The Good Wife - Season Seven

[PeterG]

Maybe they thought it would be a fitting end. When you know somebody is not good for you...and you keep them around for seven years! Well, maybe in the end, you get what's coming to you...

 

[Scrufflet]

Alicia in jail? NOOOOOOOO!

 

[Wiery]

I don't think Alicia will end up in jail; I think she and Peter will end up together at the end. I think they have loved each other all these years.

 

[skatesindreams]

Just the ending I don't want:

A woman who has learned how strong and independent she can be, choosing a man not worthy of what she has become!

 

[PeterG]

I don't think Alicia will end up in jail; I think she and Peter will end up together at the end. I think they have loved each other all these years.

Which television program are you referring to? We're talking about The Good Wife.

 

[Cachoo]

So do I. That's exactly what my husband said when we were watching last night. I'm hoping we're wrong though! Would they really end the series like that?

Alicia in jail? I didn't get that at all. But they mentioned that Peter's attorney quit last night so I thought that Alicia might save Peter from returning to prison by acting as his attorney. She "stands by her man" in a totally different way this time. And he is not really "her man" anymore.

 

[Hindernisse]

I don't get where you get this "Alicia will end up in jail" vibe from, guys... If she does not divorce Peter at the end of the series I will be greatly upset.

 

[Hindernisse]

double post

 

[PeterG]

I don't get where you get this "Alicia will end up in jail" vibe from, guys... If she does not divorce Peter at the end of the series I will be greatly upset.

Margo Martindale's character (Ruth Eastman) said something to Alicia about "them" coming after "her". It was said at the end of a conversation where one or both had to be somewhere else, so it was rushed and there wasn't time for them to get into details any further than that. Maybe it was just Ruth telling Alicia that the closer to Peter she remains, the more trouble she can expect to get caught up in. But I've wondered if "they" are possibly wanting Peter's hide and if they can't get that...Alicia's hide will be their consolation prize. I think a lot of people still see Peter and Alicia as a power couple and while there are rumours about them not being a couple, they have remained married all this time. We as the audience know that's not the case, but the public at large very much see them as one unit. All the publicity that have done together, campaigning and spending time in front of the camera together. I think the show's writers/creators Michelle and Robert King might want to go out with a bang and maybe they like the message of how it's no longer always appropriate for a woman to "stand by her man". And if you don't sh** or get off the pot and divorce the bum, bad stuff gonna happen. Like ending up in the slammer!

 

[Cachoo]

Margo Martindale's character (Ruth Eastman) said something to Alicia about "them" coming after "her". It was said at the end of a conversation where one or both had to be somewhere else, so it was rushed and there wasn't time for them to get into details any further than that. Maybe it was just Ruth telling Alicia that the closer to Peter she remains, the more trouble she can expect to get caught up in. But I've wondered if "they" are possibly wanting Peter's hide and if they can't get that...Alicia's hide will be their consolation prize. I think a lot of people still see Peter and Alicia as a power couple and while there are rumours about them not being a couple, they have remained married all this time. We as the audience know that's not the case, but the public at large very much see them as one unit. All the publicity that have done together, campaigning and spending time in front of the camera together. I think the show's writers/creators Michelle and Robert King might want to go out with a bang and maybe they like the message of how it's no longer always appropriate for a woman to "stand by her man". And if you don't sh** or get off the pot and divorce the bum, bad stuff gonna happen. Like ending up in the slammer!

Well that could get us to a last episode with Peter standing with his woman the way Alicia stood by her man at the beginning. I don't know why but somehow I think they end up where they started.

 

[PeterG]

Well that could get us to a last episode with Peter standing with his woman the way Alicia stood by her man at the beginning. I don't know why but somehow I think they end up where they started.

Maybe that's the spinoff that's been mentioned. The Good Husband!!

 

[smurfy]

One episode left. Last night's episode had a few good moments - love Alicia fake crying to Canning.
I was going to stop watching this show, but kept watching when it was announced it was ending.
I just do not like Alicia. I guess I am suppose to root for her and I just do not care.
I want Diane and Cary to have good/happy endings. And Eli should go find Vanessa Williams and his daughter I hope is very successful.
To me it seems like they are not sure - is Peter guilty or being set up - but I do not care.

 

[Sylvia]

‘The Good Wife’ Exit Interview: Creators Robert And Michelle King Say Goodbye (ETA: no spoilers inside): http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...ors-robert-and-michelle-king-say-goodbye.html

 

[skatesindreams]

I'll read the interview after I watch the finale.

 

[Artemis@BC]

^ Ditto for me.

 

[Cachoo]

And curtains. Well what did you think? I'm so glad Josh Charles was in the finale.

 

[Allskate]

That was the series finale? I found it underwhelming.

 

[4rkidz]

Me too rather blah, although did get the parallel in the story back to the first episode..

 

[kosjenka]

what the hell was that???

I.AM.SO.ANGRY!!!!

 

[MarieM]

That was ... not good.

 

[Sarah]

I'm pretty sure Julianna Margulies said you'd either love it or hate it and I think I agree. I'm just torn between hating it and thinking it was somewhat fitting. I did like the parallel to the first episode.

It was nice to have Josh Charles back as well. I wish there was a way to have had more Eli and more Cary in that episode.

 

[skatesindreams]

Too ambiguous an ending for me.

 

[kosjenka]

There is no way anyone can love that.
What Alicia did to Diane and being a coward abour her life in general....

 

[Artemis@BC]

At first I hated it. And swore at the TV. Then I thought about it a bit, understood why they wrote it that way. But I still hated it.

Alicia deserved a better ending than that. And so did we.

The only good thing about it was Josh Charles, even if I kinda assumed he'd be back.

 

[skatesindreams]

Alicia deserved a better ending than that. And so did we.

This!

 

[crzesk8dad]

Maybe this will answer some questions (or maybe create more):

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/05/09/good-wife-finale-postmortem-josh-charles

 

[skatingfan5]

Too ambiguous an ending for me.

I sort of like ambiguity -- allows individual audience members to have their own "ending to the story" -- or rather, "what happens after the last scene."

At first I hated it. And swore at the TV. Then I thought about it a bit, understood why they wrote it that way. But I still hated it.

Alicia deserved a better ending than that. And so did we.

I didn't hate it, but I thought that they crammed an awful lot into the episode. When I saw that it was 45 minutes in, I wondered whether I had missed the fact that the series final episode would be two hours long. Not sure if that would have made some hate it less, but it might have helped the exposition a bit.

 

[skatesindreams]

I always believed that Will Gardiner was the love of Alicia's life.
I was pleased to be right about that, at least.

 

[ks1227]

I actually enjoyed the ending quite a lot. Circling back to the beginning episode, with the press conference and the slap, was brilliant. Except that Alicia is a completely different person now, which I thought was sort of the point. Now her future will look completely different than she must have imagined at the beginning. In any case, I will miss my Sunday night fix a lot!

 

[Cachoo]

I would have liked it more if the last shot we saw was Alicia and Jason literally driving off into the sunset. Her relationship with Diane is wrecked,
she is divorcing Peter, the kids are older now...I was hoping for a nice, long vacation with a lover. No promise of permanence...just some escape for a short time. Oh well.