The problem is, “The Good Wife” didn’t earn its dark ending. Sometimes she made bad or selfish decisions, but more often made creative, smart and challenging ones. I think movies in trying to be more of a spectacle have lost their cinematic bones and they haven’t really stretched themselves cinematically. If only he’d seemed worth it, but he’d mostly been a drag on the show since the middle of its run. If nothing else, I don’t feel my patience with the show’s last couple of seasons was rewarded by that ending. Your review of this book reminded me of the ‘Big Eyes’ movie too. I just love our show when it goes silent. Thanks for responding Emily. I think you are right about it being somewhat pervasive in literature. Why was this entire closing arc not primarily about a woman named Alicia Florrick? We thought there would be moves we would have made if we had the actors available to us. You’re the lawyer. In season seven, I sat through almost no Louis Canning and had to endure Howard Lyman’s dating life for that? Joan allows herself to once again be subsumed in her husband’s larger personality. We knew fans, a lot of fans, would be upset. We don’t know until we get there…IMHO! ( Log Out /  (For our LW group, I do often include spoilers, but I’m more in the habit of trying not to, which is the way I went this time. Michelle King: Not only that, but the acting there at the end with Julianna and Christine was so stellar, it’s hard to reject anything that brings that about. No, I agree. ( Log Out /  Michelle: Yes if the actors are willing to do it. It was, in the end, a fairly conventional show. The good news is that there are so many great smaller shows these days filling the gap. The character is not served well if she’s given a happier ending that doesn’t allow for who she is. And maybe she realizes that she still has time to write her own stuff now that her husband is gone, and now that women writers are more accepted. It was very one-sided, from the wife’s perspective, and her husband seemed to have it all. He was about weightlessness, he was free-floating. Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King intended to tack an extra scene onto last spring's polarizing series finale. Those felt like the three poles in her life of men. Build an operation from the ground up. Twenty-two allows more freedom to do that. The final weeks and/or season could have shown Alicia and Lucca expanding their own firm, partnering with Canning, establishing a new, all-female firm with Diane, taming unicorns or riding a rocketship into space. I wanted her to break free and speak out. It doesn’t matter. So I used my brain after all. He fell right into it. However, her decision to keep the secret is a little surprising. Your group should consider it. Your honor, the show asserted facts not in evidence. She was going to tell him just before her husband has a heart attack. I hear “Darkness at Noon” got really good this season. She finds it humiliating. Not at all. It didn’t really matter which show “The Good Wife” was dragging, because most of us got — and enjoyed — the joke. I agree that there are unhappy husbands, but they were not portrayed in this novel. We don’t live our lives in a vacuum, so we must take into account what make be lurking in the background of not only spoken, but also unspoken conditioning. Here are just a few of the objections I have, your honor: Of course, callbacks to a show’s first episode in a finale can be a lot of fun. The Diane I know wouldn’t care much about that. She’s as human as any character we’ve created. Am going to get the book. I don’t think she loves politics. She remains second fiddle. While I stipulate that I did love the best parts of the show’s run, the ending was so hasty, sloppy and poorly conceived that, yes, it does affect how I view the rest of the final season, and even certain aspects of the show in general.