'The Good Wife,' TV review
Just because most people thought 'The Good Wife' had a winning season last year doesn't mean it should do any old thing it wants to do this year.
The sixth season opener of 'The Good Wife' Sunday still has most of the elements that have kept its following loyal for the first five years. That list starts with Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick, the flawed but sympathetic and intriguing character at the heart of it.
But the episode does a couple of things that feel more like 'Scandal,' a proudly over-the-top soap that revels in always topping itself.
'The Good Wife' has always known how to have fun. But at least two moments Sunday border on sitcom.
The first involves an intern in the office of lady-loving Gov. Peter Florrick (Chris Noth). She answers a wardrobe question in a way that 1) wouldn't happen, and 2) would get her fired if it did.
Here, Peter's chief of staff, Eli Gold (Alan Cumming), just shakes his head. While Eli has always been a point of humor, he also should keep ties to the way the world really works.
Another scene has attorneys Louis Canning (Michael J. Fox) and David Lee (Zach Grenier) hatching a plot and mugging like characters in 'The Simpsons.'
Meanwhile, the show takes its big swing with Cary (Matt Czuchry), gambling that a turn in his life will kick-start the new season.
The tension continues between the old and the upstart law firms, while the closest thing to a replacement for the late Will Gardner, Finn Polmar (Matthew Goode), quickly establishes a different kind of relationship with Alicia.
'The Good Wife' has endured, despite borderline ratings, because it handles the fundamentals so well. It needs to keep doing that.
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