This week’s episode took us to a place we’ve always wanted to go—inside the mind of Elsbeth Tascioni. So. Much. Epic. And clowns, and kittens, and penguins.
Carrie Preston as Elsbeth is always incredible and, if you’re like me, you make a special point to tune in to the show live when she’s making an appearance. I mentioned last week that The Good Wife is on a feminist mission, and we definitely saw more of that this week. Alicia’s client was suing, as she believed she was fired from her job as CEO for being a woman (a tough-as-nails woman). But this episode also offers an interesting commentary on learning differences. We see how someone like Elsbeth, under other circumstances, might be written off as crazy or, simply, as someone suffering from ADD. But on The Good Wife she’s brilliant, and a formidable opponent in the courtroom. This is important, and I love the message here.
The sexism lawsuit didn’t quite reel me in, although I did love watching Alicia and Elsbeth go at it in that very quiet way (nice move, bringing those distracting pamphlets, Alicia). The other issues of the episode were the malware ransom catastrophe, and Finn-gate. Here’s the problem with the ransom storyline—which was mostly fun. I think we all know Diane would never, ever, ever in the history of everdom have clicked on that questionable link. This woman is so smart and calculating and—most importantly—suspicious. That move was out of character for her, but clearly, she had to be the one to click it, so that the code could go to her old Lockhart/Gardner e-mail address. And that needed to happen so that we could have this new, interesting storyline where Diane refuses to hand over the lease, and maybe Florrick/Agos/Lockhart makes an epic move?!
This also needed to happen so we could see David Lee, and hear him say “when monkeys fly out of my butt.” #ThatWasCrass
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