TV #25 of 2021:The Good Fight, season 4I want to acknowledge up-front that this latest run of the st
TV #25 of 2021:The Good Fight, season 4I want to acknowledge up-front that this latest run of the streaming Good Wife spinoff had its production cut short by the coronavirus outbreak, losing the final few episodes the writers must surely have expected they’d be able to use to wrap up various plotlines. As released, everything simply ends with no particular closure, which is all the more galling given the subsequent announcements from original cast members Cush Jumbo and Delroy Lindo that they are leaving the show. Each actor hopes to return for a proper departure, schedules permitting, but these external issues all contribute to a feeling that the creative vision for this year has not been delivered faithfully.Even setting aside the matter of completeness, however, this is a pretty rough exhibit of a series that has utterly lost its way. The main appeal of this title had always been its laser focus on (relatively comfortable, professional, middle-class) life in Trumpian America, and the generic ‘Memo 618’ conspiracy is bizarrely divorced both from that and from reality. The story of a secret society of powerful men forcing judges to drop cases against them plays out like a bad John Grisham thriller, simultaneously too hokey to take seriously — or believe that the characters would — and too unrelated to Trump’s specific brand of corruption to bear much thematic weight. It also relies at several points on an unintentionally hilarious misunderstanding of how computers work, which is a sad drift for a franchise that used to have its finger on the pulse of cutting-edge technology.At its worst this program is still generally okay from scene to scene, although the episode where the protagonists knowingly adopt transphobic arguments to win a court case is despicable throughout. And there are occasional flashes of brilliance that suggest a revival isn’t impossible, especially since every season of The Good Fight seems to reinvent itself anyway. But overall, this is nowhere near the prestige drama that it or its forbear could once claim.[Content warning for racism, pedophilia, suicide, and depiction of genitalia.]★★☆☆☆Find me on Patreon | Goodreads | Blog | Twitter -- source link
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