text:
- World
- Students' Column
- War and Military
- Opinion
- Politics
- Economy
- Travel
- Русский
- …
Experiential Marketing in recent years is catching the momentum and more companies are gearing up to start such campaigns to attract consumer's attention emotionally, practically and rationally. Its aim is to create some kind of connection between a product and consumers. It allows consumers to respond to a product emotionally and/or practically. Experiential marketing campaigns need to be creative and ad campaigners must be aware of their target audience and site locations.
|Coke Hug Machine in National University of Singapore, Source unknown
World renowned automaker Volkswagen surprised newsreaders in India on 21st September, 2010 by giving them the first of its kind experience of a talking newspaper. As soon as readers opened the Times of India or The Hindu newspaper; a light sensor would activate a recorded advertisement announcing the arrival of "a perfectly engineered car" – the Vento. It not only did help Volkswagen, but also the newspaper companies which received appreciations by the readers. This creative idea was implemented by DDB India. Speaking on this, Lutz Kothe, head of marketing & PR, Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Volkswagen Group Sales India, said "At Volkswagen, innovation is a way of life, it extends beyond our cars to even the way we communicate which reflects in this initiative."
|BBC World 'See both sides of the story' ad
|Folgers Coffee Street Ad
|Duracell Escalator ad
While all over the world innovative ideas have been coming up to create a difference on how consumers behave towards their product, Television ads have reached a new high in attracting consumers with their all emotions involved as people cannot interact as much physically as in real life, the only scope for the advertisers is to directly strike consumer's passion and emotions.
Taking example of the auto industry, three out of top four auto companies in India are Indians by their market share. Leaving behind other companies who have a great foothold all over the world.
Source: rediff.com
Recently India observed telecom revolution, which has penetrated even the remotest parts of India, this was due to the result of aggressive competition between government-private and private-private companies. Today almost all the big names in India like Tata, Aditya Birla Group, Videocon, Reliance, Bharti are in telecom business. Again among the top four mobile carrier services in India, three are Indians.
|Source: Business Today


text:
Explore by subject
Legal Rights & Government
The Family
Men, Women, & Gender
Living Conditions
Education, Arts, & Culture
Responses to Enslavement
Freedom & Emancipation
Robert and Hannah Smalls Discuss Escaping to Freedom
At the height of the Civil War, in the early morning hours of May 13th, 1862, a slave named Robert Smalls led his wife Hannah, their young children, and some fellow slaves on a daring escape from Charleston, South Carolina. Robert Smalls used the skills he learned as a crew member on the Confederate Army ship The Planter to steal the vessel and deliver it to the Union Army at Fort Sumter, thereby gaining their freedom.
Escaping was a bold move, considering the unique way that Robert and Hannah Smalls lived. Unlike many other slaves, they were permitted to live on their own and Robert was given permission to make money by hiring himself out for various jobs throughout Charleston. His owner also agreed that Robert could use some of the money he earned to purchase his family's freedom. The following fictional scene attempts to convey the conflicting feelings Robert and Hannah Smalls might have experienced when making their decision to attempt this risky escape.
The Scene:
In Smalls' kitchen after his fellow escapees have left for the night. He and Hannah sit at their table. She rises holding a few dishes to wash. Turning away from the table, she takes a few steps and drops one of the dishes, which crashes loudly to the floor.
Hannah hush! Do you want to let the entire neighborhood know that we are up at this hour?
You know the answer as well as I do. The bowl just slipped ... My nerves I guess.
Well tell your nerves to calm down. Being nervous is not going to help us be free. This plan is a solid one.
I guess my nerves just are not convinced of that just yet.
Look Hannah, I love you too much to endanger you needlessly. What are you so worried about?
I am worried because what we are doing is more than dangerous, it's unheard of. So many things could go wrong. I worry about getting caught, about making it past the forts. I worry about what will happen to our children if we do get caught.
I worry about those things too. How could I not? But this will work. We have so much on our side. I know the signals for the forts. I know the tides. I know where the Union ships are. Plus, we have surprise on our side. Who would expect a group of slaves to dream such a daring escape?
Of course, these things all are comforting. I know you know the signals. I have faith in your skill as a sailor, yet I can't help thinking about what we are giving up.
What we are giving up?!? We are giving up a life that is never fully ours. A life that always rests on the goodwill of McKee and his creditors.
You know that's not what I mean.
I know what we are giving up if we don't go through with this: we are giving up the chance for our children to be free, the chance see our parents, the chance to go where ever we want whenever we want, the chance to strike against the State that has held us against our will every day of our lives.
Do you care so little for what we already possess? Do we not live on our own, apart from any master? Do we not earn more in a month than most slaves will in a year or even a lifetime? We must balance all that against our certain death if even one part of the plan fails.
Hannah, you and the Lord both know that I have never once taken what I have for granted. I know that simply being brought to Charleston was the chance of a lifetime. I know that our situation is very unique, freer than most. I know that every dollar I earn each month, after I give McKee his 15, is mine to keep. But why do you think we have this life? We have it because we scrape and push and save for every penny. We have it because we take every chance to better ourselves. We have it because we will not settle for less. Is not living as a slave settling for less? ... We have been given a lot and to those who are given much, much is expected. After all we are not just doing this for ourselves. Others are escaping with us. Should we just tell them that we have changed our minds, that freedom will have to wait?
Robert, you know I want more than anything to start a new life. You know I want real freedom as much as you do. But we both know that if something goes wrong we will surely burn or be filled with bullets. What good will we do our children or the cause of freedom hanging from the gallows?
None I suppose.
It is not too late to reconsider. The others will find a way out Robert. We will just tell them that the tides are against us ... We are so close to buying our freedom. Just think, if we wait another few months we will have won our freedom anyhow. If we run we'll never know freedom in our own homeland.
There will never be real freedom in our homeland unless each person fights for it. Hannah, I hatched this plan for us, but it is not for us alone. Think of how much freer we will breathe knowing our children will never be sold from under us. We still have many months before we can buy our freedom Hannah. And each day of month we know our children are vulnerable to the master's rising or falling fortunes. If new taxes are raised, we must consider that our master will use our children to pay his due. We have a great opportunity, one of many chances that I have always been better off for taking.
Success has never been a stranger to you, that's for sure.
But I am starting to see success in a new way. It is not to be found in the end result-reaching Union ships. Of course that will one part if it, but there is a more basic part. We will have success the minute we put this plan into action. Simply leaving the house with freedom in our hearts will be success.
Robert, I think the night air is making your foolish. If that were true then why is slavery not ended all ready? Does not every slave wage some small battle everyday to end their bondage? Success must be measured by achievement, not spirit.
Perhaps. But without spirit, who can glimpse success?
Do not let my words discourage you Robert. I question you only because if I did not voice my doubts, they would continue to grow. I know that you are right, we must do this. The time is right. We must do this to show all Americans the power of genius and the ingenuity and determination of Negroes. We must take freedom into our own hands. For if we do not, slaveholders will have no one to disprove their false claim that we are happier under the wing of our masters.
Yes! We will show what true courage is. We will trust in our cunning. And I will put my life in God's hands. He knows our cause is just. He will see us through, just as he has for the righteous throughout time.
Additional Resource:
Character Spotlight of Robert Smalls
Historical Overview of Freedom and Emancipation
"Election Methods in the South"
in THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW written by, now U.S. congressman, Robert Smalls in 1890 condemning the corruption of the election process in South Carolina.
All readings created in the Historical Fiction section were reviewed and approved by the educational advisor, Thomas Thurston, Director of Education at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale Center for International and Area Studies.
SLAVERY AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA is a production of Thirteen/WNET New York.
© 2004 Educational Broadcasting Corporation. All rights reserved.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
PG&E Fined $1.4 Billion For 2010 Pipeline Explosion
PG&E will have to pay nearly one and a half billion dollars for the deadly gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno. California regulators slapped PG&E with the fine after the fiery disaster left eight people dead back in 2010.
The explosion and fire also destroyed 38 homes.
Investigators say PG&E was deficient in the managing its pipelines.
PG&E reps called the penalty "appropriate."
But the company could still face even more penalties if convicted of pending federal charges.


text:
NEW YORK (Mar. 31)
A special Passover gift of $75,000 for the redemption of land in Palestine was cabled to the Head Office of the Jewish National Fund in Jerusalem, according to an announcement made by Dr Israel Goldstein, President of the American branch of the Fund. This amount will be applied for the acquisition of new land in connection with the wartime program. $780,000 has been cabled to Palestine by the Jewish National Fund of America during the past six months, which includes the present remittance of $75,000, Dr. Goldstein said.


text:
Homemaking maven Martha Stewart is admitting to painting the bottomof her Christian Louboutin shoes black.
Yes, while many women would pay big bucks to sport the red bottoms on their shoes, Stewart is not a fan of the flashy color.
Don't worry, before Stewart committed what many are considering to be a fashion tragedy, she asked for permission from Mr. Louboutin himself.
Stewart tells In Style, "Even though they're his trademark ... he doesn't mind. He said it's okay if I do that -- I asked him!"
Do you think we should call in the fashion police and give Stewart a fashion citation for her shoe sin?


text:
The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority has become aware of entities with websites that have given their contact addresses as being in the Cayman Islands. The entities listed in the document below are not licensed or registered to carry on activities regulated by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority. Our inquiries also reveal that they are also not registered with the Cayman Islands Companies Registry.
The Authority would encourage people receiving any form of approach from these purported entities not to respond to them in any way.
Websites with Cayman Addresses Not Registered or Licensed by CIMA
Active CIMA websites
Security threats advisories
Complaints Procedure
Print This Article
E-mail This Page
Click here to Email the Compliance Division
Phone: 345-244-1639; 345-949-7089Fax: 345-946-4651
Address:Cayman Islands Monetary AuthorityPO Box 1005280 Shedden RoadElizabethan SquareGrand Cayman KY1-1001CAYMAN ISLANDS
Copyright 2017 Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, All rights reserved.


text:
Free Publishing Resources
Member Spotlight
My Account
Log In
Sign Up
List Price: $14.95
Add to Cart
About the author:
After earning her M.A. in Counseling through Dallas Baptist University in 2009, Stephanie interned under Dr. Carol Doss at the Family Counseling Center in Fort Worth. She counts among her greatest professional achievements the opportunity to blog for the American Counseling Association, being named on the 2011 "Not Most People" list by author David P. Diana and having the privilege of running the Beginning Counselor social networking website. (www.beginningcounselor.webs.com)
In 2011 she relocated to College Station, TX, and started her own e-therapy business, Beginnings Counseling & Consulting, at www.stephanieadamslpc.com. In addition to her online counseling and beginning counselor coaching, Stephanie develops continuing education courses for allceus.com and provides online therapy on a contract basis for other e-counseling sites. This is her first book.
Having earned a Ph.D. in counseling, Carol works at a community agency as the Clinical Director and carries a caseload of her own clients. She is currently supervising several counselors working toward achieving licensure as Professional Counselors. She also writes a weekly advice column for the counseling center's website, www.family-counseling.org, addressing a wide variety of topics relating to human relationships.
Married since 1978 to another therapist, Carol has two adult daughters. In 2010, her book, Should I Leave Him? was published by Adams Media, ISBN 978-1598699692.
Carol shares this about her life: "All my significant personal endeavors-grad school, marriage, parenting and writing-have taught me that perseverance and hard work add up to success."
The Beginning Counselor's Survival Guide
The New Counselor's Plan for Success from Practicum to Licensure
Authored by Stephanie Ann Adams LPC
Authored with Dr. Carol R Doss LPC
Have you ever wondered how you can have a graduate degree in counseling and still feel so lost? Do you feel discouraged sometimes about your ability to succeed as a counselor? Then The Beginning Counselor's Survival Guide is the book for you!
In this book, you will learn how to:
Interview a potential counseling site as they are interviewing you.
Develop, step-by-step, your new counselor marketing strategy.
Apply for temporary licensure.
Practice self-care so you can avoid career-ending burnout.
Work with the special needs of particular client groups.
Study for both the NCE and NCMHCE, as well as other tests you might be required to take.
Work productively with a counselor supervisor.
Identify your own unique counseling style.
Plan for the career you want to have after your internship.
And SO MUCH MORE...
"This is truly a ground breaking work for the counseling profession. Stephanie Adams, MA and Carol Doss, PhD leave no stone unturned in this intoxicating book that will leave you inspired and armed to the teeth with resources and information. It should be required reading for every counseling student."
- David P. Diana, www.davidpdiana.com
This is the one book that every new mental health professional should pick up as soon as they enter graduate school. The Beginning Counselor's Survival Guide is a road map, a friend, and a security blanket all rolled into one.
- Tamara G. Suttle, www.allthingsprivatepractice.com
Publication Date:
0615569439 / 9780615569437
Page Count:
Binding Type:
US Trade Paper
Trim Size:
7.5" x 9.25"
Black and White
Related Categories:
Education / Counseling / General
Site Help
Order Help


text:
All Items > Knives > Knife Accessories > Paracord
Green Braided Nylon 550 Para Cord (1000')
- Length:1000 ft.
- Color:Green
- Rating:550 lb.
- Brand:Atwood Rope
- Country of Origin:USA
- Product Type:Paracord
1000 feet of nylon braided 550 cord. Strength tested to 550 pounds. Think about all the knives you could make lanyards for with 1000 feet of paracord!
Made in the USA.
Customer ReviewsWrite a review for this item
Customers Also Bought
Filter By Category
Copyright ©2017 Blade Play. Server: web02All rights reserved


text:
Amazon Instant Video And Flash Update FixFebruary 25th, 2012 - Posted by: John in Computers - Software, Software, Ubuntu, Web Sites
My family regularly view videos from Amazon's Instant Video. We went to rent a movie last night, and the Amazon Video screen said "Updating" and when it was finished, we received an error like that shown below.
After a lot of searching on-line, I found a discussion about the topic on Amazon's Customers Discussions web site. It appears that Amason's Instant Videos, Flash, and Ubuntu all of a sudden don't get along. On the discussion page, there seems to be some fixes, mostly for Ubuntu 64 Bit operating systems. I, however, run 32 Bit Ubuntu. Thanks to one particular post by Erik, I found a solution that seems to work on 32 Bit Ubuntu systems.
Here is my solution based on Erik's advice.
# Install the required packages.
sudo apt-get install hal
# Remove cached junk from Adobe and Macromedia.
# Back these up if you're not sure what you're doing.
rm -r ~/.adobe ~/.macromedia
# Reboot the computer.
#Start Firefox
# The Amazon player updates, and video rentals are now playable again.
Since I was trying all kinds of stuff, I didn't really know what made if finally work, so to confirm my findings, I booted up the Alpha of Ubuntu 12.04 in Virtual Box, confirmed that Amazon Instant video choked, and repeated the above procedure. It worked for me. I am running 32 Bit Ubuntu. I hopes this helps someone else!
John – K7JMTags: Amazon Flash DRM, Amazon Flash Error, Amazon Flash Ubuntu Video error, Amazon hal, Amazon Instant Video Playback Error, Instant Video Player update breaks rights, Sorry we were unable to stream this video, This is likely because your Flash Player needs to be update


text:
Seoul -
Eleven people were injured on Monday evening when an electrical insulator exploded on a South Korean subway train just south of the capital Seoul, national news agency Yonhap said.
The explosion happened as the train was entering Geumjeong station at Gunpo, causing some of its windows to break and injuring 11 people on the platform, Yonhap reported.
"It appears that the accident occurred as an insulator connecting the train to the electric supply equipment suddenly exploded," the agency quoted an official from train operator KORAIL as saying.
All passengers got off at Geumjeong and the train was taken out of service.
The accident happened less than three weeks after two subway trains collided in Seoul, lightly injuring 200 people.
The May 2 accident was blamed on a malfunctioning automatic stopping system. - Sapa-AFP


text:
Brad Armstrong, QC
- Vancouver
- Debbie Modien
- Legal Assistant
Brad has extensive experience in civil litigation, aboriginal law, administrative and constitutional law, and environmental law. He represents clients involved with land use issues, project development, regulatory approvals, environmental assessments, First Nations consultation, and litigation, in a range of natural resource industries including mining, forestry, agriculture, aquaculture, energy, independent power projects, oil and gas, and transportation. His practice extends through Western Canada and the North (including Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut).
Brad acts as counsel in court hearings and in public review hearings, in all levels of the British Columbia Courts and the Federal Courts, and before federal, provincial and territorial boards, panels and commissions.
Brad also has extensive experience in corporate and commercial litigation, injunctions, and environmental prosecutions, as well as competition law.
Brad was the firm's Managing Partner from 2000 through 2003.
Brad is also a regular contributor to the Project Law Blog, a resource that updates proponents on developments in the law and policy that applies to the development of major projects in Canada.
Brad also teaches a course at the University of British Columbia – Natural Resources Law (2010, 2011 and 2017), Oil and Gas Law (2013-2016).
Recognition and Ranking
- Best Lawyers in Canada: recognized for Environmental law and Aboriginal law
- Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory: consistently recommended as a Leading Practitioner for Environmental law and Aboriginal law
- Lexpert Special Edition 2016 and 2017: Leading Canadian Lawyers in Global Mining
- Chambers Canada: recognized in the Aboriginal Law (Canada) and Environment (Canada) category
- Chambers Global: recognized in the following categories:
- Aboriginal law (Canada)
- Environment (Canada)
- Legal 500 Canada: recognized as the Leading lawyer in the Environment category
- Benchmark Canada: The Guide to Canada's Leading Litigation Firms and Attorneys recognized as a Litigation Star for Aboriginal and Energy and Natural Resources litigation in British Columbia
- Who's Who Legal Canada 2016: recognized for Environmental law
- Lexpert Special Edition: Leading Canadian Lawyers in Energy
- Martindale-Hubbell International Law Directory: BV Peer Review rated
- 2011 Lexpert Zenith Award: recognized for Corporate and Law Firm Social Responsibility for his contributions to Family Services of Greater Vancouver
Professional Activities
- Canadian Bar Association, Member
- Canadian Bar Association, Administrative Law Section (BC Branch), Chair (1990-92)
- Canadian Bar Association, Constitutional Law Section (BC Branch), Co-Chair (1992-93)
- Elected Member of the Provincial Council of the B.C. branch of the Canadian Bar Association from 1999 through 2001
- Project Law Blog, Contributor
Community Activities
- Chairman, St. George's School Foundation, 1990 to 1992 (Director, 1988 to 1992)
- Chairman and President of Family Services of Greater Vancouver Society, 2004 to 2006 (Director, 1998 to 2007)
- Member of the Environment Committee of the British Columbia Business Council
- Member of the Board of Governors of Crofton House School and Chair of the Risk Management Committee (2010 to present)
- Geoscience BC, Board Member
Bar Admissions
- British Columbia (1981)
- Northwest Territories (1998)
- Nunavut (1999)
- Yukon Territory (2006)
- Queen's Counsel, British Columbia (2002)
- University of British Columbia (B.A., 1976)
- London School of Economics and Political Science (M.Sc., 1977)
- McGill University (LL.B., 1980)
- Represented a major diamond mining company in environmental assessment and project approval in the Northwest Territories
- Advised government agencies in connection with the regulatory review process for hydroelectric projects in Nunavut
- Represented a major marine transportation agency in Federal Court proceedings involving aboriginal and environmental issues
- Represented a major industrial company in an extensive public environmental review of a hydroelectric project
- Represented a mining company in Federal Court proceedings respecting federal environmental assessment compliance
- Represented various industrial corporations in defending charges under environmental laws and regulations
- Represented a mining company in environmental assessment and project approval in Nunavut
- Represented various resource and industrial companies, and governments, in litigation involving First Nations, aboriginal law, treaty law and constitutional law
- Represented various natural resource companies in obtaining injunctions to prohibit interference with project development and activities
- Represented corporate and shareholder interests in litigation concerning contractual issues, amalgamations and arrangements, take-over bids, proxy materials and oppression remedies
- Represented various businesses in litigation and compliance issues relating to the Competition Act
- (August 22, 2017)
- (February 3, 2015)
- (September 26, 2013),Author
- (March 22, 2013)
- (February 6, 2013)
- (May 24, 2012),Author
- (May 10, 2012)
- (April 20, 2012),Co-Author
- (March 23, 2012),Author
- (March 19, 2012)
- (October 3, 2011)
- (September 22, 2011)
- (March 12, 2010)
- Pacific Business & Law Institute Conference on Administrative Law: Key Concepts and Thorny Issues(July 21, 2009),Author
- "Aboriginal Law Issues"(May 15-16, 2008)
- Insight Conference: British Columbia Power Summit (December 6-7, 2005)(June 2, 2006),Co-Author with Krista L. Hughes and Monica Balaski
- (November 1, 2005),Co-Author
- "Consultation Issues in the Context of the Oil and Gas Industry"(April 25‑26, 2005),Author
- "The Environmental Review Process for Mines in British Columbia and Northern Canada"(April 14-15, 2005)
- "Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Implications for British Columbia Industry"(Updated to November 2004 – December 1-2, 2004)
- The Real Effect on an Aboriginal Title Declaration: Damages, Remedies, Judicial Review and Beyond,Aboriginal Title Litigation: Best Practices and Essential Legal Considerations conference(February 26, 2016),Co-speaker
- "Cooperation Agreements and Benefits Agreements with First Nations", Major Business Agreements Conference, Insight Information,Vancouver, BC(September 26-27, 2013),Speaker
- "Environmental Assessment Process", Environmental Law: Managing Risk,Continuing Legal Education Society of BC(November 18, 2011),Speaker
- "The Duty to Consult in the Context of a Modern Treaty (A Summary of the Supreme Court of Canada decision in the case of Beckman v. Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation, 2010 SCC 53)",and "The Latest Environmental Regulations and Cases Impacting Consultation, 5th Annual Aboriginal Law, Consultation & Accommodation Conference, Canadian Institute, Toronto(February 23-24, 2011),Speaker
- (September 29, 2010),Co-Chair
- "Canadian Environmental Assessment Act", The National 2010 Environmental, Energy and Resources Law Summit: A New Environment - 2010 and Beyond, Canadian Bar Association, Montreal, QC(April 16-17, 2010),Speaker
- "BC Legal Issues Workshop - Developing Resources in BC", Northeast BC Natural Gas Summit on Maximizing Oil & Gas Development Opportunities in Northeast BC, Insight Information(September 30-October 1, 2009),Speaker
- (September 30, 2009),Speaker
- "Jurisdiction: Various Issues",Administrative Law: Key Concepts and Thorny Issues, Pacific Business & Law Institute, Vancouver, BC(February 5, 2009),Speaker
- 2nd Annual Environmental Law & Regulation North of 60°,Canadian Institute, Edmonton, AB(November 13, 2008),Speaker
- "First Nations and the Environment; Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Air Quality Standards; and Environmental Monitoring",Fundamentals of Environmental Law and Regulation North of 60º Conference, Canadian Institute, Calgary, AB.(May 15-16, 2008),Speaker
- "Project Challenges, Blockades and Injunctions",Environmental and Aboriginal Issues for Oil and Gas Development in Northeast British Columbia, Lawson Lundell Conference, Calgary, AB.(March 13, 2008),Speaker
- "Legal Issues and Risks in the Project Review Process",Project Development Legal Workshop, Lawson Lundell, Vancouver, B.C.(May 30, 2007),Speaker
- 2nd Annual Western Canada Aboriginal Law Forum: Understanding the Changing Legal and Business Horizon, Insight Information, Vancouver, BC(May 8-9, 2006),Co-Chair
- "Aboriginal Issues in the Forest Sector",CBA National Aboriginal Law Section Conference: The New Realities of Doing Business Indigenous Peoples and Natural Resources, Canadian Bar Association, Calgary, AB.(March 10-11, 2006),Speaker
- "Roles and Responsibilities for Industry and Federal/Provincial Regulators",The Supreme Court of Canada Decision in Mikisew Cree First Nation, Pacific Business & Law Institute, Vancouver, BC(March 8, 2006),Speaker
- "Regulatory Approaches to Air Emissions: Practical Impacts",5th Annual Environmental Law in BC Conference, Insight Information, Vancouver, BC(February 8-9, 2006),Speaker


text:
Wasn't Eli's hair darker last season?
The Good Wife Premiere.
|by Anonymous
|reply 288
That was a very hot sex scene.
|by Anonymous
|reply 1
Is this a Call of Duty reference?
|by Anonymous
|reply 2
And Kalina looked OLD.
|by Anonymous
|reply 3
Don't know about that, but the case itself never would have made it to indictment. To quote Casey Novak, "I can't take this to the grand jury!"
|by Anonymous
|reply 4
I don't understand Julia Marguiles.
Her dyed black hair looks horrid and trashy. Her hair is fried and hangs in clumps in a horrid style.
Her face looks old and beat-up, yet she currently has a tv cosmetic commercial for skin cream that I'm sure gives her a couple million dollars per year. I would never buy a skin cream from her.
|by Anonymous
|reply 5
Also, she seems to be married to a gay life in real life in some sort of friendship or bearding situation.
|by Anonymous
|reply 6
gay guy in real life
|by Anonymous
|reply 7
I noticed the hair too -- even last season. I thought it looked like a bad wig.
|by Anonymous
|reply 8
She has a beautiful face but she supposedly wears a wig on the show.
|by Anonymous
|reply 9
I think it was a wig last year.
Eli as lobbyist at the law firm is less interesting than Eli as political schemer.
|by Anonymous
|reply 10
She wears a wig on the show. But then I saw her on the red carpet at the Emmys and her hair still looked like shit.
|by Anonymous
|reply 11
If that is a wig, you would think they would acquire a wig that had some shiny, healthy beauty to it, rather than the dull, shinelss, drab, dried up, fried piece of crap that is on her head.
|by Anonymous
|reply 12
I really love The Good Wife. I started late, having to read up on the first two seasons and watching maybe 40% of the episodes from the first two seasons, including the last 4 from the second season.
I'd give the season 3 premiere a 6.5/10. The Palestinian and Jewish student hate crime, protest, murder, gay affair story line would have worked much better over 2 or three episodes. They did a good job of building up the "who done it" question as to the killing of the Jewish student, but the whole gay thing was just thrown in and resolved so quickly, almost an after thought.
|by Anonymous
|reply 13
If they were really trying to capture the reality of high-pressure attorney jobs, then Alisha's hair would be fairly accurate. But, it doesn't match their "reality" of everyone looking impeccably made up all of the time. The cute ASA looks like he stepped out of GQ. Sure, that does actually happen from time to time, but it's far from the norm. Even when attorneys are wearing expensive clothes, they are often look at least a little bit rough around the edges.
|by Anonymous
|reply 14
I agree about the story, that it would have been better as a two-parter.
But I thought it was terrific nonetheless. I like how they're setting up Peter and Alicia as adversaries in court as well as in their separation, and I like how Eli is walking the line with ties to Peter and now Alicia. Surprised they got Kelli Giddish back when she's now a regular on SVU as well.
|by Anonymous
|reply 15
[quote] Surprised they got Kelli Giddish back when she's now a regular on SVU as well.
Both shows are shot in NYC, it's easy to do.
I was more surprised by Peter Jacobson's guest shot, given that he's doing HOUSE in LA.
And speaking of HOUSE, how soon before Lisa Edelstein shows up to come between Will and Alicia?
The sex scene was hot.
And Cary looked SMOKING HOT tonight - is he fucking Kalinda?
|by Anonymous
|reply 16
I don't think Lisa Edelstein comes between Will and Alicia - I think she's an ex of his who has information that he doesn't want known, so she's more of an adversary.
|by Anonymous
|reply 17
Saw a TV commercial for The Good Wife last night and instead of the raggedy, burnt, fried dyed black hair that Julia Marguiles was sporting at The Emmys (and in the show), she was wearing a very obvious brown wig that is quite different from her normal dyed black hair or black wig.
The new brown wig did not look good either.
|by Anonymous
|reply 18
I wanted the prosecuting attorney to show up in court wearing Speedos; he was HOT!
|by Anonymous
|reply 19
That sex scene was pretty steamy for network. All that talk about perfect penis placement.
|by Anonymous
|reply 20
What did they say about penis placement?
|by Anonymous
|reply 21
I'm surprised they got away with that sex scene - and at 9pm, not even 10 pm.
|by Anonymous
|reply 22
They had a close=up of Josh Charles' big cock, r21, and he asked Julianna where she would like him to place it, in her mouth, ass or vagina. It was quite racy.
Oh, and her answer was "All three. I can go all night!"
|by Anonymous
|reply 23
"Don't cum yet, Will. I want it all in my mouth! But don't get it on the wig. It isn't machine washable."
|by Anonymous
|reply 24
Eli is the weakest link in a series with many weak links that demands much in the way of suspension of logic on the part of viewers. Eli's role is very poorly written, and Alan Cumming has no clue what to do with it. Even though Eli has some measure of ruthlessness and scheming about him, Cumming plays him as a man forever quaking in his boots.
|by Anonymous
|reply 25
I'm sure he or she did not use the words 'ass, mouth, or vagina' - how did he really phrase it?
|by Anonymous
|reply 26
"Butt, piehole, or cunt," r26.
|by Anonymous
|reply 27
R22 - because the football game went overtime that afternoon, the show didn't start on the East Coast until 9:30 - and that scene didn't happen until 10:15. So no problems with "adult" material for 50%+ of the viewing audience.
|by Anonymous
|reply 28
r25, you are insane. Alan C is the best part of the show.
Granted his new vague lobbying job is less interesting than being campaign manager or whatever role he played during Peter's run for office. He was fantastic at that.
|by Anonymous
|reply 29
Alicia is turning into a very unsympathetic, holier than thou character.
|by Anonymous
|reply 30
Eli is supposed to be David Alexrod. But, since he isn't an atty., there was a job for him on Peter's team. They should get down and dirty about Chicago politics -- far more than they have done.
|by Anonymous
|reply 31
Right R28. But that didn't happen all over the country and even if it had, I doubt they knew football would go long when they filmed it.
|by Anonymous
|reply 32
Loved the first show.
Much hotness, including Kalinda and her ex-girlfriend.
Loved it.
|by Anonymous
|reply 33
Also...the oddball tutor.
Now there is an original character...loved her too.
Carey has gotten hotter.
|by Anonymous
|reply 34
the oddball tutor is a trans character.
|by Anonymous
|reply 35
Ya think? I'm getting a homo vibe here.
|by Anonymous
|reply 36
It is really annoying that my favorite show on TV on got half recorded because of some stupid, fucking football game.
|by Anonymous
|reply 37
I've lost all interest in this show and no longer watch it.
Now that Julianna is no longer the 'good wife' and carrying on a torrid office affair, I find her character to be rather unsympathetic and holier-than-thou. And really judgmental with no compassion.
|by Anonymous
|reply 38
There's not enough Kalinda this year.
|by Anonymous
|reply 39
I like to see Kalinda and Eli colluding and there should be more sex scenes between Alicia and Will.
Her from House is, frankly, a distraction. She needs to have a very short guest arc.
The cases are not as juicy.
|by Anonymous
|reply 40
This show is OVAH.
It's a shame -- it coulda been a contender!
Revenge is my new "must-see" show. And Pan Am's getting better every week.
|by Anonymous
|reply 41
r41 has horrible taste.
|by Anonymous
|reply 42
The new woman attorney who had a thing with will is really ugly. And I can't see a corporate attorney with all those trashy piercing.
And speaking of ugly, I think Christine Baranski's Whoville nose is one of the best examples of bad plastic surgery on TV.
|by Anonymous
|reply 43
Is Dallas Whatever ever going to get his own storyline? I want him and Kalinda to become friends and hang out.
|by Anonymous
|reply 44
Matt Czuchry is HOT
|by Anonymous
|reply 45
r45, I've seen him around Hollywood. He has a giant head.
|by Anonymous
|reply 46
Matt Czuchry does look good, but his character is so castrated by Lockhart Gardener he seems so inept.
|by Anonymous
|reply 47
Agree w/ r47. Cary should win a few cases (and Alicia/LG should lose some). Just to keep it borderline realistic.
|by Anonymous
|reply 48
R46: Most people who film well have disproportionately large heads.
|by Anonymous
|reply 49
r46 - i hope you are talking about his d**k head
|by Anonymous
|reply 50
Lisa Edelstein doesn't have much to do. And she plays an annoying bitch. I miss her on House. I think it was a bad move.
I still like this show. Love Carey, Kalinda, Eli and Diane. Hate Lisa E, I keep waiting for Will to sell Alicia down the river which is the only suspense so far this year.
|by Anonymous
|reply 51
Anyone understand the rationale for moving the show to Sunday night?
|by Anonymous
|reply 52
No. I think the move hurts.
OH!! And I want more of Alicia's brother. He's fun. Especially with Jackie, although I like how he interacts with all of them.
|by Anonymous
|reply 53
I don't think Alicia is holier-than-thou. It seems to me she's getting a little darker and more cutthroat. Being dishonest seems to come more natural to her now.
She did seem to have a twinge of guilt when the mediator told her he knew she played him.
I agree about Eli, the character is interesting and Cummings is fine - but he is a lot less compelling this year.
I think Peter is going to turn into a real bastard. That's what happens sometimes when people realize they're not getting their ex back they become very hateful towards them.
|by Anonymous
|reply 54
Perhaps. I think they want to leave the possibility open that he and Alicia will get back together.
I agree that the show has lost an edge. Hope it picks up soon. I'm certainly not done with it yet.
|by Anonymous
|reply 55
I liked the show this week...Lockhart-Gardner goes good.
|by Anonymous
|reply 56
Love this show.
This week's episode was much better than last.
|by Anonymous
|reply 57
Another good show. Lisa E is less of a bitch. LOVED the wife killer coming back in. Will is showing his colors.
I'm wondering if Kalinda didn't really sleep with Peter or if there's some other story going on there.
Seems like Eli is back in the swing too. Looks like we meet Eli's ex next week.
Also I really like the bitter, bitchy divorce lawyer guy. He cracks me up.
I was sad when Alicia and Lisa E went out drinking instead of Alicia and Kalinda.
|by Anonymous
|reply 58
I like that Will is turning out to be a bit unlikable.
But that was a low blow, telling Alicia that she was the Kaitlyn.
|by Anonymous
|reply 59
I have to wonder if that was true. If it isn't, bitchy family lawyer David will wind up telling her. But as mean as it was, the show needed to take Alicia down a peg. I mean EVERY LAWYER she goes up against offers her a job. I get the whole connection to Peter thing, but please.
|by Anonymous
|reply 60
Lisa Edelstein's eyebrows (drawn on) are hideous.
Matt Czuchry is SMOKING HOT.
|by Anonymous
|reply 61
Fantastic episode this week. Alicia smack-down and Will turns the knife in her back.
But completely in line with the rest of the story--she would never have been hired, after a 15(?) year break from law, without someone's intervention. At that point her husband was in jail so it's not like she could claim to have influence.
Of course the whole "interview our potential associates" job looked thankless to begin with. Who wants to listen to a lot of pre-formed regurgitated crap?
|by Anonymous
|reply 62
And if the separation goes public, WILL people stop fawning on Alicia as much? From the get-go, she's been called on for her "connections." And while they are playing it as if the divorce would be a career killer for Peter, really? There are LOTS of divorced politicians these days. It would be a lot stupider for them to play nice during an upcoming campaign, and get called on it in the press than it would be for them to just break up and move on.
Lisa E. is having a blast with her character, and it's a lot of fun to watch.
|by Anonymous
|reply 63
The first thing I noticed when I started watching the show was that Margulies was in a wig and a bad wig at that. The hair doesn't even look as if is has part. A wig with parts and a scalp is called a mono wig.
Aren't there expert supplemental hair people in Hollywood?
Her own hair was always beautiful, so I wondered, why a wig? Unless she is now suffering from hair loss? Many women in their 40s experience hormone fluctuations which cause hair loss and extreme texture changes in the hair.
If the role required a more conservative hairstyle, the hairstylist basically needed to flat iron her own curly hair. The wig is very distracting.
|by Anonymous
|reply 64
Curly hair tends to have a mind of its own. And her hair was kinky/curly. I think the wig was for continuity. Ugly or not at least it is always the same.
|by Anonymous
|reply 65
The US Attorney in Chicago, Pat Fitzgerald, started dating his (now) wife when she had been married for only two years. She (Jenni Letzkus) quickly got a divorce and St. Pat wasn't at all sullied by the affair. The only weird part was that the USAO public relations person tried to make Letzkus sound like some powerhouse investment banker who became a Head Start teacher. She actually had some low level job in finance and her mom got her a teaching gig.
Chicagoans talk about running Fitzgerald for Senate. So divorce and affairs mean nothing.
|by Anonymous
|reply 66
It's not a great wig (or series of wigs), but it's not as terrible as all that.
Why are people so surprised that so many female leads in films and especially TV wear wigs? Women on stage do as well.
It's a continuity thing: as most women can confirm, you simply cannot count on your hair doing exactly the same thing every day, every scene, minute to minute. It will hang differently, the texture may change, curl, no curl, body, no body, etc.
Alicia's character simply wouldn't run around with messy, frizzy hair.
|by Anonymous
|reply 67
Eli's "wife" Parker Posey, tonight. Should be fun.
|by Anonymous
|reply 68
It looks like they're focusing more on Carey and the crime side as well as the court side. I like this. I like Carey.
Wish Alicia and Kalinda would get back together.
|by Anonymous
|reply 69
I don't like Parker Posey's new face.
|by Anonymous
|reply 70
Alicia finally lost a case.
Her conversations with Will are quite stilted now like we're not supposed to know her or his true feelings.
I guess the new blonde is stalking Will?
|by Anonymous
|reply 71
Hurray - no Lisa Edelstein and her painted-on eyebrows this week!
what was all that hubbub about Alicia's computer and her son and cranky IT guy? Will meeting the son was funny and weird, but it's hard to believe they've never met before.
Cary finally got some, but we didn't see them fucking - WE NEED CARY NAKED!
|by Anonymous
|reply 72
R59, I didn't think it was a low blow. I thought it was the truth. It's usually who you know and networking that gets you the job anyway.
Anna Camp's character is going to be trouble for Will (and Alicia).
|by Anonymous
|reply 73
Anyone recognize Jake Silbermann as a guest star? He looked pretty good in a speedo in the scene where his character talks to Kalinda.
|by Anonymous
|reply 74
r74 he looked wonderful...
|by Anonymous
|reply 75
why is Eli now the focus of the show?
|by Anonymous
|reply 76
It would have been better for Eli to be with the DA office as Peter's Chief of Staff.
|by Anonymous
|reply 77
There's not enough Kalinda. The show just isn't interesting without her. And I don't care about all these new characters.
|by Anonymous
|reply 78
[R74] All Jake Silbermann has going for him is from the neck down. He was in a speedo because he is a horrible actor. The scene itself was blessedly short.
|by Anonymous
|reply 79
I like her lawyer.
|by Anonymous
|reply 80
Her lawyer is on True Blood. She's great.
|by Anonymous
|reply 81
"I want to learn from you" that was great! I loved her lawyer especially when she was talking to that treasury guy and told him his voice was scarey and she forgot the question.
|by Anonymous
|reply 82
I love her lawyer! She's great!
But, I concur with the other posters that we need more Kalinda.
|by Anonymous
|reply 83
And when they were showing the gov't lawyer (love Bob Balaban) bringing up Kalinda as "someone of Middle Eatern descent" I wondered if Alica would correct her; aren't we meant to believe that Kalinda is of Indian descent; they consider themselves Near Easterners, and in fact aren't Muslims.
|by Anonymous
|reply 84
Well, there's also the problem that Kalinda is not her real name. All Alicia knows is that her name used to be Leela. I'm sure she wanted to avoid having that mess emerge.
Loved last night's episode.
|by Anonymous
|reply 85
I wish they were unraveling Kalinda/Leela's strange past instead of spending time on all this other stuff.
|by Anonymous
|reply 86
Where do you think the whole daughter being a religious nut is leading, if anywhere?
|by Anonymous
|reply 87
Everything they are doing with Grace makes me think she will come out. The one friend she had last season she had a weird chemistry with and they talked about being gay a few times, then she got into that weird youtube Jesus guy. and it tends to come up a lot when she is on screen.
|by Anonymous
|reply 88
Carrie Preston (who played Alicia's lawyer) in real life is married to Michael Emerson from "Lost" and "Persons of Interest".
|by Anonymous
|reply 89
All the subplots with the daughter every season are getting annoying. Every season gets better and better. I'm loving this show. I just hope the whole Peter/ jealous ex-husband going after his wife's firm storyline isn't just that.
They film in NY but takes place in Chicago. When Bob B. and Carrie P. were chatting on the bench on his lunch break, did no one notice that Radio City Music Hall was right there in the background?
|by Anonymous
|reply 90
Good episode
Now Kalinda and Diane know that Alicia and boss are sleeping together...
The daughter is just sad, she says she has no friends...I believe it.
Bob Balaban was great...as was the lady lawyer.
|by Anonymous
|reply 91
I think that the kooky red-headed lawyer should get her own show.
|by Anonymous
|reply 92
What were we supposed to get from that conversation between Will and Peter where Will says something like... Don't pursue this past issue about me because a lot more than you want will come out... or words to that effect?
|by Anonymous
|reply 93
I took it as something the Writers were using to indicate that the season had more drama up it's sleeve as opposed to something we saw already and were being reminded of.
|by Anonymous
|reply 94
I've always thought that the daughter was a big problem for the show-the young actress playing her is such a nothing. But making her into a forlorn, lonely girl is sorta interesting. Damn, the kid playing the son is getting better and better looking. Is he 18 yet?
Parker Posey looked alarmingly like Katharine Hepburn. Carrie Preston deserves an Emmy nomination for Best Guest Performance in a Drama even though her work in it has been primarily comedic.
|by Anonymous
|reply 95
R93, I think Will actually loves Alicia... As best he can... and when she told him that it's not serious between the two of them ( Will offered to meet her kids, she's like, no that's not necessary)...it hurt him.
So when Peter is challenging Will a bit about the $45,000 Will was kind of childishly saying, don't ask me about that or I'll tell everybody I'm fucking your wife.
|by Anonymous
|reply 96
I had never seen Carrie Preston before. She stole every scene she was in.
|by Anonymous
|reply 97
R95, Graham Phillips (Zach Florrick) turned 18 this year. He is adorably cute!
|by Anonymous
|reply 98
Carrie Preston cleans up real good!
|by Anonymous
|reply 99
Glad they brought back the kooky lawyer. She's great and much more entertaining than the House lady.
|by Anonymous
|reply 100
Carrie Preston has been in True Blood since the beginning. She plays a waitress at the bar/diner.
|by Anonymous
|reply 101
Good episode this Sunday, Nov. the 13th.
The only thing I hated was Kalinda kissing Cary.
Other than that good story movement all around.
|by Anonymous
|reply 102
good episode
|by Anonymous
|reply 103
Liked this episode too. I didn't want to like the Chris Matthews bit but he was actually quite good. Don't know where they're going with Cary and Kalinda but I love both actors/characters so much that the more they interact the better.
|by Anonymous
|reply 104
Cary and Kalinda is so predictable it's annoying.
|by Anonymous
|reply 105
Kalinda is desired by all, men and women alike.
|by Anonymous
|reply 106
I liked it. I also like Kalinda and Cary together and I also like each of them with the Lie to Me chick. Threesome?
|by Anonymous
|reply 107
The young politician Eli was helping was hot too. I was hoping the fellating Santa photo would mean he'd have to come out....
And Jackie going thru Alicia's stuff - that's just nasty. But next week Alicia's affair with Will becomes the front-burner story for the rest of the season. Kalinda and Diane know now, and Jackie will find out and tell Peter....
|by Anonymous
|reply 108
I would much rather have seen Kalinda hook up with that Lie to Me chick than Cary. I like her chemistry with Cary but it would be better left as sexual tension.
Typical Jackie what a nosy old bag! I think Peter more than clearly knows about Will and Alicia at this point, or does he just suspect?
Good cases this week, a marked improvement.
|by Anonymous
|reply 109
I love watching Cary be tortured - he's got the bluest balls on TV. No woman will shtupp him - not Alicia, not Kalinda, not this black chick. He gets as far as a kiss and then something happens or the woman walks away...
Come to Daddy, baby....
|by Anonymous
|reply 110
What was up with Archie Panjabi's American accent this last episode? It was very shaky, particularly on words like "compartment." Do you think it's leading up to a reveal that Kalinda/Leela is really British?
|by Anonymous
|reply 111
Where do you think they're going with the office computer issues Zach has been fixing?
|by Anonymous
|reply 112
Did anyone else get a sense of deja vu last week with the lawyer Carrie Preston was playing? All of that self-deprecating-I'm-so-dumb-you'll-have-to-help-me-out-here stuff which disguises a mind like a steel trap: this is reminiscent of the character Mamie Gummer has played on this show a few times. Wonder if the part was written for her character and she couldn't do it? Would make more sense -- Alicia would know her and would be more likely to go to someone she had experience with first hand.
|by Anonymous
|reply 113
r113 - I believe that Alicia had already worked with the red-head before.
|by Anonymous
|reply 114
[quote]Where do you think they're going with the office computer issues Zach has been fixing?
Yes, there's definitely something there...with both Alica and Will getting a blue screen of death. I wonder if the kid is hacking both their computers?
|by Anonymous
|reply 115
I thought he was putting their files into a "cloud" and the IT guy knew this and was like "fine - have it your way."
To me, this sets them up as potentially having a story line about how the firm might their client info and secret documents vulnerable to hacking and being published or something like that. And Alicia will be to blame! And so will Peter's kid which means the DA will have a mess on it's hands, too, since it could be construed that the DA sent in his kid to hack the firm he's investigating!
|by Anonymous
|reply 116
Red-head lawyer Carrie Preston represented Peter in the first season of the show, when he was on trial for whatever it was, after the adultery scandal first broke. So of course Alicia knows her.
|by Anonymous
|reply 117
Archie Panjabi looks sick to me or something. I thought she was pretty attractive before this past season, but something seems off with her now.
|by Anonymous
|reply 118
[quote]Archie Panjabi looks sick to me or something. I thought she was pretty attractive before this past season, but something seems off with her now.
She's not getting enough pussy.
On the show.
|by Anonymous
|reply 119
Oh, Kalinda.
Nice turn of events — Kalinda being the one with blue balls while Cary gets the girl.
Are Christine Baranski's character and Alan Cumming's character headed for a relationship? i thought I picked up chemistry this episode.
|by Anonymous
|reply 120
That hot kid of hers she's about to buy a car will only disappoint her.
|by Anonymous
|reply 121
(he won't suck her dick)
|by Anonymous
|reply 122
no matter his lips and aching eyes
|by Anonymous
|reply 123
Thought Christine Baranski was terrific in her scene with Josh Charles on the roof (or wherever they shoot that).
I gather from the promo for the new episode in two weeks that Grace, that hideously plain, socially maladjusted daughter goes 'missing.' Obviously she's just run off to be with that freaky religious garu she's been watching online . . .
|by Anonymous
|reply 124
Agree with R124.
Christine Baranski was mesmerizing during her scene with Josh Charles. That scene alone could win her an Emmy.
Alicia's son gets cuter and hotter with every episode.
|by Anonymous
|reply 125
[quote[Christine Baranski was mesmerizing during her scene with Josh Charles. That scene alone could win her an Emmy.
Both that scene and the one with Alan Cumming. I'd love to see Baranski get the Emmy for this role.
|by Anonymous
|reply 126
Piling on with the Baranski praise. She rocked it last night...definitely her Emmy submission episode.
|by Anonymous
|reply 127
Chorus of Baranski approval.
Loved how that single black female chick is stealing Kalinda's style, her cock teasing/clit teasing and her man! I really want a showdown between them and for Alicia and Kalinda to get back together.
Nice little smackdown to nosy Grandma. Did the daughter mean her Mom was a bitch or the Grandma? Was it supposed to ambiguous? If not the line reading was really off.
|by Anonymous
|reply 128
R128, I thought she meant the grandmother was a bitch, but you're right that it wasn't really clear.
|by Anonymous
|reply 129
I thought she meant the Grandmother too.
Am I alone in feeling the military trial left something out? It was weird. The defendent was very rigid and strange. The whole thing just felt off.
|by Anonymous
|reply 130
The writing this season has been awful.
|by Anonymous
|reply 131
R131, you have any backup for saying the writing's been awful this year?
Because I'm thinking you're an idiot.
|by Anonymous
|reply 132
r132, have you watched this season of the show? Have you watched any previous seasons? There's no suspense, the characterization is flat, the stories are flat and could fit into any procedural, shall I go on? And can they reverse your lobotomy or is this state of idiocy and incoherency permanent for you?
|by Anonymous
|reply 133
I was grateful to see just how the drone program works.
The opening sequence of the show, thoughtfully illustrated the time delays...and the sometimes young soldiers that operate these weapons from great distances.
|by Anonymous
|reply 134
R133...you are welcome to your opinion but I disagree.
|by Anonymous
|reply 135
I'm a writer for this show and you critics can fuck off!
|by Anonymous
|reply 136
I disagree too.
|by Anonymous
|reply 137
Nothing about how good Amy Sedaris looked?
|by Anonymous
|reply 138
Like Amy Sedaris as an adversary for Eli. Hope we have seen the last of her from House. The writing has not been consistent this season. The cast is too disparate and there are too many random plot strands.
|by Anonymous
|reply 139
Amy was off to a rough start, but she righted the ship.
I love this show. When I was disappointed because I anticipated a Cary/Kalinda love connection, they proved me wrong. So much more interesting for Cary to be strung along, and Kalinda to continue being Kalinda.
r131, you're entitled to your opinion, but I also disagree with it.
Even Alan Cumming's character is great. He's finally playing someone other than himself, and he's pretty decent at it.
|by Anonymous
|reply 140
I think Cumming's work in this is his best to date.
|by Anonymous
|reply 141
While Baranski and Cumming have done excellent work this season (esp. of late), the show is "The Good Wife" and Alicia's storyline has been only part of a larger picture this season, since she separated from Peter at the end of last season.
I think starting with this Jackie thing and the pressure on Will (from Diane), and next episode's "kidnapping" story, the rest of the season will get us back to Alicia as the central figure with everyone else's drama taking a backseat, which is when the show is at its best.
|by Anonymous
|reply 142
Interesting show tonight. Deb from Dexter was on as an ultra-Christian fired by liberals for being ultra-Christian. At least, that was Alicia's argument. They walked the line very deftly. It was well done.
|by Anonymous
|reply 143
Kalinda does a selfless thing. Can't wait for that to be discovered.
|by Anonymous
|reply 144
Glad Alicia is done with Will.
|by Anonymous
|reply 145
I've stopped watching the show, but why did Alicia break up with Will?
I want Peter & Alicia back together again, and when they broke up I stopped watching the show.
|by Anonymous
|reply 146
I know this sounds wrong, but do you think Michael J. Fox's parkinson's ticks gives his acting a new interesting dimensions?
|by Anonymous
|reply 147
146 -- they lost track of daughter Grace for a couple of hours and thought she'd been kidnapped (Kalinda found her and brought her home.) Alicia freaked and thought she hadn't "been there" for Grace and so decided to focus on her family and dump Will.
There was reason for concern: Grace got in a car after school with a man the family didn't know, calling her mother from the car. She put her phone in her back pocket -- the pressure from sitting on the redial button sent 12 additional calls to her mother. Kalinda checked the phone's GPS and tracked Grace to a church where she was being secretly baptized by a teenage boy. She brought Grace home but made her promise not to tell Kalinda had been involved (that whole Peter/Kalinda affair would have made things awkward.)
|by Anonymous
|reply 148
I want more of Will as an addictive gambler and a corrupt lawyer.
Evil Will is sexier than good guy Will.
|by Anonymous
|reply 149
I really enjoy Michael J Fox on the show but thought his Parkinson's symptoms were more prominent last night. I hope he's alright.
I loved Eli trying to socialize with people at work. Alan Cumming and Christine Baranski are wonderful together.
|by Anonymous
|reply 150
Agree R150, love Alan Cumming and Christine Baranski together. Also loved the scene between Eli and Will. Josh was particularly good there and Julia was amazing in this episode.
|by Anonymous
|reply 151
I think Christine's/Alan's characters are going to end up together — or at least in bed together — and Christine's character is going to have to eat her words on intra-office relationships.
|by Anonymous
|reply 152
The writing is garbage this year.
|by Anonymous
|reply 153
[quote] I really enjoy Michael J Fox on the show but thought his Parkinson's symptoms were more prominent last night.
I can't stand him.
And I don't like Baranski's Whoville nose. It is very distracting.
Otherwise, I really like this show, but think it is unraveling this season. It seems to be losing focus. When it was about the Florick's marriage, it had a center.
|by Anonymous
|reply 154
Not a word about WHY Grace disappeared - she went off to be Baptized!
This later-in-life religious turn she's taken is only going to make things worse at home - Alicia and Peter are now both adulterers, which Grace won't deal well with at all, not to mention her uncle Owen the openly gay man....
|by Anonymous
|reply 155
The writing hard sucks. This past ep was a model of the economy of good storytelling and great pacing.
I had very ambivalent feelings about Alicia's decision to break it off with Will - it certainly did seem to be coming from a place of personal empowerment, some measure of which Alicia is trying to achieve. That's good stuff, and very realistic. (Though I can't stand Will, and wish Alicia wasn't attracted to his smug, predictable ass.) When Alicia has her moment of panic and guilt in her bedroom, I was reminded strongly of Graham Greene's "The End of the Affair." Alicia may not be a Catholic, but she's a rather rigid moralist. That's why her relationship with Kalinda has been so powerful and interesting, and why it's been a disappointment that they've been kept apart so long this season.
|by Anonymous
|reply 156
I too agree that this season was (is) awful. The last two seasons I couldn't wait to see the next episode. This season? If I think of it, I watch it.
And Pan Am's getting better all the time.
|by Anonymous
|reply 157
R154...stop trying to make Whoville nose happen.
|by Anonymous
|reply 158
R157 I totally agree. I haven't watched it this year, except the first episode of the season.
Alicia is becoming so holier-than-thou, she is totally unsympathetic.
I don't blame Peter for cheating on her at all. What a cold bitch.
|by Anonymous
|reply 159
[quote]stop trying to make Whoville nose happen.
Whoville nose.
|by Anonymous
|reply 160
R156 here. That should be "the writing HARDLY sucks." What a difference an adverb makes.
|by Anonymous
|reply 161
Holier than thou? What show are you watching? She's technically a married woman fucking one of her bosses while her other boss is disapproving and her daughter is becoming a born-again Christian.
|by Anonymous
|reply 162
|by Anonymous
|reply 163
It was great tonight. So I'm bumping this thread.
|by Anonymous
|reply 164
I liked it too. We see a new side to Peter. Or an old side reborn. At the end, I wanted the person meeting Alicia at the bar to be Kalinda.
|by Anonymous
|reply 165
r165, I did too. But I thought the ending was more realistic with Diane. I wonder who Will is going to hire as his attorney?
I didn't like the Will and Alicia storyline - I'm glad it's sort of run it's course.
|by Anonymous
|reply 166
Will still seems to be enamored. Alicia seemed relieved but when Diane said to Will, "She'll get over it." He looked stricken and then shut down.
I think he should get Michael J Fox. Just because he's so much fun to watch.
|by Anonymous
|reply 167
It has already been revealed that Will will hired that red haired woman who represented Alicia a couple episode back.
She is the red haired one who seemed very ditzy, but is not.
|by Anonymous
|reply 168
[quote]I didn't like the Will and Alicia storyline - I'm glad it's sort of run it's course.
They are definitely setting that one up for a restart at some point. Hopefully, it will be in a few seasons when I'm officially sick of the show because I HATE Will and the actor who plays him.
I'm so glad they've gotten Alicia and Kalinda back in some scenes together on the show. That's the heart of the show and that's what's been missing this year. Loved that Kalinda told that evangelizing idiot that she'd hurt him if he came near Grace again.
|by Anonymous
|reply 169
Thanks r168. I must of missed that.
|by Anonymous
|reply 170
The show was better tonight because THERE WAS NO ELI!!!
His character doesn't fit anymore now that Peter's won his election.
And speaking of, that scene between Will and Wendy Scott-Carr on the basketball court was quite the shocker, no?
I can't wait for football season to end so we don't have to wait for an hour to see the show...
|by Anonymous
|reply 171
The woman playing Wendy is great.
So glad Kalinda is getting back in the fold.
|by Anonymous
|reply 172
[quote]The show was better tonight because THERE WAS NO ELI!!!
It was also better because until the very end, there was almost no Will. He and Eli need to both go out in a gangland shooting in the dramatic season finale.
|by Anonymous
|reply 173
I like Eli. I want him and Diane together.
And where is Cuddy? She quit House to do what? Guest once on this show?
|by Anonymous
|reply 174
Also, they seem to be trying to make the audience stop wanting Alicia back with Peter. A lot of fans want that and now we're seeing how ruthless and mean he can be. Makes Will look better to me.
|by Anonymous
|reply 175
Cuddy will re-emerge as the bribery scandal unfolds. She's in it chin deep and she has some info on Will as well.
|by Anonymous
|reply 176
The scene with Anika Noni Rose and Josh Charles was a heat surprise. Alan Cumming is great as Eli and he is in the middle of the Peter/Will investigation. I like the new aspect of the Alicia/Diane relationship. I think the producers are trying to get the audience invested in a renewal of Alicia and Peter. Margulies and Noth had excellent chemistry in last night's episode.
|by Anonymous
|reply 177
Anika Noni Rose plays one of the greatest villains I have ever seen.
She makes me want to rip that woman's face off.
Great actress.
|by Anonymous
|reply 178
RE: Alicia and Kalinda were sitting in the car.
|by Anonymous
|reply 179
Picture it: Sicily ("Chicago"), 2011.
Alicia and Kalinda get drunk. Possibly debating whether to go back to Peter or possibly discussing her feelings of vulnerability over the situation, Alicia tells Kalinda that she is curious to feel what Peter felt, having all those women at his beck and call. Kalinda offers to show her.
|by Anonymous
|reply 180
Was it just me, or was there a bit of hostile sexual energy between Wendy and Will? I know she is supposed to be dedicated to her husband, but that was the read I got.
|by Anonymous
|reply 181
The sexual tension between the actors on this show is intense. Men/Women..Women/Women..Men/Men.
Great season so far.
|by Anonymous
|reply 182
Why was there no new episode this week?
|by Anonymous
|reply 183
They are on a holiday break r183 not sure where you're from but all the US shows take them lasting anywhere from 4 weeks to 8 weeks depending on the show. I believe GW is set to return Jan 15.
|by Anonymous
|reply 184
It's idiotic for them to take winter breaks when everyone is tilting around trying to avoid talking to their family members.
|by Anonymous
|reply 185
I love r185.
|by Anonymous
|reply 186
I really liked the Bitcoin episode despite the appearance of Jason Biggs.
|by Anonymous
|reply 187
I liked it too. More Kalinda and the kookie lawyer and less Will. Jason Biggs was adequate if not interesting.
|by Anonymous
|reply 188
I love, love, love the grey-area flirtation between Kalinda and Cary's new girlfriend.
|by Anonymous
|reply 189
I love Kalinda's boots...still.
The grandmother was in "Follies" singing and vamping it up on the song "An, Paris!"
Mary Beth Peil, trained as an opera singer and in her 70's.
Who knew?
|by Anonymous
|reply 190
Spinoff that crazy lawyer, I adore her
|by Anonymous
|reply 191
I agree, R191, Carrie Preston definitely deserves her own spin-off. And if she's not nominated for a Best Guest Performance Emmy I'm gonna be pissed.
That teeny tiny gf of Alicia's hot son is very cute and a good actress with a lovely, melodic speaking voice.
|by Anonymous
|reply 192
[quote] They are on a holiday break [R183] not sure where you're from but all the US shows take them lasting anywhere from 4 weeks to 8 weeks depending on the show. I believe GW is set to return Jan 15.
Actually the show returned on January 8th.
|by Anonymous
|reply 193
The January 29 episode was excellent.
This is still a really enjoyable show.
I'm not sure about the Alan Cummings/Amy Sederis
thing, but I'll give it a shot.
|by Anonymous
|reply 194
I hope they wrapped up the Will drama for good. They sort of stretched it out. Still love this show. What Will and Kalinda planned and executed in the courtroom was great! And I can use a little break from Anika.
|by Anonymous
|reply 195
Wendy Scott Carr has quite a bit of junk in her trunk.
|by Anonymous
|reply 196
This ep was great! I don't mind the Will storyline, I wonder what he's really hiding. Flawless performances by everyone, the Amy Sedaris thing was a bit meh but loved the twist at the end.
|by Anonymous
|reply 197
Carrie Preston is *perfect* in this! I agree with the spinoff suggestion.
Also, Amy Sedaris has great chemistry with Alan Cummings, and hope they keep her around, too.
What happened with the weird tutor girl?
|by Anonymous
|reply 198
"Arrest me." Wow.
I'm still wondering if they have the guts to go for it with Kalinda and Alicia. Kalinda would walk through walls (and is capable of it) for Alicia. What's the eventual payoff going to be?
|by Anonymous
|reply 199
Cary Agos naked
|by Anonymous
|reply 200
Good ep. Interesting that Alicia is taking Kalinda's case. I wonder what WIll will do now he can't practice law. Apparently there will be a case that blows up and he feels the need to be there.
|by Anonymous
|reply 201
[quote] AND WHERE IS LISA E.?
Getting her eyebrows re-tattooed.
|by Anonymous
|reply 202
And Jonathan Groff, trying to act straight!
|by Anonymous
|reply 203
Good eppy. Like that Kalinda and Alicia are getting closer again. Unemployed Will and his irritating sisters was more fun than employed Will. Love the fight over being the head of the firm.
|by Anonymous
|reply 204
those ugly sisters are beyond stupid!
couldn't the writers find some thing a bit organic to move the story forward?
stupid plot device!
|by Anonymous
|reply 205
Josh Charles is starting to look like shit.
LOVED Nurse Jackie's Zoe as his sister.
And Donna Brazile should get her own series.
|by Anonymous
|reply 206
This last episode was such a bore.
The only redeeming thing aout this episode was Donna Braizille
|by Anonymous
|reply 207
[quote}The only redeeming thing aout this episode was Donna Braizille
I disagree. She was AWFUL. Stunt casting of people who can't act at its worst.
|by Anonymous
|reply 208
Sorry, I missed something. What is Kalinda's case about?
|by Anonymous
|reply 209
So this weeks was interesting for the possible return to their original house. Gotta wonder if they're trying to get Alicia and hubby back together. The return of the bad guy was just meh for me. He's not as much fun as they think he is. And the "Alicia makes a bigger enemy of David is murky at best." Surprisingly enough, I miss Will in a more active role. This check everything before he can do anything slows things down.
|by Anonymous
|reply 210
Did not enjoy Will in his socks. He's really not very attractive, is he?
|by Anonymous
|reply 211
I can't understand a fucking word Michael J. Fox is saying. I think it's time for him to hang up the saddle.
|by Anonymous
|reply 212
r212, I could understand him.
|by Anonymous
|reply 213
I could understand him too. And I adore him. So... no saddle hanging for me.
And FINALLY Alicia takes a step back toward Kalinda. They better move it before the show gets cancelled. Their relationship was WAY more fun than Alicia and Will.
|by Anonymous
|reply 214
Alicia and Kalinda are seeing each other again!
That was such a lesbian interaction....Alicia expressed her boundaries!
|by Anonymous
|reply 215
I was literally 'awwing' and biting my nails watching Alicia and Kalinda dancing around each other like two ex's cautiously getting together.
I want to see them have angry makeup sex
|by Anonymous
|reply 216
They're gonna do it.
|by Anonymous
|reply 217
At least that hideous character Kaitlin is gone; hope she STAYS gone. Rather an abrupt out-of-nowhere end though - all of a sudden she has a fiance? Wonder if Julianna Margulies - who has a producer credit - didn't like the character/actress?
|by Anonymous
|reply 218
I was SO glad when the Lisa E character wrapped up. Excellent actress, but I totally could NOT buy her and Will having had an affair; he's - 40? in real life and looks much younger; she is 55 or so and looks pretty close her age. I kept waiting for a line about, "we had a great time having an affair in law school, and I always admired you going to law school in your 40's, after a career as a (businesswoman, real estate agent, whatever)" or, "we were lucky that no one complained when he had an affair in college; could have been awkward: you being my teacher."
They just looked WAY ridiculous as a couple.
|by Anonymous
|reply 219
R210 raises an interesting point. > I wonder how many people connected with the show, and/working for CBS, realize that a lot of viewers, myself included, watch the show MAINLY for the episodes where Chris Noth appears. Woooof.
|by Anonymous
|reply 220
R219 they looked about the same age to me. Josh Charles looked like an ugly old sick man even way back in Dead Poets Society. Which raises the question, would The Good Wife be a better show if Meg Ryan were playing Charles' role?
|by Anonymous
|reply 221
Yep, they're getting the news out about Alicia and Kalinda. Better move it along toots.
|by Anonymous
|reply 222
I've never watched this show and have no clue who all is in it. But I flipped for like five minutes last night and there was this young guy on a witness stand who was sort of scruffy, but who looked like a young Perry King. He could have been his son.
|by Anonymous
|reply 223
I adore this show. There isn't a more interesting and well-acted potboiler out there.
|by Anonymous
|reply 224
Agree R224, it's really fun. I can never decide which character I like best or who is the better actor. I can't remember another show I've felt that way about in years. Guess many people felt that way about the Sopranos.
|by Anonymous
|reply 225
I had a hard timing understanding Michael J. Fox too. Some of his lines were dubbed in. But my TV has terrible sound clarity.
|by Anonymous
|reply 226
r223, that was Pete Scanavino. I know him.
|by Anonymous
|reply 227
[214] Good Wife was renewed early for a fourth season.
|by Anonymous
|reply 228
I want a Carey and Zach subplot.
|by Anonymous
|reply 229
Carey always looks 16 years old. And the actor is a total lightweight, giving a "How cute do I look in my sharp suits?" performance every single episode.
Elizabeth Reaser is quite a bland actress but I liked it when her character got off a zinger to Alicia for sleeping with Will.
|by Anonymous
|reply 230
What do you know about him, R227? He's pretty cute.
Anyone else see a Perry King thing going on?
|by Anonymous
|reply 231
Damn, meant to post the link in the Url...
|by Anonymous
|reply 232
Has it returned from its hiatus? Can someone please, please give us a review, or a link to a review - haven't seen review in NYTimes Thank you kindly
|by Anonymous
|reply 233
There was a new episode last night. It revolved a lot around Peter's decision to run for governor and the new character played by Matthew Perry. I think there are two more episodes to wrap up the season.
|by Anonymous
|reply 234
Yes it's back.
Here's a review of last night's episode
|by Anonymous
|reply 235
One thing that bugs me about Peter and the Governor's Storyline is he just won the State's Attorney election. I know the character has been State's Attorney before and would like to move on politically but are Illionians going to elect him in 2012 for a new job after they just elected him 2011 for one?
I would say do your freakin job you told us how much you wanted and what plans you had in that position. Wait on the Governor's job.
|by Anonymous
|reply 236
R231, moody, Pisces, from Colorado, strange taste in women, good kisser, good actor, good sized cock, playful, arrogant, can hold his booze. As far as I know, he's straight but I wouldn't be at all shocked if he experimented.
|by Anonymous
|reply 237
Thank you very much 234. Thanks for the link 235, much appreciated from 233
|by Anonymous
|reply 238
Matthew Perry is playing a sociopath.
Alicia, you in danger girl.
|by Anonymous
|reply 239
Eli Gold having sex with a WOMAN?
And didn't Alan Cumming look awkward getting out of Parker Posey's bed? She's really acting up a storm, trying to make us believe she's sexually interested in him, let alone that they were once married...
|by Anonymous
|reply 240
What was going on with Perry's weird accent? It kept changing, from a weird nasal intonation to his normal speaking manner. And he dyed his hair, all the greys were gone! Loved Peter telling Jackie off. Nice. Too bad she ended up in hospital.
|by Anonymous
|reply 241
Aren't all Pisceans moody?
|by Anonymous
|reply 242
Perry sounds totally off, more than just a weird accent. I was thinking he was either high or so gone from years of drug abuse that his speech is permanently slurred.
|by Anonymous
|reply 243
Unfortunate about Perry's drug abuse, to be sure, but - maybe is just me? - I think he's doing a great job in this part; very good at drama and very good at playing a prick. I was quite surprised; didn't see this performance capable in his work in "Friends" (which character I did really like) or previous comedies.
|by Anonymous
|reply 244
I have had the same reaction to Matthew Perry R244. He's great. He does have a weird speech thing though, as if he's wearing dentures.
|by Anonymous
|reply 245
Ahhhhhhhh, Kalinda and Alicia, drinking together again. Nice.
|by Anonymous
|reply 246
Perry had a great short role on "The West Wing."
|by Anonymous
|reply 247
So the judge lied? Loved Diane in her scenes with him.
|by Anonymous
|reply 248
On Perry playing a villain so effectively: don't actors say the true comics have very dark sides?
|by Anonymous
|reply 249
No the judge did not lie. The other guy withheld evidence.
When the visiting judge was Stepen Root I thought we had a cross-over from "Justified".
|by Anonymous
|reply 250
Is no one commenting on the lesbian sex scene?
|by Anonymous
|reply 251
r251, that scene was so hot, I continue to watch it. I'm pretty surprised that CBS showed that, I mean it was below camera but was obvious from shoulders up that Kalinda was finger-fucking her.
|by Anonymous
|reply 252
The scene was hot and quite clear on what was going on down there. It will probably have part II.
|by Anonymous
|reply 253
I am grateful for that scene but unclear how that was supposed to get Lana to stop stalking her.
|by Anonymous
|reply 254
I'm glad Kalinda never finger-fucked Mamie Gummer.
Doesn't Julianne Nicholson look fabulous? Too bad she's paired up with that nebbish Josh Charles.
The extra playing Damon the tax lawyer was hot.
|by Anonymous
|reply 255
Nice season finale...now I want to hide guns and money behind my drywall.
|by Anonymous
|reply 256
So who is Kalinda's husband then? Is it Blake? Any one knows? Any spoilers for season 4? ARe they filming it now? I heard it's due to return in the fall, anyone knows anything about that? TIA
|by Anonymous
|reply 258
Kalinda's husband is a bad bad man. And she gonna face off with him.
|by Anonymous
|reply 259
This show is only interesting when it focuses on Kalinda. She shoukd be the main character.
|by Anonymous
|reply 260
R260, excellent point. Probably never happen, alas, especially with Julianna Marguelies having a producer credit.
To the poster who mentioned Julianne Nicholson: I agree she looked fab, and I think she's grown a lot as an actress since Law&Order Criminal Intent. Like the longer hair better, too.
|by Anonymous
|reply 261
Great season finale. So much to look forward to. Kalinda is hot!
|by Anonymous
|reply 262
A review of the "The Good Wife" season finale coming up just as soon as I pick out the right sledgehammer...
It's practically a TV critic cliché (and one I've used a time or three) by this point to say that "The Good Wife" blends the best of what you can do with a network drama (accessible storytelling, familiar faces) and what you can do with one on cable (moral ambiguity, more long-term plotting). The show's season 3 finale, "The Dream Team," exemplified all of that.
It brought back two of the show's best individual rival attorneys â Michael J. Fox's shameless Louis Canning and Martha Plimpton's devious Patti Nyholm â and let them team up in an attack on Lockhart Gardner. It was pure pleasure to watch Fox and Plimpton working side by side, and even though we're supposed to be rooting for Alicia, Diane and Will, it's hard not to enjoy the bad guys running such a successful con (distracting Lockhart Gardner with a nuisance suit while they were busy poaching one of the firm's biggest clients) and putting our heroes into a very tenuous position going into next season.
At the same time, the finale continued to tug at the messy thread involving Kalinda's IRS problem, and the past she's kept hidden, which includes a husband so dangerous she waits for him with a loaded gun under her seat. (And that's only after she decides she likes her current life enough to not just run away from it like she presumably ran away from this guy.) And it continued to do a bang-up job dealing with the messy realities of Alicia's relationship with Peter (who puts his concern for Alicia's well-being ahead of his political ambitions by going on record about their separation), with her hated mother-in-law (Alicia is the only one who can see that the stroke took more out of Jackie than it seemed at first), and with Will (who takes a very different, much more awkward elevator ride with Alicia than they had at the end of last season).
It was among the best hours of "The Good Wife" this season: surprising without feeling manipulative, funny (particularly Patti and Andrew Wiley approaching Kalinda with The Double Strollers of Doom) without the comedy feeling shoehorned, and hitting the right emotional notes for Alicia, Kalinda and Peter.
At the same time, "The Dream Team" was also a reminder of the thing that will always clearly separate "The Good Wife" from its cable counterparts. Where they only have to produce 13 episodes a year (or fewer, in some cases), "The Good Wife" still operates on the traditional network model of 22 per season. On the one hand, if you love "The Good Wife," you get more "Good Wife." On the other, the cable model shows that less can often be more: that your story arcs are tighter and that you don't have to pad things out just to fill time and make sure certain events don't happen until the finale.
A lot happened this season on "The Good Wife," and while some of it was terrific, other parts were forgettable. In the finale, for instance, Alicia spent her first concentrated time with her kids in what felt like forever. And while that relationship is a huge part of the show â and a huge part of the tug Alicia still feels towards Peter â and while the kids' stories can sometimes be interesting, I realized when watching them in the finale how little I had missed them. And though Louis and Patti are always a ton of fun when they're around, there are many other Lockhart Gardner cases of the week that tend to drag.
And because Kalinda's backstory â and the trouble she's frequently in with various ex-lovers and/or rivals â is so long and complicated, I find I sometimes lose track of it, especially since these 22 episodes aired over the course of seven months, with gaps in between batches of episodes.
It was a good season overall, and an excellent finale. Every now and then, though, I wonder what this show would be like if Robert and Michelle King were told, "Okay, you're just making 13 episodes, and we want you to go full-speed ahead with them."
|by Anonymous
|reply 263
>>>It brought back two of the show's best individual rival attorneys — Michael J. Fox's shameless Louis Canning and Martha Plimpton's devious Patti Nyholm — and let them team up in an attack on Lockhart Gardner. It was pure pleasure to watch Fox and Plimpton working side by side
No it wasn't. That was a waste of time. I would rather they shown a little bit more about Kalinda's past or anything other than the Fox/Plimpton waste of time garbage
|by Anonymous
|reply 264
Michael J. Fox is irritating to watch. Martha Plimpton looks too much like Amy Sedaris (who I'd rather have seen returned).
|by Anonymous
|reply 265
Does anything think Kalinda and Alicia might ever have sex?
|by Anonymous
|reply 266
Some of us things think it a lot.
|by Anonymous
|reply 267
Ha!. Anyone*
Does ANYONE think Kalinda and Alicia might have sex?
|by Anonymous
|reply 268
Won't ever happen, r268.
|by Anonymous
|reply 269
But there will be lots of tease and subtext.
Which is also fun.
|by Anonymous
|reply 270
I wonder of the two of them will have sex, but I dont care all that much.
It would be disappointing to see Kalina end up with a man. That has been done to death. Far more interesting to see her set up shop with a female character.
|by Anonymous
|reply 271
Nathan Lane, Maura Tierney and Kristen Chenoweth are all joining TGW in recurring roles next season. British actor Marc Warren has been cast as Nick, Kalinda's psycho ex husband.
Chenoweth will play a snooping reporter out to get dirt on Peter Florrick. I'd love it if she ended up in bed with the son Zach and Alicia bursts in and yells "Not with MY son!" And then Kristen's character is found dead at the bottom of a stairway and it becomes a big ol' whodunnit.
|by Anonymous
|reply 272
That's interesting, I was just watching him in "Band of Brothers"...I'm surprised he is 45. Looks younger.
|by Anonymous
|reply 273
Looking forward to the season premiere on Sunday.
|by Anonymous
|reply 274
Tonight is the 1st show...we left Kalinda, with a gun, waiting for her husband to return....
|by Anonymous
|reply 275
I thought it was a strong opener. I like all of the political intrigue with Peter and the police. Ari is great, as usual. I love that David Lee is staying with the firm and how he announced it. I still find Alicia's kids annoying.
|by Anonymous
|reply 276
Kalinda fucking a man -- ugh.
|by Anonymous
|reply 277
Couldn't sleep last night thinking about Kalinda in her bustier... We definitely need more of that
|by Anonymous
|reply 278
Between The Race, Good Wife & The Mentalist, Sunday has become a great night for TV.
Oh my God, I'm old.
|by Anonymous
|reply 279
Disappointed in Kalinda...but it was a strong opening to the season.
What did people think of Nathan Lane?
|by Anonymous
|reply 280
I liked that Nathan Lane was low-key, for a change.
|by Anonymous
|reply 281
Of course, Kalinda's not ending up with the ex-husband.
It would be horribly predictable for her to end up with a man, however.
|by Anonymous
|reply 282
and Stockard Channing is joining this season and will play Alicia's mother, which is sort of brilliant casting if you ask me. And I pray to god she bitch slaps Kalinda.
|by Anonymous
|reply 283
Malinda's ex and Carey will have sex. Somebody please do SOMETHING with Margulies's hair. It's distracting. It doesn't have to look great just real.
How can they make the kids less annoying? I like the story line with Zack and the popo. And Peters obvious conflict with police coming up.
Is the mother-in-law dead yet?
|by Anonymous
|reply 284
R284, I forgot about crazy Jackie, which means this must be a good season so far. I always love watching her and Alicia go at it. How about the scene with the ice cream cone last night?!
|by Anonymous
|reply 285
Jackie's back...and driving Alan Cuming crazy. hahahahaha
|by Anonymous
|reply 286
No one's watching?
|by Anonymous
|reply 287
Not many of us, apparently. There's a newer GW thread here:
|by Anonymous
|reply 288


text:
Man sentenced for fatal Plainfield bank robbery
An Indianapolis man who pleaded guilty to bank robbery in which an accomplice was fatally shot by the FBI has been sentenced to 10.5 years in prison.
U.S. District Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson sentenced 24-year-old Demetrius Worley on Thursday in the May robbery of the State Bank of Lizton in Plainfield, 15 miles west of Indianapolis. FBI agents fatally shot 43-year-old William McKnight of Indianapolis after he refused to comply with an order to drop his weapon.
U.S. Attorney Joe Hogsett says FBI agents were following their vehicle before the bank robbery because the men were suspects in an Indianapolis bank robbery. Hogsett says $6,900 taken from the bank was found in a nearby neighborhood.
Worley was also ordered to serve five years of federally-supervised release after he is released.
(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)


text:
My Morning Jacket
I had written this record off as too easy. Lead singer/songwriter Jim James's heart-o'-gold voice so expertly mimics Neil Young's -- right down to that constant sense of aching that hovers under the surface of every single nasally drawl Young spouts -- that I wanted to throw it aside in disgust and extreme mockery, as I do with most Young product. (I know, let the whipping begin.) But damn this record; I keep playing bits of it often. Helpless, helpless, helpless indeed.
The album peaks early, with the first four songs working best together, almost mustering up a dense magic akin to recent Flaming Lips or Mercury Rev releases: nasal tenor-boy vocals over lush, orchestral textures, but in this case they're more imbued with a decidedly country-and-western flavor. The third track, "The Way That He Sings," sounds like a bad Enya-penned Irish Spring television commercial or maybe one of those new world order Global Bank ads, but I like it anyway (against my better judgment). By the time "Death Is the Easy Way" comes on with its "'Cause nothin' gets you high/You're poor the day you die/And alcohol only makes you tired" lines, a listener is prone to be easily swept away, at least until that Youngian harmonica kicks in and ruins it all to hell. Expecting to fly, the album crashes from here on out.
I initially was willing to go the whole distance with this record, but oh, the damage done. When the song "Hopefully" arrives and builds to its full Harvest Moon stride, draped in a way-too-dramatic church-hall-corridor reverb, James leads his crazy horses through a series of country-fried Parsons/Young-inspired numbers that begs the question: Why? My world is already free, and I rock quite a bit, thank you. It's too bad, for there are some haunting and memorable songs here for sure, but where does an influence end and straight-up cribbing begin?
Long may you run, Morning Star... far, far away. If you do choose to come back across the water, please leave Cortez down by the river.
Get the Things to Do Newsletter
Find out about upcoming events and special offers happening in South Florida.
Recommended for You
Powered by SailThru
Upcoming Events
The Weeknd - Starboy: Legend of the Fall 2017 World Tour
TicketsTue., Oct. 24, 7:30pm
LCD Soundsystem
TicketsWed., Oct. 25, 7:30pm
Toad the Wet Sprocket
TicketsWed., Oct. 25, 7:30pm
"An Evening With Nestor Torres"
TicketsSat., Oct. 7, 8:00pmpowered by goldstar
Sponsor Content


text:
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated Sunday in Sanaa, demanding the execution of Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Saleh and protesting against the law granting him immunity. The Yemeni Parliament on Saturday granted to Saleh "total immunity against any legal or judicial action."
It also endorsed the candidacy of Vice President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi in the presidential election, scheduled Feb. 21 in the country, which in the past year was rocked by unrest that left hundreds dead. Hadi is the only candidate for a two-year interim term.
"No immunity at the expense of our blood," read a banner brandished by the demonstrators, who tried to head to the U.S. embassy in Sanaa before being stopped by security forces .
The parliament amended the bill granting immunity to Saleh and his aides, based on an agreement signed to end the internal crisis. Under the new law, aides of Saleh, in power for 33 years and accused by protesters of corruption and nepotism, enjoy immunity "for politically motivated acts, performed in the exercise of their official duties." However, immunity "does not apply to terrorist acts."
The UN envoy to Yemen, Jamal Benomar, criticized Saturday night that law, emphasizing the right of "victims" to hold Saleh regime accountable. "The law was amended (...) but remains below our expectations. The UN has a principled stand against this kind of absolute immunity," he said during a press conference.
He called to enact "a law on justice and reconciliation" that would allow "victims to claim compensation."
[1] http://www.albawaba.com


text:
Famous Footwear
They would crawl on their hands and knees through the desert for a taste of a Christian Louboutin mule. They'd conceivably kill their own sisters over the last pair of Prada loafers, size 38. Sometimes you'll even see them, pale and twitchy, hanging around Payless, looking for the cheapest of fixes. A month without Manolos is like...well, detox hell. Shoe junkies like us relish the smell of new leather, the click of stiletto heels, the feeling of toes crushed into an acutely pointy pump. Even when we're not buying, just being around beautiful footwear is a pleasant proposition. So what if we could gratify our shallow needs and benefit orphans in one fell swoop? Celebrity Shoes for Orphans, a traveling exhibit that stops in Dallas this weekend, has engineered the perfect event. Though these 30 pairs of autographed shoes won't hit eBay until September, Valley View Mall patrons can get a sneak preview of Sarah Jessica Parker's strappy sandals, Julianne Moore's high-top Chucks, Lara Flynn Boyle's pointe shoes and more. Proceeds from the auctions will benefit Shoes for Orphan Souls, which distributes shoes to needy children around the world. Hopefully the shoes will be under glass: We doubt our self-control. Coo over these fame-laden shoes at Valley View Mall from July 31 through August 3. Visit www.celebrityshoesfororphans.org. --Michelle Martinez
In Rapture
Art plus music equals Euforia for Diaz, Simmons
Think back to the last time you had a feeling of happiness and well-being. Has it really been that long? Your eyes must be bored with sitcoms, and your ears must be rejecting radio. Never fear, there's still entertainment worthy enough to be called art, and we know where it is: South Side on Lamar this Saturday night. Between Rolando Diaz's oiled brushstrokes gracing a 30-by-40 canvas and Seth Simmons' intricate compositions floating from his baby grand, this dynamic duo is out to create a sight-and-sound state of euphoria. They'd just rather spell it Euforia. We're guessing true artists like to do that sort of thing. They also like to sell CDs and sign commemorative posters following their performances. If you find yourself in awe of Diaz's painting, there's a chance to take it home when it's auctioned off at the end of the evening. Tickets are two for the price of one online or $20 at the door. Visit www.euforialive.com or call 972-897-5734. --Desirée Henry
Home Away From Home
MAC members return to the nest for inspiration
Although it sounds more like a tennis tournament than an art exhibition, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary is presenting its ninth annual Members Invitational, opening August 2 with a reception from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., featuring works based on the theme of "relationship to home." Themes for prior invitationals have included the letter W and the color blue. This year's exhibition will display the works of visual artists in the three MAC galleries; performance art and literary readings will be presented in the Black Box Theater. The invitation to submit only goes out to artist members--a special category of MAC donor--but if last year's 200 entries are any indication, there should be no shortage of art for the perusing. The exhibit, which is titled City Views, runs through August 31. Call 214-953-1212. --Mark Donald
Between the Lines
Get out your checkbook and give a good cause a boost when the 10th annual Dallas Reads-sponsored Celebrate Literacy dinner and auction are held July 31 at the Omni Mandalay in Las Colinas. Former Cowboy star Daryl Johnston will be on hand to emcee, and Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind athlete to reach the summit of Mount Everest, will be the keynote speaker. The auction begins at 6:30 p.m.; dinner is at 7:30 p.m. Call 214-821-7323. --Carlton Stowers
Get the Things to Do Newsletter
Sign up for our weekly guide to events in Dallas, and never be bored again. With suggestions for every day of the week, our recommendations will keep you busy on any budget.
Popular Stories
Upcoming Events
Quinn XCII
TicketsTue., Oct. 24, 7:00pm
Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie
TicketsTue., Oct. 24, 8:00pm
Dallas Mavericks vs. Memphis Grizzlies
TicketsWed., Oct. 25, 7:30pm
PARKING: American Airlines Center - Dallas Mavericks v Memphis
TicketsWed., Oct. 25, 7:30pm
Sponsor Content