Yes, Diane and Alicia used each other in various circumstances. But Diane never sought to bring public, professional, and personal humiliation to Alicia to score a point in court. And I don’t think she would.
About our use of term “affair” with Kurt and the former associate/former student (Holly): Are we to understand that he had relations with her after his marriage to Diane, and thus the suggestion of infidelity to Diane? Or are we to understand that at some undetermined time in his past Kurt had ‘relations’ with Holly?
Given Dianne’s reaction, I took it to mean a fullblown affair during their marriage. Don’t forget he also sold her his business - at a low price.
Yes, @rockvillemom, I did give that some consideration, and, thus, factored Diane’s sense of embarrassment in. But, having watched the show (I thought without interruption), I was wondering if it was a possible dual use of the word, one designed to lead the viewer to assume the more unscrupulous definition of affair, where there is also the less seedy use of it which may be applied.
But, okay, given your comment, I’ll go with writers cramming everything in to finish off story lines, and go with unfaithful to Diane. (I had such a different view of him for so long. Sadness.)
Agreed. Kurt seemed to have more integrity than pretty much anyone else in the cast.
I did not get the impression that Kurt had an affair with Holly while married to Diane.
If they weren’t married, it wouldn’t have been an ‘affair’? My only question was whether Diane had known about it. The impression that I had when she stood up and left court is that she hadn’t.
Snowdog, it could have been merely a relationship between adults, also sometimes characterized as an affair. I suppose that simply being in the dark about an intimate relationship between Kurt and Holly, and having it made known to you in open court for the first time would seem a betrayal. Be a betrayal, sure.
Looking back at Kurt’s hasty exit from his business, and the less than prudent financial losses he was willing to incur, coupled with the director’s framing of an earlier scene with Diane as anticipating Kurt wanted to divorce was the unspoken way of telling the viewers something was amiss.
Well.
The 7th season is available now on Amazon Prime, and I’ve bingewatched it. Seeing Will again made me realize, as someone posted above, that when he left the emotional core of the show left as well. Alicia became more and more cynical and drank more and more. Did anyone else notice that in the early episodes of this season, she was drinking hard liquor instead of red wine? Jason helped her cut down, apparently, but at the end she was back to always having a glass of red wine in her hand.
I love Diane, any scene with Christine Baranski in it is wonderful. She really has something special. I hated seeing her devastated at the end, and I’m glad that our last scene of her was not her anguished face, but her regal fury at Alicia and the slap.
And the dropped hand, perfect. The Alicia/Peter relationship has been dead for years. I hate the way she had casual sex with him, and I don’t think her relationship with Jason was anything more than (as someone posted above) FWB.