season 3, Episode 10 ‘Parenting Made Easy’, Louis Canning genuinely helps Alicia search for her missing daughter, but the moment she is found safe, returns to his underhanded ways by looking in Alicia’s handbag for case information. In Season 7, he tries to capitalize on Alicia’s pariah state by offering her a partnership in his firm. Naturally, she refuses, but he keeps trying to get his foot in the door by sending her cases. Partly he does this to please his wife, who thinks of Alicia as a friend, but he himself sees her as his Friendly Enemy and knows that she would be a good addition to his team. | |
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Some of My Best Friends Are X: The wedding planner whose appeal R. D. wants to support in ‘Loser Edit’ claims in the mock trial that she’s not prejudiced against anyone, and mentions with a smile that her ‘very favorite florist’ is gay. R. D. himself tells Diane he has no problem with gay people, including his beloved gay nephew, but it’s same-sex marriage specifically that he disagrees with. Diane turns it on its head by having the aforementioned gay nephew play one of the witnesses in the mock trial, which seriously pisses R.D. off. | |
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Immediate Self-Contradiction: When a first-year associate wants to leave the law to become a mother, she claims she's not doing it for her fiance, but for herself. Then she immediately follows that up with "I like the law, but Ilove my fiance". | |
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Aborted Arc: The first season brought up revelations that Glenn Childs had tapped the Florricks’ phones and done other illegal things in a grab for power, and implied the feds were moving in to investigate. This was quickly forgotten as soon as the election arc started and Wendy Scott Carr took over as the primary antagonist. Kalinda’s husband was supposed to be around longer, but negative fan reaction led to it being (mostly) wrapped up sooner. | |
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Dirty Old Man: Colin Sweeney. Guy Redmayne, a potential donor both Alicia and Frank try to sway. He touches Alicia’s hands and just above her knee, making her visibly uncomfortable, and tells her he’ll support her because he ‘doesn’t like fags’, which he assumes Frank is (and Alicia tries to deny). When he meets with Frank, he talks about Alicia in the most sexist language he can come up with, until Frank is outraged and calls him out on it. | |
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Funny Background Event: One scene alternates between Will dealing with a blowhard political pundit in the conference room and Alicia dealing with a divorce case across the hall. When the focus is on Alicia, you can still hear the pundit railing and carrying on in the background. | |
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Third-Party Deal Breaker: After Will Gardner's funeral, Alicia and Diane go out for drinks, and randomly raise the prospect of a merger between their competing law firms. At the same time, they're representing opposing spouses in a divorce case and are on the verge of settling the issue amicably, when David Lee, having gotten wind of the proposed merger, intentionally drops antagonistic information into the divorce negotiations to scuttle both deals. | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Jackie Florrick, the mother in law/grandma nobody wants to have. Wendy Scott Carr. Maddie. Patti Nyholm tries to put on this front, as she will often antagonize Alicia and Will with a smile, often after showing off one of her kids to judges/witnesses in order to gain sympathy points. | |
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Rogue Juror: In "What Went Wrong," one of the jurors sneaks away to an Internet café to research a cop who testified. | |
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As horrific as Lemond Bishop’s business might be, he does his very best to be a good father to his son, after his own father left him when he was six. | |
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Bland-Name Product: Inverted when Will Gardner tries to make the firm more "hip" by re-branding Lockhart Gardner into LG. No one seems to mention that the Real Life LG Corporation might have something to say about that. This is promptly forgotten in later episodes, possibly due to the fact that the new name doesn't take off. Will tries to introduce himself to a prospective new lawyer as from "LG" only to get blank looks, forcing himself to go back to the old name. | |
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The Ingenue: Invoked by Nancy Crozier, who specializes in pretending to be just an inexperienced, attractive, innocent blonde lawyer new to the big city, batting her big blue eyes at the jury and judge. In one episode, Alicia counters her by having David Lee’s niece (who is younger, prettier, and less experienced, except her naivete is genuine) as second-chair. She promptly begins out-charming the judge, leading to Death Glares from Crozier. | |
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She Is All Grown Up: Alicia’s daughter Grace is starting to run into this trope in season 5. An attractive young woman, she starts dressing a little differently, and getting visible attention from men-often olden men. Alicia’s Mama Bear traits cause her to pick up on things that are maybe innocent, maybe not. Grace gets looks from Cary in one episode and then is talking to Carey Zepps, another attractive young man (but still much older than her), at the house, and Alicia is clearly disapproving. | |
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False Flag Operation: In ‘Iowa’, ‘Florrick Fanatic’ Neil Howard Sloan-Jacob’s antics become so outlandish Eli starts thinking he’s working for another candidate. | |
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Sleazy Politician | |
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Ultimately, Peter Florrick, after it's revealed that he was responsible for the ballot-stuffing scandal that scuttled Alicia's election as State's Attorney. Before this he was just sleazy. | |
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Insufferable Genius | |
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Insufferable Genius: Anthony Edward Dudewitz in ‘Driven’, who belittles the intelligence of everyone around him (and of humanity in general, giving much credence to the future intelligence of A.I) while referring to himself as a ‘genius’. Neil Gross. | |
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Previously on… | |
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Previously on…: For a show with season+ long storylines and such an expansive universe, these are surprisngly rare. The show prefers letting the audience catch up on their own, and its favorite start-of-episode-recap device is replaying the previous week’s cliffhanger (sometimes from a different perspective). | |
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Shipper on Deck | |
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Shipper on Deck: In ‘Foreign Affairs’, Kalinda encourages Will to confess his feelings for Alicia. May overlap with I Want My Beloved to Be Happy given Kalinda’s own feelings for Alicia. In season 5, one NSA guy says he thinks Will and Diane will get together. The other says their relationship isn’t sexual. | |
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Kick the Son of a Bitch | |
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Kick The Son Of A Bitch: Minor cases all over the place when an Amoral Attorney gets put in their place, but Alicia taking down Wendy Scott-Carr during the grand jury is a classic case. | |
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Hollywood Law | |
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Hollywood Law: Peter’s first day back in the State’s Attorney’s office comes with this insane declaration: no plea bargains. Something better than 95% of all cases are pled out before a trial these days, independent of jurisdiction. This is in part because it’s much less work to not have to fight a case out in front of a jury. The show itself is consistent in showing how much work is cut off for both sides when a plea is taken. So, while saying on one hand that the amount of hours the staff can work is being cut, he enforces a new policy that would exponentially increase the amount of work needed. In ‘Dark Money’, the firm has some evidence excluded because it was obtained from illegally hacking into a computer. However, the exclusionary rule applies only to illegally obtained evidence the government (or someone working on their behalf) collected and attempts to submit for a criminal case. They are not government employees, and this was a civil law suit. The judge could therefore not exclude this, though he would likely inform the police and they might face charges. | |
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Best Served Cold | |
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Best Served Cold: Wendy Scott Carr seems to just want to do her job, until she reveals to Will who she’s really after in season 3. | |
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Anguished Declaration of Love | |
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In ‘KSR’, Courtney buys Jason off of Alicia and leaves Eli for California, and Eli confesses to Alicia that he erased Will’s Anguished Declaration of Love from her voicemail box. | |
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This Means War! | |
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This Means War!: In ‘Bond’, Eli is furious about Peter firing him and hiring someone else when Alicia lets him run for president. | |
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That Was Objectionable | |
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That Was Objectionable: Lawyers yelling objection when a question hasn’t even been asked yet. Used intentionally by Alicia to aggravate Stern’s dementia and make him lose focus. | |
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Script Swap | |
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Script Swap: A variation. The teleprompter script remained the same, but the speaker changed from Alicia to Eli, leading to some hilarity (like him changing Peter’s kids’ diapers). Unfortunately, this is a sharp contrast to Alicia just finding out about Will’s death. | |
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Captain Obvious | |
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Captain Obvious: In season five, Will answers Alicia's phone and Grace asks if she can talk to her mother. Will points out that he has her phone. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: Kalinda is trying to establish the trust of somebody she thinks is a hacker. He points to the two federal agents sulking un-subtly over her shoulder. In ‘Restraint’, when Grace tries to rope in new clients by tricking them into thinking her mother’s firm is bigger than it is, she takes three computers and puts on office background noise to make it sound like she’s calling from a busy office. When one of them starts playing an ad about horses, she tells the client one of their lawyers is working on a horse-related case. | |
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Shut Up, Hannibal! | |
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Shut Up, Hannibal!: Downplayed when Louis Canning tries his playing-up-his-tardive-diskinesia-for-sympathy act on a paraplegic judge. The judge is not amused (his reaction amounted to ‘yeah, I’m disabled too, so what?’) and tells him to knock it off and present his case. | |
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Pie in the Face | |
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Pie in the Face: ‘The One Percent’ episode begins with a cream pie being prepared and then thrown in the face of a CEO by a protestor who pretended to be one of the catering staff at a board meeting. | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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Stylistic Suck: The episode "Dark Money" has Colin Sweeney suing for being portrayed in all but name on a fictional and rather cheesy TV drama. Alicia even finds a fictional version of herself represented on it. | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot: In ‘Driven’, Anthony Edward Dudewitz, the creator of a self-driving car, believes that A.I. could develop beyond humanity’s intelligence and overtake it (i.e. his version of The Singularity), and admits it might have happened with his own system when Alicia interrogates him. | |
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Elevator Going Down | |
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Elevator Going Down: At the end of ‘Closing Arguments’, Will and Alicia almost casually decide to resolve their WTWT and take a room at a hotel. Their elevator ride to the presidential suite starts off as an Uncomfortable Elevator Moment and gradually turns into this with every stop. | |
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Sound-Effect Bleep: In ‘Anatomy of a Joke’, car horn sounds blare over the profanity used by Alicia and Cary’s client of the week. The judge keeps asking the warden to close a stuck window. | |
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Surrounded by Idiots | |
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Surrounded by Idiots: Anthony Edward Dudewitz, the creator of the T-Portable in ‘Driven’, seems to hold the intelligence of everyone around him, and of humanity in general, in very low regard. | |
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Tranquil Fury | |
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Tranquil Fury: Will Gardner, briefly, in the beginning of episode 5, season 5 after he finds out Cary and Alicia are leaving the firm and taking clients. He walks in to her office, and they speak, with barely contained rage in Will’s words until he lets it loose and throws everything off her desk, and their exchange gets more heated. Alicia at the end of ‘KSR’, after Eli confesses he deleted Will’s voice message with his Anguished Declaration of Love six years beforehand. | |
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You Are a Credit to Your Race | |
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You Are a Credit to Your Race: In ‘Driven’, Jackie tells Courtney Paige, the CEO of HRT industries and one of the most powerful CEOs in America, and a black woman, that she is ‘an inspiration to all urban children’. Courtney responds with a courteous ‘thank you’ and obviously concealed Tranquil Fury. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Peter, for all his adultery, his sleaziness, and unethical campaigning, whenever needed always does the right thing. Perhaps the best example being in ‘Closing Arguments’ where it’s revealed that he was the anonymous leak of the evidence to Lockhart & Gardner that allowed them to exonerate the accused judge killer. In ‘The Last Call’, he also admonishes Eli, who was attempting to get someone prosecuting Peter to stand down following Will’s death (the prosecutor needed Will to solidify his case). Peter points out the insensitivity of such an immediate action, showing that, for all of his dislike of Will, he still regarded him as a human being. Will often shows traits of this as well. David Lee’s Jerkass facade cracks after Will’s death (he almost breaks down in private). He even supports Diane telling a valuable client, who mishandles the situation, to go to hell. | |
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Cessation of Existence | |
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Alicia herself invokes this when she’s involved with a custody case against a philosophy professor. She uses the fact that he doesn't believe in an afterlife, free will or anything immaterial as evidence that he would be a worse parent to his son than the child’s mother. However, the professor defends himself against her accusations ably (which seem to partly stem from the recent loss of Will—the professor’s opinion that existence ends at death upsets her). | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Episode 7.20, 'Party', two episodes before the series finale, marks the last appearance of several recurring characters, including Jackie, Marissa and Owen. Their goodbyes to Alicia at the end of the titular party take on shades of this trope, essentially being these characters bidding farewell to the viewer. Jackie goes so far as to tell Alicia that she "won't be seeing her again", before clarifying that this is because Alicia is divorcing her son. | |
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Taking the Heat | |
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Taking the Heat: At the end of ‘Taxed’, Alicia’s first client, who was charged with stealing a gift sweater she wanted to return for money, agrees to take a plea to protect her mother, who did steal it. | |
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Dramatic Spine Injury | |
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Dramatic Spine Injury: The inciting incident of the Case of the Week in "Open Source" consists of a man 3D-printing a handgun from schematics on the internet and testing it on the firing range. However, the gun's receiver bursts and the bullet hits a man in the next lane over in the spine, paralyzing him. He then sues the gun's designer. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: In Doubt, the woman on trial takes the plea deal because there's no guarantee she would get a lighter sentence and the jury keeps zigzagging. Despite the fact that she's innocent and Will has chosen not to put the truth across in court because "it doesn't sound true". So she admits to a crime she didn't commit for a lighter sentence - and the Wham Shot at the end reveals that the jury found her innocent. In ‘Taxed’, it turns out the first client, who insisted on pleading not guilty when charged with stealing a sweater she got as a gift from her mother, really was innocent, but her mother did steal it; this destroys any chance of getting a class action against Salvatori, the clothing store, for wrongful accusations of theft against black people, as the client decides to take the plea. Later that season, in ‘Tracks’, Rowby loses the case and Alicia tells Marissa she can’t forgive Eli. The series ends with Alicia admitting she’ll always love Will and losing Jason apparently for good, Peter losing his career, and an apparently irreparable rift between Alicia and Diane after Lucca ruined Kurt’s reputation by accusing him of throwing a case for the sake of the woman he was cheating on Diane with. She seems willing to pick herself up and dust herself off, but at any rate that’s a lot to pick up the pieces from. | |
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Wham Shot | |
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In Doubt, the woman on trial takes the plea deal because there's no guarantee she would get a lighter sentence and the jury keeps zigzagging. Despite the fact that she's innocent and Will has chosen not to put the truth across in court because "it doesn't sound true". So she admits to a crime she didn't commit for a lighter sentence - and the Wham Shot at the end reveals that the jury found her innocent. | |
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Smug Snake | |
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Smug Snake: Glenn Childs. Colin Sweeney (played by Dylan Baker) zigzags between this and Magnificent Bastard, who appears in a couple of episodes. Wendy Scott Carr. And how. | |
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Unresolved Sexual Tension: Alicia and Will. To the point where he says that they have ‘always had bad timing’. Resolved as the closer of season two. And as of mid-Season 3, their breakup returns the underlying tension to their friendly relationship. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: The first and last season each have one word as their title. The second and second-last have two, the third and third-last have three, and the fourth have four. Mirroring the first episode, the series finale has Alicia standing by Peter as he resigns, but this time it’s Diane who slaps Alicia instead. The first judge Alicia goes to court with in the pilot and the last judge she goes up against in the finale is Judge Richard Cuesta. The concept of "pitted" (discarded) evidence also proves central to the solving of the case. | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: Louis Canning is a soft-spoken very likable guy who is played by Michael J. Fox of all people. Yet he’s also an attorney who primarily works in getting favorable deals for shady corporations and often uses quite unethical tactics to do so, along with playing on his disability to gain sympathy with the jury. He then leaves it at the office every night to go home to his loving family. Neil Gross would also qualify, a casual, laid-back hoodie wearing software company executive who would qualify as a Cool Old Guy in most circumstances, but is also someone so concerned with profits he’s willing to assist authoritarian regimes such as China and Syria in arresting protesters and dissidents. Lemond Bishop. He’s a brutal drug lord, but damn he is one well dressed, suave, charming guy, and he does his best to be a good father. | |
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Omnidisciplinary Lawyer | |
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Omnidisciplinary Lawyer: The main cast at Lockhart/Gardner and eventually Florrick/Agos does everything from capital crime defense to immigration law to copyright law. Jeff the NSA guy even describes the firm as "all over the map." Recurring characters tend to be specialists, however: Lockhart/Gardner’s David Lee specializes in family law (e.g. divorces and paternity suits), while recurring antagonist Louis Canning mainly defends corporations from class-actions. | |
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Law Procedural | |
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Law Procedural | |
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Mistaken for Gay | |
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Mistaken for Gay: Frank Prady, Alicia's election opponent is widely rumored to be gay, due in part to not dating or remarrying after the death of his wife. Eventually he confides to Alicia that he never remarried because he's a Jesuit and so that would be against his vows (which include celibacy-it's not said if he's a priest or a brother, though in either case it would forbid remarriage). The new associate at Lockhart & Agos mistakes Cary’s benevolent attitude towards the associates as coming onto him. | |
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Recurring Character | |
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Recurring Character: Chris Noth as Peter Florrick. He isn't in every episode, but his character has a fairly large presence on the show. | |
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Even the Girls Want Her | |
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Even the Girls Want Her: Kalinda, according to Cary. | |
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Enemy Mine | |
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Enemy Mine: In ‘Lies’, Ruth tells Eli that Peter is likely to be the next president, and they need to stop fighting and trust each other. Alicia and Crozier working together. It quickly turns sour. | |
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Friendly Enemy | |
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In Season 7, he tries to capitalize on Alicia’s pariah state by offering her a partnership in his firm. Naturally, she refuses, but he keeps trying to get his foot in the door by sending her cases. Partly he does this to please his wife, who thinks of Alicia as a friend, but he himself sees her as his Friendly Enemy and knows that she would be a good addition to his team. | |
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Knight Templar Parent: Actually subverted with Lemond Bishop, the drug lord. In one episode he has Kalinda chauffeur his son Dylan home from school, but when Kalinda finds out another kid is bullying Dylan she tries to keep it from Bishop, thinking he’ll react like a drug dealer. Once Bishop finds out, he’s clearly angry, but instead of doing something drastic he calls the other kid’s parent like a typical, non-drug dealer father, and very calmly informs him of the bullying and asks him to put a stop to it. He then has a drink with Kalinda and tells her he is determined to be a good father, and that it’s the hardest thing he’s ever done. | |
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Racial Face Blindness | |
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Alicia herself is frustrated during one episode when she tries to cover for a client who keeps making inflamatory statements on TV. In her attempt to smooth things over, she continually mixes up the names of the two black news anchors, which they think is a case of Racial Face Blindness. It turns out that she's filming in front of a green screen without a monitor, so she can't see them at all and is struggling to distinguish between their voices. Her explanation doesn't go over well with the anchors—or, she suspects, with a black member of the jury who gives her a Disapproving Look the next day. | |
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The Smurfette Principle | |
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The Smurfette Principle: According to Diane, before she was hired by Jonas Stern, the firm was mostly an all-boys club. Even Stern admitted to her that the main reason why he hired her was because it would be cool to have a woman on the team. Despite this, she accepted because she knew that, one day, she would be seen as a good lawyer, not just a woman (also he was facing a sexual harassment accusation and needed to add women to the firm for optics' sake). She explains this to Alicia, when the latter thinks she is being rewarded because she is a woman. | |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy | |
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In ‘Foreign Affairs’, Kalinda encourages Will to confess his feelings for Alicia. May overlap with I Want My Beloved to Be Happy given Kalinda’s own feelings for Alicia. | |
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Fictional Counterpart | |
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In ‘Whack-a-Mole’, after a bombing in Milwaukee an Internet witch-hunt starts up on a website that is not Reddit. The witch is an Arab-American anthropology professor who kinda looks like a blurry photograph not-Reddit thinks is the bomber. This was clearly lifted from what happened on the real Reddit after the Boston Marathon bombings, with the following caveats: In the real incident the FBI shut down the witch-hunt by announcing who the actual suspects were, whereas in the show they were using not-Reddit to gather intel. The real Reddit didn't end up getting sued for defamation by the target of the witch-hunt. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–Face Turn: Cary rejoins the firm at the end of Season 3. | |
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Unsurprisingly, a few. Nancy Crozier (the disarmingly ditzy acting yet sharp and savvy blonde who returns in season 2), Stern, Ryan Alprin (from Unorthodox) and Elsbeth Tascioni are probably the best and most literal examples. Andrew Wylie is a bunny-ears investigator; he’s rarely seen without his small children in tow. And bunny-ears judges too. You’d be hard-pressed to find a judge without a quirk or three on this show. Just for starters there was the guest judge from a rural county down south who preferred a more informal atmosphere, and another who was doing day trading in the middle of a meeting with counsel. Another prohibited cell phones, and yet another insisted lawyers put ‘in my opinion’ somewhere in their statements. | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: The e-mail in ‘Loser Edit’ from the report revealing Alicia’s private e-mails. It’s apparently a cross between her e-mail and someone else’s, as it reads ‘From: Alicia Florrick’ and mentions having to put two kids through college, but also says, ‘Alicia is a perfect example of someone sleeping their way to the top!’ It looks like a Blooper, but then whoever wrote the e-mail says (in the first person) that her husband is the SA and will probably be governor and is probably already taking enough bribes to pay for their tuition. Then there’s the final line: | |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones | |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones: ‘Waiting for the Knock’ has one of the firm’s biggest clients, drug kingpin Lemond Bishop, under threat of arrest by the FBI, but he’s more worried about what happens to his son if he goes to prison than prison itself. This continues to be true in other dealings: Bishop genuinely loves his son Dylan and wants to be a good father because his own wasn’t, but he is not a good man, up to and including having his own men gunned down on the mere suspicion of having turned on him (‘The Line’). Attempting to use Dylan against Lemond backfires horribly in ‘The Trial’. | |
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Spit Take | |
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Spit Take: Eli in the last second of "The Decision Tree" after Marilyn off-handedly says she's naming her baby after his father, "Peter". It's a different Peter this time, thankfully. | |
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Favouritism Flip Flop | |
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Favouritism Flip-Flop: In ‘Iowa’, David Lee flagrantly ignores the fact that Cary and Diane are in the middle of a meeting and tries to get them to talk about his emergency. When he learns the person in front of him is Ms. Creech from the Illinois Fair Employment Practices Agency, he greets her with overt politeness, although he still calls her ‘Ms. Screech’. | |
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Justice by Other Legal Means | |
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Justice by Other Legal Means Inverted in the second episode, where a stripper files a civil action against her rapist after the State’s Attorney decides not to prosecute. Alicia loses the case after the DNA evidence is found to be cross-contaminated. However, just as the rapist leaves the court, he’s arrested for her rape, as non-contaminated DNA evidence has been found. In season two, a murderer is found to have been insane while committing the act, and sane now, meaning he’s free to go. However, the trial reveals that he committed another murder, which he’s promptly arrested for. In the season five episode ‘Everything Is Ending’ Alicia and company are trying to stop the execution of a man they believe innocent. While they do show evidence that he might be innocent, the judge orders the execution to continue. The warden of the prison, needing to get the execution done quickly, has the drugs for the lethal injection shipped in by the US mail. Will calls the DEA on this as the drugs were transported over state lines without proper documentation. They show up in time to stop the execution. The state decides not to try to kill him a third time (the first attempt was stopped because it was taking over 2 hours to prepare him because his veins were badly damaged by drug use). In the season six episode ‘Hail Mary’, upon the discovery that the DA had Cary charged with conspiring to import drugs with criminals who were actually planning to export drugs, all of his colleagues search frantically for a Brady violationnote That is, evidence that the DA’s office buried exculpatory evidence to nullify his guilty plea. In her despair, Kalinda forges evidence to ‘prove’ it. By the end of the episode, Kalinda has found the violation they needed, but Diane has already argued successfully using the forged evidence she’d taken from Kalinda’s computer, unaware of the forgery. At the end of ‘KSR’, Judge Don Schakowsky overturns the jury’s guilty verdict against Dr. Portnow and acquits him as he clearly had no intention to go through with the detailed kidnapping, sedating, and raping fantasy he wrote about. | |
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Auto-Incorrect: Played for Drama when Lockhart & Gardner defends a teen accused of starting the Silk Road black market sales site. Their client uses speech-to-text software because of a disability, and Kalinda realizes he's lying about his innocence when she finds a typo in an email from Silk Road's mystery founder that only makes sense coming from a mistake in speech recognition. The firm is forced to drop him as a client because they now know he perjured himself. | |
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Opposites Attract | |
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Opposites Attract: Very liberal lawyer Diane Lockhart dates ultra-conservative weapons expert Kurt McVeigh (no relation). They even end up getting married in season 5. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs | |
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Eli, while reviewing the rules for Alicia’s suspected liaisons with Jason in ‘Discovery’. | |
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You Can't Fight Fate: From ‘Iowa’, when Ruth is talking to Alicia: | |
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Politically Incorrect Villain | |
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Politically Incorrect Villain: Charles Lester. When Kalinda tells him she has incriminating evidence against him she can give the DA: | |
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Grey-and-Gray Morality: Frequently. Alicia generally is depicted most favorably, because she’s the main character, but she’s a classic Anti-Hero, not above lying or being underhanded to get what she wants. A great example is episode five, Season 5 ‘Hitting the Fan’. when Will finds out Alicia and Cary are leaving the firm and taking clients with them. Things get rough, but its hard to say that anyone is clearly in the wrong. | |
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Once More, with Clarity: Will gives a The Reason You Suck speech to Alicia in 'Hitting the Fan'. Will says nobody at the firm wanted to hire Alicia except him. The flashbacks in 'A Few Words' give some context to this. | |
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Token Minority | |
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Token Minority: Kalinda Sharma (her ethnicity is never specified but assumed to be Indian) from season 1-6, later African-American Lucca Quinn became the Token Minority and also a Suspiciously Similar Substitute. | |
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Is This Thing Still On? | |
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Is This Thing Still On?: Alicia has a teleconference with David Lee, and after the meeting, Lee turns off the monitor, but forgets to disconnect from Skype, allowing Alicia and her colleagues to eavesdrop on their entire strategy. | |
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Simple Country Lawyer | |
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Simple Country Lawyer: Recurring antagonist Nancy Crozier, who loved playing up her youth and lack of big-city sophistication ("I'm just a girl from Michigan!") but in actuality was one of the meanest and most ruthless characters on the show. | |
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Straw Feminist | |
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Straw Feminist: Oddly enough, inverted. There are several people on the show who are feminists in all but name, and are generally reasonable people, but are never actually called such, such as Diane Lockhart. Finally used explicitly to refer to Alicia in ‘Party’. It’s not clear whether she actually thinks of herself as one. | |
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Beware the Quiet Ones | |
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Beware the Quiet Ones: Lemond Bishop, middle name ‘Do Not Fuck With’. His status as a Scary Black Man is only amplified by the fact that Mike Colter rarely raises his voice (one of the few times was when Kalinda threatened to have Child Services take away Dylan), and when he’s visibly angry he goes into Tranquil Fury. Bishop’s known for a fact to have had his own people killed on mere suspicion they might be informing on him. | |
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Mistaken for Racist | |
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Mistaken for Racist: One judge sentences Alicia’s black, juvenile client to a stricter sentence than necessary (time in juvie) despite an agreement. The firm figures he’s racist, and reconsiders after Alicia walks into his office and sees photos of him with people like Barack Obama. It turns out he has gambling debts, and his friend runs the detention center and is giving him kickbacks from the state’s stipend. That last part is Very Loosely Based on a True Story. Alicia herself is frustrated during one episode when she tries to cover for a client who keeps making inflamatory statements on TV. In her attempt to smooth things over, she continually mixes up the names of the two black news anchors, which they think is a case of Racial Face Blindness. It turns out that she's filming in front of a green screen without a monitor, so she can't see them at all and is struggling to distinguish between their voices. Her explanation doesn't go over well with the anchors—or, she suspects, with a black member of the jury who gives her a Disapproving Look the next day. | |
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"Rashomon"-Style | |
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"Rashomon"-Style: ‘A Few Words’ shows flashbacks to how Alicia joined the firm before the first episode, from both her perspective and Will’s. The flashbacks also include how Alicia met Cary while they were both waiting to be interviewed. | |
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Villain Decay | |
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Villain Decay: Glenn Childs went from rather cunning and vicious in season one to fairly incompetent in season two. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Will gives Alicia a particularly furious one after he finds out she and Cary are leaving with the other 4th years. | |
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He's Back! | |
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He's Back!: Eli snaps out of it and claws his way back into the campaign to become Alicia’s new chief of staff. | |
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Good Girls Avoid Abortion | |
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Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Discussed and averted. Diane is a supporter of abortion rights, while her client R. D. opposes it, and they have an informal debate about it, but later respectfully agree to disagree. On the other hand Nisa, Zack's girlfriend, is the only character mentioned to have had an abortion. This is treated neutrally, with no comment either way. Alicia is only upset that she didn't know Zack was having sex, and if the reveal could be bad for Peter's political career given the controversial issue. | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: From ‘Iowa’: | |
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Bisexual Love Triangle | |
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Bisexual Love Triangle: Kalinda slips into one of these with FBI agent Lana Delany and Carey Agos. As Kalinda Really Got Around, in a demonstration of All Gays are Promiscuous, the question is more about whether Kalinda can choose between them, or whether she's happy just to use both of them for information. Lana gets derailed at the end of Season 5, as she's seen being accused by her boss of leaking information, and that's the last we see of her. However, Kalinda doesn't end up with Carey either, after this - she has to skip town, so it's an Aborted Arc. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: While many relatively minor characters on the show recur, it is also not uncommon for them to disappear without a trace. The most obvious example is probably Julius Cain, the head of Litigation at Lockheart Gardner. Often taking the role of David Lee’s nemesis, Julius is (with Lee) presented as the most important partner other than Will and Diane for the first three seasons, and is a frequent participant in the many games of office politics. He disappears without a trace towards the end of the third season, comes back for a few episodes at the end of the fifth with a brief mention of having been "in New York" and is not seen or mentioned again for the remaining two seasons of the show. He's back in full force for The Good Fight, though. | |
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Newscaster Cameo | |
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Newscaster Cameo: The show occasionally has clips of fictional NPR News stories, voiced by the actual NPR anchors. | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
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Bait-and-Switch: At the end of "What's In the Box?", Alicia gets a phone call from a man. She tells him to meet her at her apartment. We're led to believe that the man is Will and that they're meeting for sex. But in fact the man is Cary and they're meeting to discuss their new firm. | |
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Parental Favoritism | |
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Parental Favoritism: Sloan’s mother clearly prefers her other daughter to her. | |
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Perspective Flip | |
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Perspective Flip: Done in flashbacks in 'A Few Words' about how Alicia got her job at Will's firm. First we see it from Alicia's perspective, with some Self-Serving Memory, then we see it from Will's perspective. As a bonus, we get a flashback to how Alicia and Cary met while waiting to be interviewed. In the present, Alicia and Cary discuss that first meeting. | |
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Audience Surrogate | |
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Audience Surrogate: Those two NSA guys who treat Alicia's life like their soap opera. | |
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Posthumous Character | |
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Posthumous Character: Matthew Ashbaugh (played by John Noble), who appears in "Death of a Client" and "The Decision Tree". He is murdered shortly before the events of the former and all of his appearances are in flashbacks. | |
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Wham Episode | |
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Wham Episode: Season 5 is full of them. ‘Hitting the Fan’ Cary and Alicia’s plan to poach clients to create their own firm is discovered. Hijinks ensue. Josh Charles’ decision to leave resulted in Will Gardner’s death seemingly at random and out of nowhere. In ‘KSR’, Courtney buys Jason off of Alicia and leaves Eli for California, and Eli confesses to Alicia that he erased Will’s Anguished Declaration of Love from her voicemail box. | |
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You Know Who Said That? | |
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You Know Who Said That?: In ‘Restraint’, Ethan Carver argues with Diane about defending a pro-life case by proxy, by taking up a First Amendment case. | |
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Meaningful Funeral | |
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Meaningful Funeral: Averted with Stern’s. Diane, Will and Alicia just go to try and take his clients. | |
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Self-Serving Memory | |
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Self-Serving Memory: This is invoked in flashbacks in ‘A Few Words’ about how Alicia got her job at Will’s firm, while Alicia is working on a speech about how she returned to practicing law. Alicia is a bit ashamed how her memory is making her look good. | |
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Rule of Symbolism | |
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Rule of Symbolism: Elevators are used as a continual motif for Will and Alicia’s relationship. Their most important conversations and romantic moments tend to take place in elevators, even in flashbacks or Imagine Spots after Will dies. One can easily read an elevator as symbolizing the up-and-down nature of their ongoing relationship. | |
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Pocket Dial | |
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Pocket Dial: Episode "The Missing" revolves around Alicia mistakenly believing her daughter is missing due to a series of ambiguous phone messages, which turn out to have been pocket dials. | |
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Nothing Personal | |
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Nothing Personal: Peter tries to explain to Eli in ‘Bond’ that he’s firing him and hiring Ruth Eastman instead because running for President means he needs someone with a ‘national appeal’. Eli is still displeased. | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Peter fires Eli in ‘Bond’ when Alicia finally lets him run for president, hiring Ruth Eastman to replace him. | |
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You Keep Using That Word | |
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You Keep Using That Word: In ‘Iowa’, Ted Willoughby keeps calling the ‘Full Grassley’ the ‘Full Monty’. Eli ‘corrects’ him, making the mistake common among Americans that it means stripping naked rather than going all the way. | |
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot | |
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot: ‘I’m worried this will keep people from purchasing cheese.’ ‘You think?’ | |
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Deadly Prank | |
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Deadly Prank: Near the end of ‘Driven’, it turns out Tim Brewster’s friends hacked the T-Portable system in his car as a prank, causing him to crash into Wendy Searle’s car. | |
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Eagle-Eye Detection | |
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Eagle-Eye Detection: Kalinda, especially, tends to do this on her cases, but it's also seen in Cary and Alicia. | |
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In Vino Veritas | |
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In Vino Veritas: Implied to be the reason Eli confesses to Alicia that he deleted Will’s Anguished Declaration of Love from her voicemail box six years beforehand. | |
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There Are No Therapists | |
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There Are No Therapists: Robert and Michelle King said in a recent New York Times article that Alicia seeing a therapist wouldn’t be good dramatically. | |
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You Remind Me of X | |
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You Remind Me of X: Eli on Jason in ‘Discovery’. | |
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We Will Not Use Photoshop in the Future | |
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We Will Not Use Photoshop in the Future: Averted. The fact that much of the blackmail material used by Childs against the Florricks is in fact shopped is a minor plot point. The only problem is that not all of it is fake. | |
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"Not So Different" Remark | |
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"Not So Different" Remark: Alicia’s neighbours want to evict her for running a business from her home, in violation of her homeowner’s association agreement. Grace comes to her meeting and points out a few things. | |
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Rule 34 | |
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Rule 34: In ‘Getting Off’, Alicia is informed by a client that there’s porn of her, as well as other Loyal Wives. It’s a trilogy, actually, ‘like Lord of the Rings’. | |
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I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me | |
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I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me: In ‘Restraint’, Eli feels this way about Courtney Paige. Ultimately, she goes back to California and breaks it off. Alicia apparently had this in the past for Will. She describes Will as being above her and cooler than her when they were in college. | |
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Disappointing Promotion | |
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Disappointing Promotion: When Alicia is promoted to partner at Lockhart & Gardner, it comes with a requirement to buy equity in the firm. Diane is unusually insistent on it, which turns out to be because they're going through some financial problems. Diane later explains to Alicia that she herself got promoted to partner at her first firm because the head of the firm at the time had been accused of sexual harassment and needed to get some women up to partner level quickly for optics reasons. | |
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This Is Reality | |
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This Is Reality: From ‘Tracks’: | |
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Attack of the Political Ad | |
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Attack of the Political Ad: Downplayed, and usually their use is either condemned or backfires (as in the SA race between Peter and Glenn Childs—Glenn’s campaign manager resigns after his ad backfires horribly). When Alicia runs for State's Attorney, her Super-PAC (secretly started by Lemond Bishop) runs a robocall in a predominantly conservative Christian area, claiming to be from a gay rights group telling people to vote for her opponent, Frank Prady. Alicia uses a back channel to have it taken down due to her deal with Prady not to get nasty. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Alicia is having a directional crisis. She sits on a bench in a park, and stares blankly at a street performer (Jennifer, played by Anne Marsen) in a shiny gold unitard dancing terribly to terrible music. Alicia knows the dancer, and Jennifer comes over and asks how Alicia’s doing, and talks about about Alicia's issues. Then she asks Alicia if she wants to dance. Here's the dancer's full storyline. | |
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Good Lawyers, Good Clients | |
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Good Lawyers, Good Clients: Subverted and deconstructed to the point of being the series' defining trait. Alicia tries to be idealistic, at least in the beginning, but there are many episodes that demonstrate how hopeless this is. Their villainous clients include ChumHum (a corrupt Internet company), Lemond Bishop (Chicago's biggest drug lord), and Colin Sweeney (a hedonistic rich guy widely believed to have murdered his first wife), but they remain equally good lawyers for their good and moral clients. In fact, they're just as likely to lose their battles for their moral characters. The best demonstration of this in Fleas. Will and Diane take on Lemond Bishop as a client, to much disgust, for a custody battle. It's heavily implied that Bishop has his wife killed to prevent the case from going ahead - but they still argue for him and win. They regularly argue for guilty people and against the innocent, as seen in "Two Courts" and "Battle of the Proxies". | |
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Get Out! | |
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Get Out!: At the end of ‘KSR’, Alicia, after hearing Eli confessing to erasing Will’s voice message with his Anguished Declaration of Love six years beforehand, says this to him in chilling Tranquil Fury. | |
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Artistic License – Religion | |
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Artistic License – Religion: In a rather awkward and contrived manner, with Zack’s (ex-)girlfriend Nisa. Initially it’s only her skin color that’s a topic of debate (because of the possible repercussions for Peter’s campaign), but later she is mentioned to be the daughter of a Hamas-sympathizing Muslim cleric, which rolls three separate unlikely scenarios into one. A Muslim girl not wearing a scarf? Progressively more unlikely the more conservative the family gets. A Muslim girl allowed to have a boyfriend before marriage? Progressively more unlikely the more conservative the family gets. A Muslim girl allowed to have a nonbeliever as a boyfriend? Unlikely even for moderately Muslim families. All of the above at once, with the father in question being the aforementioned Hamas-sympathizing cleric? You must be joking, even if the boyfriend is the son of the Cook County State’s Attorney (and later Illinois Governor), unless the support stems from seeing them as the Lesser of Two Evils in a Black-and-Gray Morality interpretation of the Arab–Israeli Conflict. Later it strains credibility even further when we found out that Zack got Nisa pregnant. | |
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A Fool for a Client | |
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A Fool for a Client: Stern tries to defend himself ‘through Alicia’ from a DUI charge until she decides to take matters into her own hands. | |
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Good Parents | |
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Good Parents: Alicia does a formidable job at being a mother, despite all the challenges she has to face in her marriage and her career. As horrific as Lemond Bishop’s business might be, he does his very best to be a good father to his son, after his own father left him when he was six. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash / Bathos: The show is fond of breaking up serious moments with random things. For example; Alicia and Cary are having a serious discussion, a truck starts backing up nearby, and she has to talk louder. Alicia is having a directional crisis. She sits on a bench in a park, and stares blankly at a street performer (Jennifer, played by Anne Marsen) in a shiny gold unitard dancing terribly to terrible music. Alicia knows the dancer, and Jennifer comes over and asks how Alicia’s doing, and talks about about Alicia's issues. Then she asks Alicia if she wants to dance. Here's the dancer's full storyline. | |
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Celibate Hero | |
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Celibate Hero: Frank Prady is rumored to be gay (and loses flaming homophobe Guy Redmayne’s financial support to Alicia because of it), but he tells Alicia privately that the reason he never remarried after the death of his first wife is because he’s a Jesuit and it would be against his vows. | |
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Contraception Deception | |
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Contraception Deception: Sleazy rich guy Colin Sweeney is sued for child support by an ex-mistress (played by Morena Baccarin) claiming he got her pregnant. He insists to his attorneys at Lockhart and Gardner that he always used condoms with her, but after a paternity test comes back positive, family law specialist David Lee theorizes that she impregnated herself with a used condom. Ultimately, she admits to it, and Sweeney is so impressed with her audacity that he settles the suit on favorable terms and even resumes dating her (for a couple of seasons at least). | |
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As Himself | |
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As Themselves: In ‘Dear God’, Gloria Steinem makes a guest appearance urging Alicia to run for State’s Attorney. Peter Bogdanovich turned up in ‘Goliath and David’ as the Peter who actually fathered Marilyn’s baby. Valerie Jarrett appears in ‘Trust Issues’ for a similar purpose to Steinem’s. Narrowly averted with Fred Thompson, who plays a guy with a similar name and similar legal background and starred on a popular drama in a legal role. Possibly because one of his co-stars on Law & Order is Peter Florrick. Chris Matthews in "The Debate" and again in "Iowa". | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Happens with a couple case of the week antagonists. Joe Kent, a character who’s never seen on screen that the second season episode ‘V.I.P. Treatment’ revolves around. Kent is a well known and lauded philanthropist who has founded multiple charities and raised millions of dollars to advance the cause of women’s rights around the world, but the firm is contacted by a young massage therapist interested in filing a suit against him after reporting that he sexually harassed her in a hotel. The firm is at first reluctant to take the case and believes she may just be gold digging, but after some investigation and evidence of other women who have reported similar instances but never pressed charges or filed lawsuits, they become willing to pursue the case, despite aggressive threats from Kent’s legal team and an impassioned plea from Kent’s own wife stating that even if Kent is guilty, the damage to his reputation would harm his charitable work and do more harm to the cause of women. In the end, the massage therapist opts not to file suit, deciding that she wouldn't be able to emotionally and mentally handle going through the case, and it’s implied Kent successfully buries the allegations completely and gets away with his reputation fully intact. | |
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Imagine Spot | |
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‘Mind’s Eye’ is full of imagine spots from beginning to end. Various people in Alicia’s life talk about various topics. | |
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Obfuscating Stupidity | |
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Obfuscating Stupidity: Nancy Krozier seems like The Ditz, but it’s clearly at least partly an act as she’s quite a ruthless and well-prepared lawyer when she has to be. | |
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Two First Names | |
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Two First Names: Eyal Naftali, the Chief of Staff of Israel’s Communications Minister Marissa mentions in ‘Payback’. | |
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Hanging Judge | |
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Hanging Judge: Generally subverted, where all the judges are nearly always Reasonable Authority Figures but one notable example is in Lifeguard, not for moral reasons but because the judge has been bought off by a juvenile prison. | |
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Love at First Sight | |
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Love at First Sight: Rowby Canton is amazed by Lucca as soon as he sees her. | |
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Odd Friendship | |
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Odd Friendship: Almost all friendships in this series fall in this category. | |
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass | |
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Howard Lyman, the oldest and for most of the series, laziest partner in the firm. He's initially used mostly as a compliant political football in intra-firm power games. However, after Cary Agos attempts to retire him in "Cooked" because the younger associates are complaining about his laziness, he gets serious and begins using his connections to legitimately help out. He starts by bringing in the Food Service Union (worth $33 million annually), via Jackie, a friend of the chairman of the FSU and Howard’s new girlfriend, and later uses his friendship with a judge to get the team some more preparation time after several associates jump ship. | |
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Obfuscating Disability | |
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Obfuscating Disability: Though he is legitimately disabled, Louis Canning (played by Michael J. Fox) habitually plays up his disability to gain sympathy with the judges and juries he faces in court, much to Alicia’s annoyance. It backfires in one case where the judge is a paraplegic: the judge just goes, "Yeah, my legs don't work, so what?" and tells him to present his case. On one occasion, he says he's dying. Diane asks Kalinda to see if he's actually dying, or trying to screw over the firm. Turns out it's both. | |
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Dramatic Irony | |
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Dramatic Irony: Colin Sweeney's fate in spades. He gets away with the murder of his wife, frames her daughter, and in fact earns attention and money from it, but he then goes to prison for a murder he didn't commit, mostly because nobody would believe that someone as loathsome as him was attacked by a violent stalker. In the opening of ‘Hitting the Fan’, a potential new publicist for Lockhart Gardner is talking to Will, selling that she’ll play up the firm’s stability if she’s hired, comparing them favorably to other firms plagued with infighting. Given what happens in the rest of the episode, this ends up being unintentionally funny and wrong. | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance: A love scene between Peter and Alicia, with Peter going down on her to the sound of... NPR’s All Things Considered playing on Alicia’s radio? In Real Life, that weekend’s episode of Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me found this hilarious. | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The first four seasons of the series have titles with as many words as the number of the season (as in, season 1 has one-word titles, season 2 two-word ones, and seasons 3 and 4 three and four-word titles), but season 5, instead of using five words, used three, which many took as a sort of countdown to series' end, since the Kings (the series creators and showrunners) always said that they wanted the show to last seven seasons. As it turned out, it was, since the show will end with the finale of season 7, which will be titled 'End'. | |
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Accident, Not Murder | |
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Accident, Not Murder: "Doubt". A college girl is on trial for murdering her best friend after they had a threesome. Will, Alicia, and Cary run through numerous possibilities: she was trying to steal from the girl, the boyfriend killed her, someone else killed her...only for Kurt to figure out that, actually, she simply happened to pick up the gun and as it was an old, faulty model, she accidentally fired it and died. But they decide that they actually can't use that defence because the jury won't be convinced by it, and she takes a plea to do a long prison sentence. But the jury would have found her innocent anyway. | |
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I Warned You | |
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I Warned You: David Lee plays this up a bit in 'Hitting the Fan' when Cary and Alicia leaving the firm and taking clients is revealed. Lee was certain the fourth years were up to something. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: So very many. Most of the lawyers and a lot of the judges, even the Indian shopkeeper in episode 6 of season 1, although special recognition should go to David Lee. | |
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All for Nothing | |
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In ‘Iowa’, Ruth says the same after they pull off the Full Grassley. At the end of the episode, she makes herself that drink after it turns out Peter lost Iowa. | |
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Informed Flaw | |
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Informed Flaw: In his first appearance, Eli Gold is said to have a preference for Cluster F Bombs. He visibly restrains himself from uttering a Gosh Dang It to Heck! swear, and then this ‘flaw’ is quickly forgotten. He never utters a single swear (even one acceptable for TV), even when one would be appropriate. | |
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Face–Heel Turn | |
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Face–Heel Turn: Cary accepts a job from Glenn Childs. Granted, this is after Lockhart/Gardner has to lay him off. He’s still a stand-up guy. Cary and Alicia do this at the end of Season 4 when they decide to leave Lockhart/Gardner and form a new firm with the other fourth-year lawyers. | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
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Ms. Fanservice: Kalinda, who wears knee-high boots and low-cut tops. | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Eli spends most of the last season working up a Batman Gambit to simultaneously vindicate Alicia of the election-rigging scandal and get back his old gig as Peter's campaign manager (after being set aside in favor of a new character with experience running national campaigns so Peter can run for president). He finally manages to get someone to go on record that the chairman of the Illinois Democratic Party rigged the election without Alicia's knowledge, only for the person to mention to him it was Peter's idea at the last minute. This reduces Eli to a Heroic BSoD. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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Abusive Parents: When Howard tells Jackie he loves her laughter on their date in ‘Cooked’, she shies away, then tells him her mother hated her laughter and would make her eat a clove of garlic whenever she did. She’s almost driven to tears when telling him. | |
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Loophole Abuse | |
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Loophole Abuse: In ‘Cooked’, Alicia and Lucca use a loophole that says that intentionally creating a controlled substance or intentionally creating an analogue thereof are crimes, but unintentionally creating an analogue when trying to create a controlled substance isn’t. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: One episode had a micro-expressions/lie detection expert get everything wrong. There was also the episode with the glee club director tries to help a political campaign only to harm it. In one episode, Zach and Grace have gone off to Peter’s house for the weekend, and Alicia is so bored she ends up watching a show about the ‘true story of Joan of Arc’ which we only hear (thank God for that), and which later has a sex scene between Joan of Arc and some guy (again, only heard), a clear Take That! to Showtime historical dramas such as The Tudors or The Borgias. Towards the end of ‘Live From Damascus’, Will, about to serve a six month suspension from the bar, comments that he might use the time to write a Rock Opera, as ‘There hasn’t been a good one since The Wall’. The Running Gag introduced in Season 5 of ‘Darkness At Noon’, a spoof of dark and brooding cable prestige cop shows such as Low Winter Sun (The title is a clear reference to that, and AMC is even namechecked) or True Detective (with the apparent lead monologuing about morality and the emptiness of life). During one political dinner, Alicia and others are subjected to scenes from a play about a cow forced into war. It could be about Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater, which was name-checked, but nobody there took it as such. | |
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Amoral Attorney | |
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Amoral Attorney: As the trope’s page says, the majority of all lawyers are amoral where their clients’ best interests are concerned. However, several attorneys encountered in the series are also immoral. Alicia is pointedly not amoral, but by her own admission she gets a thrill out of winning cases and will do whatever she can within the law to do so, as is an attorney's ethical duty to their client. The closest people to the definition of the trope would be Glenn Childs and Patti Nyholm. Louis Canning makes his living defending companies from class-action lawsuits. At one point he takes the plaintiff side of such a case, with the notion of reducing the amount the target company has to pay out. There's also a recurring US Attorney who has a habit of brazenly shredding evidence and daring people to prove he did it. Ultimately, Peter Florrick, after it's revealed that he was responsible for the ballot-stuffing scandal that scuttled Alicia's election as State's Attorney. Before this he was just sleazy. | |
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Twofer Token Minority | |
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Twofer Token Minority: Played for Laughs in-universe, when Cary is asked to name the other associates he’s leaving with. He immediately names the associates who fall under as many minority headings as possible, just to make it impossible to fire them. | |
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And Then What? | |
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And Then What?: Invoked by Jason to Peter in ‘Unmanned’. It is probably part of the reason why Peter says he won't fight Alicia on a divorce at the end of the episode. | |
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Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! | |
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Nancy Crozier (the disarmingly ditzy acting yet sharp and savvy blonde who returns in season 2), Stern, Ryan Alprin (from Unorthodox) and Elsbeth Tascioni are probably the best and most literal examples. | |
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Love Triangle | |
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Love Triangle: Peter/Alicia/Will. The Cliffhanger ending of the first season has Alicia deciding between them—Does she join her husband on stage where he’s announcing his attempt to get his elected position back or take a call from Will. And during the second season finale, she and Will have sex in a hotel room. Resolved by Alicia and Cary starting their own firm, stealing some of Lockhart/Gardner clients, making Will mad at her and then sealed by Will’s death. | |
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Found Family via Work | |
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Found Family via Work: Until learning that she cheated with Peter before their friendship, Alicia was very close friends with Kalinda, and Kalinda with Cary (a bond that was never broken), to the point of being willing to put herself on the line when Cary was in prison for smuggling drugs. Will and Diane, who are co-partners in Lockhart Gardner, also refer to themselves as having "the perfect marriage - everything but the sex". | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button Say something to make Alicia know about Kalinda’s and Peter’s affair and Kalinda will go violent. Don’t do anything to hurt Eli’s campaign if you don't want him to spit coffee and throw books or strangle you. David Lee doesn’t love much in this world, but he does love his niece. Do not mess with her. Alicia isn't too fond of situations that put her kids at risk or in the spotlight (something she’s repeatedly made clear to Eli). Although Peter doesn't have the best track record as a faithful husband to Alicia, if someone tries to hurt her, then, as Will put it, ‘he goes tribal’. | |
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Did They or Didn't They? | |
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Did They or Didn't They?: Following a passionate kiss in the last seconds of one Season 6 episode, the following episode is deliberately unclear about whether or not Alicia and John slept together. A potentially leaked email two episodes later reveals they did. | |
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Shoo Out the New Guy | |
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Shoo Out the New Guy: Kalinda’s ex-husband Nick. He returns to... Canada after ordering his attorney to be beaten up and engages in a long series of nonsensical overly dramatic actions to the ire of the viewership. | |
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Anti-Hero | |
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Anti-Hero: Will and Peter and Kalinda. Alicia occasionally strays into this area during darker moments. | |
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Both Sides Have a Point | |
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Both Sides Have a Point: Constantly. In A Precious Commodity, parents want their surrogate to get an abortion because there's a strong chance the baby will be severely disabled. The surrogate refuses to abort the baby because she genuinely believes that the chance is enough to carry him to term. In The Seven Day Rule, Lockhart-Gardner do manipulate the pre-nup negotiations and Neil Gross genuinely loves his fiancee. But he's still trying to hide his assets from her. In Doubt, Cary is right to suggest that if the girl on trial is innocent, she should reject the plea deal - but Alicia and the girl's mother are still right that there's a good chance she could go to prison for a lot longer if the jury finds her guilty. | |
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Show Within a Show | |
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The Show Within a Show Darkness at Noon that Alicia watches has the main protagonist kill a man, followed by him and an elk looking at each other in the final scene of the series. The scene is featured on a talk show, ‘Talking at Noon’ and one of the guests says it symbolizes his soul rising from the dead and reincarnating. This is a shout-out to Hannibal, in which the (Raven)stag symbolizes the connection between Will and Hannibal, and is lying dead on Hannibal’s kitchen floor by the end of the second season. | |
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Fun with Acronyms | |
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Fun with Acronyms: After Stern leaves and Bond joins, the firm Lockhart, Gardner & Bond shortens to LGB. | |
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Hope Spot | |
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Hope Spot: Two in ‘Iowa’: Ruth’s elaboration on her belief that You Can't Fight Fate seems to make Alicia warm up to Eli again, but it ultimately doesn’t. The miraculous turnovers on Peter’s journey through Iowa in ‘Iowa’ mean nothing: he only wins 4 counties in total. Later that season, in ‘Tracks’, Rowby is certain he was going to win, as Judge Page was humming his song on the way to the bench, but she rules against him. | |
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Literally Laughable Question | |
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Literally Laughable Question: One episode has Eli Gold trying to figure out if an intern on Peter Florrick’s gubernatorial campaign slept with him (she claims on TV that he has a birthmark shaped like Brazil on his penis). When he asks Alicia, Peter’s estranged wife, about it, she bursts out laughing at the birthmark part, putting the lie to it. | |
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Viral Marketing | |
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Viral Marketing: An In-Universe example in ‘Red Team, Blue Team’. An energy drink company got sued in the death of a teen, and it turned out she’d started buying the drink to lose weight after finding viral marketing posts on a web forum for anorexics. | |
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Aesop Amnesia | |
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Aesop Amnesia: Zig-Zagged with recurring antagonist Louis Canning, an attorney who specializes in defending corporations from class-action lawsuits. As many note, this is an ironic choice of specialty because he himself developed tardive diskinesianote a proxy for actor Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's disease from a faulty batch of drugs he was prescribed. For his part, he does think corporations should pay a price for harming people, he just thinks the asked price is often higher than it should be. | |
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Break His Heart to Save Him | |
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Break His Heart to Save Him: In ‘Payback’, Marissa asks Alicia to fire Eli as her chief of staff so he could go take a more lucrative job and stop fighting Ruth. Eli sees right through it, finds a way to gravely undermine Ruth, and informs Alicia he’s staying. | |
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Shout-Out: The fourth episode of season four is titled ‘Don’t Haze Me Bro’. In the 18th episode of season two Grace and Zach quote Llamas with Hats while playing air hockey. Alicia complains about them making references she doesn't understand. There’s occasional references to websites like Funny or Die and CollegeHumor when parody videos of candidates are made. At one point, Kalinda discovers that Diane’s home computer and e-mail were used to upload The Vampire Diaries fanfiction. in ‘All Tapped Out’, the NSA guys discuss lyrics from Charlie’s musical, and Jeff wears a It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia T-shirt. The Show Within a Show Darkness at Noon that Alicia watches has the main protagonist kill a man, followed by him and an elk looking at each other in the final scene of the series. The scene is featured on a talk show, ‘Talking at Noon’ and one of the guests says it symbolizes his soul rising from the dead and reincarnating. This is a shout-out to Hannibal, in which the (Raven)stag symbolizes the connection between Will and Hannibal, and is lying dead on Hannibal’s kitchen floor by the end of the second season. At the start of ‘Message Discipline’, Peter mentions Radley Balko’s book Rise of the Warrior Cop. | |
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Unspoken Plan Guarantee: The audience is left in the dark of Julius only pretending to turn on Diane and deliver his vote to Derrick Bond, allowing them to turn the vote around and kick Bond out. | |
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Seamless Spontaneous Lie: When Peter leaves the apartment, triggering the electronic monitoring, the whole family gets their story straight fast. | |
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Freudian Excuse: Jackie reveals in ‘Cooked’ that her mother hated her laughter and made her eat a clove of garlic whenever she laughed. Suddenly, so much of her behaviour makes so much more sense. | |
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Informed Ability | |
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Informed Ability: Eli Gold is supposedly ‘the best’ political manager in the business, but in early season 2 he misses huge problems or plays into a lot of serious screw-ups. | |
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Heteronormative Crusader: Guy Redmayne, the donor both Alicia and Frank try to sway. Aside from being a disgusting sexist, he chooses to support Alicia because he doesn’t like ‘fags’. When he talks to Frank, he talks about Alicia in horribly sexist language to test if he is indeed a ‘fag’. Ironically, despite this being a common assumption, he’s not; he is a Jesuit, which is why he never remarried. | |
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Cloudcuckoolander | |
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Cloudcuckoolander: Many of the quirky recurring characters, but Elsbeth Tascioni stands out. So much so she eventually fails a psych exam, which probably goes against how psychology is structured. | |
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Rule #1 | |
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Rule #1: In ‘Discovery’, Eli relates the rules of conduct for Alicia on her suspected liaisons with Jason. | |
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Hypercompetent Sidekick: Kalinda for the firm in general, and Alicia in particular. She is so competent that the State's Attorney's Office eventually begins an investigation into her methods, believing her extraordinarily high success rate on various cases is too good to be true. She's that good. | |
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Protagonist Title: Alicia is the titular "Good Wife". | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
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Cassandra Truth: In ‘Iowa’, Jackie thinks Howard’s story about the 2.2 million in his name is a symptom of his delusions. She learns the truth by the end of the episode though. | |
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Everybody Did It | |
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Everybody Did It: Mr. BitCoin is actually all three people the firm suspects working in concert. | |
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Historical Relationship Overhaul | |
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Historical Relationship Overhaul: Used In-Universe in "Net Worth", where a social media executive named Patrick Edelstein sues a movie studio for defamation over a biopic about him, in part for inventing a dysfunctional relationship with a nonexistent girlfriend that caused problems between the real Edelstein and his mother, who apparently thought the relationship actually happened. | |
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Littlest Cancer Patient | |
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Littlest Cancer Patient: Exploited by Mike Kresteva, who has a young son with terminal cancer when he runs for district attorney and has him appear in his campaign ads to promote himself. | |
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If It's You, It's Okay | |
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If It's You, It's Okay: Kalinda turns everyone’s head. | |
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LampShades | |
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In season 5 Diane is asked by R.D.’s group to step in against Louis Canning on a wrongful death lawsuit against two doctors who had been involved in a physician-assisted suicide. Diane does so even though she’s actually in favor of the practice, and Canning lampshades the hypocrisy. (Diane made her participation conditional on it being about this case, which had genuine misconduct by the doctors, not every case.) | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: In ‘Undisclosed Recipients’, Eli teaches Alicia to give evasive responses to all the people who try to influence her one way or another (Guy Redmayne wants her to hire his friend, Lemond Bishop wants her to stop the investigation against him...). By the end of the episode, when Eli asks her to appoint someone he wants, she gives him the exact same response. In ‘Bond’, Eli pushing Peter to run for president backfires when Peter fires him and hires Ruth Eastman, who has more of a ‘national appeal’. | |
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Hypocrite | |
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Hypocrite: Diane is an advocate for women. One case involves a politician who is known for helping third-world women, who a masseuse accused of sexually assaulting her when she wouldn’t give him a ‘happy ending’. Diane is skeptical of the masseuse’s accusations, and Will points out she’s using the same criticisms she called out when he used them about a rape victim, because she’s a fan of the accused and his work. Diane then proceeds to struggle with the issue for the rest of the episode. In season 5 Diane is asked by R.D.’s group to step in against Louis Canning on a wrongful death lawsuit against two doctors who had been involved in a physician-assisted suicide. Diane does so even though she’s actually in favor of the practice, and Canning lampshades the hypocrisy. (Diane made her participation conditional on it being about this case, which had genuine misconduct by the doctors, not every case.) In ‘Tracks’, Alicia’s neighbours want to get her evicted for running a business against the homeowner’s association’s regulation. Grace comes to their meeting and points out their own violations. | |
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Friendship Moment | |
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Friendship Moment: Often and between many characters, but specifically Kalinda/Alicia and Diane/Will. Sometimes also Kalinda/Will and more recently Alicia/Cary . ‘Je Ne Sais What?’ was one big friendship moment between Elsbeth and the people of Lockhart/Gardner. | |
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The Singularity | |
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The Singularity: Discussed in ‘Driven’, as the creator of the A.I. questioned in the episode believes it’s likely that artificial intelligence could evolve beyond humanity’s and overtake it, and that his own A.I. might have been able to grow too intelligent to control. | |
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Rock Opera | |
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Towards the end of ‘Live From Damascus’, Will, about to serve a six month suspension from the bar, comments that he might use the time to write a Rock Opera, as ‘There hasn’t been a good one since The Wall’. | |
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Hollywood Atheist | |
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Hollywood Atheist: The show’s got a pretty good track record for averting this and portraying atheists as no more or less sympathetic than theists. Alicia is an open atheist but isn’t shown to be a worse person for it. In fact, although her daughter Grace is a born-again Christian, these different beliefs never affect their relationship. ‘Dear God’ has Alicia needing help dealing with a venue change to a Christian arbitrator rather than civil court, and she goes to Grace for advice on how to use the Bible as a legal document. This was first revealed when Eli planned to use a video of Maddie Hayward refusing to take part in a public prayer against her gubernatorial campaign (she’s one of Peter’s opponents and Eli’s just doing his job as campaign manager), but she short-circuits him by telling a reporter who catches all four of them at a dinner that she felt it would be hypocritical of her to go through the motions as an atheist. Peter tells the reporter he respects that, though he doesn’t agree with her. The reporter then queries Alicia, who states that she’s an atheist as well. Alicia herself invokes this when she’s involved with a custody case against a philosophy professor. She uses the fact that he doesn't believe in an afterlife, free will or anything immaterial as evidence that he would be a worse parent to his son than the child’s mother. However, the professor defends himself against her accusations ably (which seem to partly stem from the recent loss of Will—the professor’s opinion that existence ends at death upsets her). It comes back to bite Alicia when she’s running for State’s Attorney, as many people in the US believe this trope to be true. She’s advised that open atheists are unelectable. Thus, she’s forced to backtrack on her admission of being one into calling herself ‘questioning’ after Will's death and her daughter’s influence. She’s obviously very uncomfortable with this, as is Grace when her prayer group leader gives thanks for her supposedly getting through to Alicia. | |
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Start My Own | |
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Start My Own: In season 4, all the fourth year associates are denied a previously promised partnership. They fake poaching clients for a while, hoping to scare the partners enough to get their promotion, but only manage to get Alicia promoted.Ultimately, Cary, Alicia, and the fourth year associates successfully found Florrick, Agos, and Associates. | |
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Dating What Daddy Hates | |
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Dating What Daddy Hates: Jonas Stern's daughter, Anna, is revealed to be doing this by marrying an Orthodox Jew and converting in 'Unorthodox'. | |
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Family-Friendly "Mature" Content | |
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Family-Friendly "Mature" Content: Played for Laughs. There is a Show Within a Show that parodies True Detective and Low Winter Sun that shows multiple gruesome murders. | |
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Mama Bear | |
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Mama Bear: Messing with Alicia’s children is one guaranteed way to get her after you with the full brunt of her legal skills, as the cop and DA in ‘I Fought the Law’ learned. Also Jackie, who is incredibly protective of Peter. | |
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Pass the Popcorn | |
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Pass the Popcorn: The NSA phone surveillance guys are pretty blatantly just listening in on Alicia’s phone calls for their own entertainment rather than for national security reasons, even hunting for a specious reason to start listening in again after Alicia and Eli initially force them to back off. Louis Canning’s reaction to Alicia and Lucca grilling Charles Ephraham in his deposition in ‘Driven’ is gleeful amusement. | |
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Cruel Mercy | |
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Cruel Mercy: In ‘The Last Call’, Kalinda, after finding out that it was the bullet from Jeffrey’s gun that killed Will, offers the accused the chance to kill himself with his (previously confiscated) belt while in prison. Jeffrey, guilty for his crime, reaches out to take the belt, only for Kalinda to pull it away, condemning him to live with what he did. | |
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Strawman Political: Surprisingly averted: the show does a good job of presenting both left- and right-wingers as people instead of political platforms, and Democrats (who comprise most of the elected officials in Chicago) can be just as corrupt or as honest as Republicans and vice versa. Recurring firearms expert Kurt McVeigh is an unabashed conservative who is an open admirer of the Tea Party and Sarah Palin, something in stark contrast to the rest of the cast, all implied or outright stated to be liberal Democrats. The show keeps sympathy on his side by making him still a rather open-minded guy who can get along with Diane, and very principled to the point where he won’t give testimony in support of a client he believes to be guilty no matter how much he’s paid. Diane and Kurt later develop a romantic relationship featuring what seems to be a private joke where she randomly name-drops Democratic topics like Obamacare just to annoy him. Eventually the two get married, and they're still together in the spinoff. Later the show introduces R.D., a wealthy conservative activist who opposes abortion and same-sex marriage. Diane respects him enough to take R.D. as a client, even though they disagree (although she refuses to launch any anti-abortion lawsuits). In one instance they collaborate on a constitutional case on mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines, and R.D. explicitly states that liberals (Diane) hate them because they’re inhumane and ineffective, while fiscal conservatives (R.D.) hate them because they're wasteful and ineffective. | |
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Has a Type | |
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Has a Type: Recurring character Colin Sweeney seems to prefer attractive, dark-haired, self-possessed women who are interested in unconventional sex/relationships. While most of those apply to Alicia, who he may be interested in, he also likes her as a lawyer and, he says, as a person. She’s also, apparently, the closest thing he has to an actual friend. | |
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The Ditz | |
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The Ditz: Reporter Ted Willoughby. Starting from ‘Loser Edit’, it’s become a Running Gag for Alicia’s PR team to invite him whenever a story has an unflattering angle he’s too stupid to notice, so he would happily accept any version they give him. | |
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No Party Given | |
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No Party Given: Averted, as every major character except David Lee and Kurt McVeigh is stated to be a Democrat and the Democratic National Committee is often shown getting involved. Getting elected in Cook County as anything other than a Democrat is virtually impossible, so it’s justified. | |
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Artistic License – Politics | |
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Artistic License – Politics: In ‘Payback’, Marissa tells Eli that Eyal Naftali, Chief of Staff to Israel’s Communications Minister, wants to run for the Knesset, and later for Prime Minister, and wants him to manage his campaign. Aside from the fact that this position does not existnote The Ministry as a whole has a Director-General, whose name as of the episode’s air date is Shlomo Filber; their role is basically the same as a permanent secretary in Britain, but you don’t run for Knesset—you run for the party leadership in a party that has primary elections, and then the party runs for Knesset. Becoming Prime Minister means your party is big enough and you can manage to form a coalition with enough parties to get the majority of Knesset members on your side (i.e. a Westminster-style parliamentary system, sans ridings); although the Prime Minister was elected directly by the public in the 1990s, this reform was abandoned after only three election cycles due to not actually giving the promised government stability. Also, even more egregiously, she tells him it’s his chance to get rid of Netanyahu (who is all too chummy with the Republicans in Real Life), while a person at this position would almost certainly be in Netanyahu’s coalition, or at least be to a member of Netanyahu’s coalition what Sir Humphrey is to Jim Hacker.note Although in real life, Netanyahu eventually was unseated by a member of his coalition who had turned on him, Naftali Bennett, so perhaps this one was more prescient than it initially looked. And, incidentally, as of the episode’s air date, the Israeli Minister of Communications name is... Benjamin Netanyahu. The episode seems to assume the Prime Minister of Israel is equivalent to US President, with similar elections. Israel does in fact have a President, who is a ceremonial figurehead chosen by the Knesset. | |
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Not Quite Dead | |
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Not Quite Dead: Kozko. | |
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The "Fun" in "Funeral" | |
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The "Fun" in "Funeral": Stern's funeral has its moments like this. | |
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Shame If Something Happened | |
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Shame If Something Happened: Implied by Faux Affably Evil mob lawyer Charles Lester. After he introduces himself, he starts to make smalltalk about your kids. Not his kids—your kids. | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: Given the law setting, frequently invoked. | |
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Crusading Lawyer | |
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Crusading Lawyer: Amoral Attorneys are the norm on this show, even among the protagonists. There are exceptions, though: One episode, "A Defense of Marriage", has a case nearly go constitutional when Alicia's client of the week tries to claim Spousal Privilege on his husband, colliding with the Defense of Marriage Act. This attracts the attention of a noted constitutional law attorney who is on a mission to get DOMA struck down and thinks he could use the Spousal Privilege question as a wedge for an equal protection argument before the Supreme Court (it wouldn't be an issue for a heterosexual marriage). Alicia and the firm disagree with this approach on ethical grounds: they could hope for a conviction to be overturned on appeal, but at present their job is to defend their client as best they can. Ultimately they Take a Third Option and get an acquittal. Alicia manages to significantly irritate a judge while working as a bar attorney by simply acting in accordance with her professional ethics, i.e. trying to provide each of her dozens of petty crime clients individually with the best representation she can, which slows down the court proceedings. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: In ‘The Trial’, Kalinda wants Lemond Bishop to get one of his subordinates, Dante, to appear at a trial. Specifically, Cary’s trial. Kalinda does this by threatening to show photos of known drug dealers at Lemond’s house, which would get child services to take Dylan away. Lemond is furious, but gets Dante to appear at Cary’s trial as requested... who then testifies Cary did tell drug dealers how to avoid arrest as revenge for threatening Lemond's family. In ‘Restraint’, Grace tries to hook clients by overstating by implying the size of her mother’s firm, among other things by saying she’s calling from ‘the Midwest offices’ (i.e. the only office). | |
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Jerkass | |
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David Lee’s Jerkass facade cracks after Will’s death (he almost breaks down in private). He even supports Diane telling a valuable client, who mishandles the situation, to go to hell. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: The series has numerous obnoxious characters, but Anthony Edward Dudewitz, who appears in ‘Driven’, takes the cake. His overall attitude seems to be contempt for everyone else, referring to his programmers as ‘monkeys’ and disdaining human intelligence generally, while hoping to create an AI that will overcome us. | |
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Malicious Misnaming | |
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Malicious Misnaming: In ‘Iowa’, David Lee calls Ms. Creech from the Illinois Fair Employment Practices Agency ‘Ms. Screech’. | |
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Covert Pervert | |
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Covert Pervert: In ‘KSR’, Dr. Portnow, a charming person who performs life-saving operations on babies, harbours horrifying fantasies about kidnapping, sedating, and raping women he’s familiar with. The episode revolves around the issue of whether or not he actually intended to realise them. It’s very heavily indicated that he did not; it was his way of unwinding after he finishes his extremely stressful work. | |
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Southern-Fried Genius | |
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Southern-Fried Genius: Ruth Eastman is a brilliant campaign manager with a noticeable southern accent. | |
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One-Steve Limit | |
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One-Steve Limit: Averted by Cary Agos and ‘The Other Carey’ Zepps. | |
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Distracted by the Sexy | |
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Distracted by the Sexy: In ‘Goliath and David’, Alicia wears a certain dress to court-the dress she (briefly) wore during her first time with Will. This causes Will, her opponent in the case, to have rather intense Flashbacks while a showrunner is talking about the Zeitgeist of art. | |
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Disability Alibi | |
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Disability Alibi: Inverted in "Taking Control". Alicia is appointed as standby counsel to a murder defendant representing himself, and points out a discrepancy in blood evidence: the blood type is different than her client's. Cary (the prosecutor) counters with an expert witness who explains that the defendant has lupus, which can sometimes cause your blood type to change over time. | |
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Platonic Life-Partners | |
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Platonic Life-Partners: Diane and Will are very close, but not romantically together. For reference, the following exchanges during platonic slow dancing. | |
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Running Gag | |
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The Running Gag introduced in Season 5 of ‘Darkness At Noon’, a spoof of dark and brooding cable prestige cop shows such as Low Winter Sun (The title is a clear reference to that, and AMC is even namechecked) or True Detective (with the apparent lead monologuing about morality and the emptiness of life). | |
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Good Adultery, Bad Adultery | |
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Good Adultery, Bad Adultery: Peter cheats on Alicia as one part of the scandal that starts up the series, and then with other women in later years. This is always portrayed as bad, even when their marriage is really just for show. On the other hand, Alicia is involved with multiple other men as well in the course of the series, but is portrayed well because a) Peter did it first and b) she unlike them, is either in love or at close to it. | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
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Beware the Nice Ones: Or nice-acting, anyway. Bishop's "Personal Lawyer", Charles Lester, played by Wallace Shawn, is all smiles and pleasantries most of the time. He's implied to be Bishop's most trusted troubleshooter and hitman. | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: Jerry Breslow. While his intentions (overturning the Defense of Marriage Act) are noble, his methods are anything butdeliberately tanking a case to send an innocent gay man to prison, so he can appeal the case to the US Supreme Court (this was only months before they actually did). Also the immigration agents in ‘Mock’. They have a very just cause in trying to shut down an identity theft ring, but their tactic (arresting an innocent woman who has resided in the US for decades and threatening her with deportation in order to secure the cooperation of her son and daughter) is quite morally dubious. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: Grace negotiating for a commission on getting new clients and settling for 0.5% for each. By the end of the episode, she tells Alicia it totals at $35,800 throughout the year. | |
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Innocently Insensitive | |
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Innocently Insensitive: Jackie’s behaviour around Courtney Paige in ‘Driven’ in a nutshell, from telling her she likes ‘Peter’s African-American friends’ to telling her she’s ‘an inspiration to all urban children’ (Courtney is one of the most powerful CEOs in America). | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: David Lee, who usually plays the part of a slimy Smug Snake (Diane: ‘You hate people!’), gets very pissed when Eli Gold involves Caitlin, his niece, in their rivalry. Something along the lines of ‘She is everything that is bright and good in this world, and you do not get to take that away!’ | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: When members of Anonymous interfere in a case about a rape accusation, they’re actually portrayed fairly accurately, including someone pointing out that it’s not actually a single organization with a definite membership. The only missing element is their signature V for Vendetta Guy Fawkes masks, but that would involve paying copyright fees to Warner Bros. for their use. The show just uses blank white masks with moustaches on the front.note Fellow CBS show like Elementary used ‘Everyone’. | |
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