Is “The Good Wife” not good enough to survive another season?
An online TV site recently predicted that the show has only an even-money shot of being renewed for a third season. I say they are probably 50 percent incorrect. So don’t panic, fans.
Hey, if an ex-felon like Peter Florrick can get out of the can and run for State’s Attorney in Illinois, well, hell, a show with nearly 13 million viewers can survive.
But, because of the recent panic attack, I thought it was time to take another look at “TGW” to see if it had substantially changed.
Verdict: guilty — of being a guilty pleasure.
I mean, nobody watches lawyer shows to learn about the law — you could kill yourself in real life listening to lawyers gab. We watch these shows for the soap appeal.
Take tonight’s episode, called “VIP Treatment.” It’s about a massage therapist who shows up at the office while all the lawyers at the firm are at some black-tie dinner apparently right across the street.
The therapist is accusing a Nobel Peace Prize winner — honored for his work with women in Africa — of attacking her in a hotel room. And she wants Alicia, wife of the hooker-happy hubby who is now running for office, to take her case.
At 9 at night. And it’s a civil suit — not even a criminal case.
Not only does a staffer from the firm run over and find Alicia, dazzling in a ball gown at the dinner, but — in the course of a couple of hours, between, say, 9 and 11 p.m.:
* Diane (Christine Baranski) manages to get the therapist’s apartment broken into (for evidence that she’s telling the truth);
* then she has the garbage stolen from the hotel room of the Nobel laureate (for evidence that she’s lying);
* Josh has a fistfight with Nobel guy’s attorney;
* and Peter discovers that he has competition in the race and gets to listen to Alicia’s phone messages, looking for signs she’s cheating on him (ha!).
For the record, I can buy everything — including an ex-con running for the biggest legal job in the state, no problem.
But when Peter phones Alicia at the office to say, “I found your phone in your purse,” which she’d left behind at the black-tie party, they lost me. She panicked when she lost her phone but not her purse? Was this written by a man?
Oh, one more unbelievable thing: Vernon Jordan playing himself.
He’s so bad that, for the first time, I am convinced that he wasn’t lying in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. He’d never have gotten through the dialogue.