I just watched it last night and I’ve been thinking about it. I like how unsettled it left me. I always appreciated how I didn’t always like Alicia’s behavior but yet I could understand her motives. Seeing her and Will together made me very sad. I loved him too! She had a lot of regrets.
I watched it last night, too. I liked it. I had gotten a little less invested in it over the last couple of years so I wasn’t hysterical about it ending. I feel satisfied with the ending.
Our son called in the middle of the episode. He had been planning to propose to his girlfriend this weekend. My wife was really annoyed! As soon as she heard that he hadn’t proposed yet, she gave me the phone. (I stopped caring about The Good Wife in the middle of last season – too much Louis Canning, too much stunt casting, too many law-firm switches, not enough Archie Panjabi – although I was watching this episode.)
People who want to talk to my wife on Sunday evenings will still have to contend with Madame Secretary, however.
“My wife was really annoyed! As soon as she heard that he hadn’t proposed yet, she gave me the phone.”
LOL, JHS… she IS a fan!
I was very dissatisfied with the finale on Sunday night, but, as I have processed it, I’m not quite as turned off. The very best thing was Will’s reappearance and Alicia’s acknowledging him as her soulmate. I didn’t want Alicia with Peter or Jason, but I did want her to end as a better person than she has been this season.
People still watch shows when broadcast? No DVR? Besides sports, I haven’t watched anything live in years.
^Same here. I got spoiled because I binge watched the earlier seasons of TGW. Just had to be careful recording it this year, since it often started late due to football and golf.
I am really going to miss this show. I was nowhere near done with it.
I get so annoyed with CBS over their Sunday night programming. It never starts on time and I know they do it on purpose. They know their football games are going over and still start 60 minutes at 7 pm.
I have on demand on my tv and will watch The Good Wife that way, I rarely watch anything live except sporting events or the news in the morning, when it’s just background noise.
Except in the mountain time zone or pacific time zone! If they delay everything for an hour, then they really have nothing on at the 6/7 pm slots.
For many years, I didn’t even know there was a show ON be for Monday night football. It started at 7 mountain time, end at about 10 with the news. It never occurred to me that others got a whole show in the 8 pm Eastern/7 entrap zone, andD those on the west coast saw it after the football game.
I finally watched last night. My takeaway is she was left alone. She resolved the Peter issue, but her true love was Will and Jason was gone.
She’ll always have Eli!
@eyemamom I interpreted the end differently. She wants Jason, and will go after him. (Whether he’ll want her is another story.) I also think the slap from Diane jolted her into reality - she will go forward in her career - chastened but forward.
“I thought it was a satisfying ending…Alicia did whatever she had to do and rode over anyone in her way to get what she wants. In saving Peter she became just like him. The slap to echo episode 1 was well placed therefore. Perhaps Alicia’s shock that Diane would take total betrayal personally - she seemed ready to greet Diane as if nothing had happened - will be (we’ll never know) a wakeup call.”
OMG. You nailed this.
But if he had not been Diane’s husband testifying - if, like Alicia, it had been Diane’s husband on trial - Diane would have done exactly what Alicia did. So no, I have no sympathy for Diane.
I would have been more satisfied with the ending if Alicia had affirmatively decided to be alone. Since the time she had kids, she was always responsible for someone. It would have been appropriate if, after Grace is gone to college, that she became responsible for only herself.
Responsible ‘to,’ and responsible ‘for,’ are different, though.
I thought that slap from Diane was ironic because Diane had thrown Alicia under the bus on more than one occasion and used Alicia for her own purposes on numerous occasions. In a way, Alicia has chased ghosts as long as we’ve known her. Her former life. Her marriage. Her old relationship with Will and current one (quite literally a ghost). Seeing Jason’s shadow and going after him.
One of the least Alicia-like relationships she has is with Zack. Their estrangement seemed too abrupt and unexplained. And I wish we had had more time with Lucca. I didn’t like how she was mired down and became an afterthought. And Marissa. Wanted to find out more about Marissa but she seemed to go away abruptly too.
Nice analysis, @m0minmd.
The biggest problem with the return of Will in the last episode was the way the director allowed him corporeal form, as evidenced in the hug. I have no problem of him sitting in the chair, or even his talking to Alicia, but once she could summon up her most intense longing for his company and have that longing walk him from the other side into her arms, well… That lost some credibility for me.
I agree that the Zack relationship didn’t ring true at any level.
Though I really can’t remember Diane publicly humiliating Alicia the way Alicia humiliated Diane – in court of all places. That slap did ring true to me!
Read a spin-off might be in the works - with Diane and some of the other attorney characters.