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'The Good Wife' Season 3, Episode 10 Recap (VIDEO)
by Chris Harnick, posted Dec 5th 2011 12:05AM
['The Good Wife' - 'Parenting Made Easy']I'm a sucker for Julianna Maruglies walking down hallways in tears.
What does that mean? A few things first:
Michael J. Fox, Jennifer Carpenter and John Michael Higgins (he was freed from 'Happily Divorced' for a hot second!) all sat around in a room with Alicia for much of the episode. MJF turned in an understated performance, in a good way. Carpenter was pretty convincing as a uber Christian professor trying to get her job back and a far cry from potty-mouthed Deb Morgan. Quite refreshing. JMH fit the role of greedy arbitrator nicely.
For the first time in a while, the case of the week wasn't overly complicated, nor did it have to contend with an action-packed installment of the Eli Gold show. It had space to grow. It wasn't the most compelling, but that's OK.
MJF's Louis Canning is quite the character. Battling Alicia one minute, rushing her around town looking for Grace the next, then sneaking into her bag. He's kind of amazing.
The meat of the episode: Grace goes "missing." And by "missing" I mean she butt-dialed Alicia 12 times and she went to a seedy part of Chicago to get baptized. Normal kid stuff. From the commercials and the start of 'The Good Wife' (eerie dream alert!) I was expecting the Grace story to be a very large portion of the episode. I believe it lasted no about 20 minutes. Alicias frantic behavior wasn't out of left field. She's been worried about her kids and what her fling with Will has been doing to her home life for the majority of the season. That's what makes 'The Good Wife' so great. Any other show on broadcast TV would have just made Alicia worried for this episode and this episode only. With 'TGW' there has been a build up, a slow, sometimes painful, build up. It was worth it. Seeing Alicia throw that negligee in anger/guilt/horror was so incredibly powerful.
Goodbye, Will. Their break-up will irk some, but for me, I'm ready for the next chapter. There goes Alicia walking down the hall in tears, this time my heart didn't break (that much), but I did watch twice ... as of publish time. I'm kind of excited. What's next on 'The Good Wife'? The investigation into Will isn't going anywhere and it's beyond time for Alicia and Kalinda to knock back some tequila shots. When Grace asked if she wanted to come in so Alicia could thank her I wanted to scream "Yes!" Hugs and tequila, soon. Please?
Now that the Will and Alicia stuff has cooled (at least I think it has), I'm very, very, very ready for Diane to get some time to shine. Christine Baranski isn't given very much to do as Diane Lockhart, despite easily being one of the best actresses on TV right now. However, with what she does get, she knocks it out of the park with ease. Eli pep talks, Will consoling, broach-wearing, etc. She's a master of it all. Viva Diane/Christine Baranski!
Gasp count: 2.
Some other things:
* Alicia's sassy head til at Louis Canning will never stop being perfect.
* I've made it no secret that Grace is my least favorite character, especially on her own dancing with her tutor or talking about religion. But put Alicia in a scene with her? So moving.
Did you like the episode? Do you wish Grace stayed missing? The end of Alicia/Will -- yay or nay? Tell me below!
'The Good Wife' airs Sundays, 9PM ET on CBS
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