Tonight's episode of THE GOOD WIFE on CBS. BEST hour of commercial TV this year!

Actually, they are. Got a 30 day free-trial, then when I tried to cancel it they gave me an additional 30 days for free. So, 2 months of the CBS streaming app has allowed me to completely catch up with Elementary and The Good Wife and I can cancel in a couple weeks without spending a dime.



I'm actually glad I went ahead and watched this season of The Good Wife, I've found it more entertaining than last season by a comfortable margin and I've really liked a couple of the new characters. Yes, I still think it's a good idea that they wrap this up, but I don't feel it's limping to the finish, I'm still getting a kick out of it.

 

So the show's over and the best hour of commercial TV has ended. What did y'all think?
I thought this was a rushed finale, like most are, trying to fit too much in. An extra hour would definitely have helped flesh some of these story lines out, and given these characters we've been following for years proper closure, but from online reaction anyway it seems I liked it more than most people . They especially gave Cary short shrift at the end there and I thought he deserved better. Eli, scheming til the end (although his motivation for setting Alicia's future political career was too far-fetched-who would touch Alicia with a ten foot pole?). I like the bookend from the pilot at the end but I think we all could have seen that coming. Even though the show's quality fell off in the last few years it was still very entertaining and I will miss it.

 

I thought it was a fitting ending, like was mentioned about "bookending" the series, the slap in the face and all that. IMO, the show jumped the shark when Will Gardner was killed off and never really recovered. I wonder what will take it's place on the CBS Sunday Night "Graveyard?" I guess we'll find out on May 18th.

 

I liked it also (including the Will Gardner scenes) and agree that it could have benefited with an extended running time. But if you include the previous episode, which was also very good, I feel that the series ended on a high note.

 

I liked it up until the end. The Will Gardner scenes were great.

How did they know who Sutton Foster's character even was no less get her to the court so fast. And she must have been there when the guy murdered his wife since her cellphone ring went off seconds before.

Also did Kurt have an affair with the other ballistics specialist while he was were married to Diane or before? I'm guessing during.

I was hoping the end would be Alicia meeting Jason and him asking where she wanted to go. And she responses something like anywhere but here. Implying the two of them would be off on a new journey together. Either that or Kalinda with two glasses of wine. Instead we got no closure.

 

Not resolving the Jason thing was a cop out and ultimately unsatisfying - we've had too many series' finales leave everything unresolved and up in the air, give us a real ending for a change.

 

I guess they thought so little of us they didn't care.

 

It was okay. I'm glad they left some things unresolved. What bugged me most, like modresolve, was the quick finding of the witness and how little was made of that.

I'll miss the show. Last year with all the political subplots bored me, this year was better, so it ended on a higher note. I became tired of Alicia and Peter by the end without Kalinda along as a draw, too bad Archie Panjabi wasn't in til the end.

 

I was happy that the Jason thing went unresolved, because frankly, I hated that character. From the moment he first appeared and all through the last season, his character was about as exciting to me as dead fish. The character was a poor and smarmy substitute for Will Gardner or even Finn Polmar.

 

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I think Alicia is in a self imposed purgatory, standing next to her husband again seemed a bit too 'good'. A sad ending but at least she admitted the truth to herself (that Will was her true love)...

 

fwiw: Josh quit the show so they had to end his character somehow which makes it less a jump the shark thing to me...

 

I'm of the camp that this show was still pretty great even at it's worst, so I enjoyed the finale and by extension the last season. However, unlike some other shows of this caliber I can't help but feel that it lost a little too much ground with the passing of Will Gardner and therefore did kind of fizzle out. I feel like the season could have concluded with a much stronger run of episodes but it almost seems like everyone behind the scenes was too exhausted to make it happen.

 

I tend to like endings that END. I'm not a fan of the recent trend of leaving things loose and unresolved. But I guess this one wasn't bad. The way they worked Will back in could've been ridiculous, but I think it worked well and served to finally wrap a bow around that relationship.

 

They had plenty of time to tie up all loose ends and failed but I agree with bopdd, at it's worst it was still good for me and way better then other shows at their best.

 

Would "Person of Interest" be a candidate for Sunday Night after MP? I like POI a lot.

 

I only half watch the show while my partner has it on but it looked to me like that was one of the more disappointing series finales of recent years.

 

I was disappointed that it wasn't a two hour episode....and i was certain somehow Kalinda would make an appearance...but didn't.
All in all I enjoyed the series...but like a meal...not all episodes were great.

 

Probably not. This is a short final season of Person of Interest, and they are "burning up episodes" (second one last night, third one tonight). . . .

 

Kind of a weird ending, Malware is repairing the machine.?
I think they just gave up on this show for some reason, too bad, really.

 

Too expensive for the amount of viewers they brought in each week. They threw the audience a bone by giving them a shortened final season to allow a conclusion (ala Fringe).

As far as the Good Wife finale I thought it was fine and completely in line with the rest of the series. If Alicia really wanted Jason then she shouldn't have kept dragging it out...and out...and out...as soon as she whispered "wait for me" I knew he was gone. Alicia has faced every other personal horror during the run of the series the same way, she brushes herself off, puts on a brave face and continues onward. Just as she did here. But it seems the modern TV audience doesn't have the imagination to fill in the blanks for what could lie ahead. A pity.

 

I agree. They did what was a "writerly" sort of thing--beginning as it ended rather than giving the audience the closure they deserved.

 

Turns out there's going to be a spin-off about Diane next year -- but only on CBS All Access:

‘The Good Wife’ Spinoff to Star Christine Baranski, Cush Jumbo in Negotiations at CBS All Access »

 

Well, if that happens, then "the slap" does in fact signify the end of Alicia's reign at the firm.

 

IIRC It was Cush Jumbo's character that brought up the affair between Diane's husband and the blonde gun expert. Shouldn't Diane be equally/more devastated by her actions?

I know ratings were never stellar, but am I the only one suspecting some behind-the-scenes tensions between key players may have led to this show's demise? The writers leave for another project, but then announce their participation in a new project with some but not all of the old characters.