Julianna Margulies, who plays the role of Alicia, told E! On tonight’s episode, season 7 begins with Alicia (Julianna Margulies) attempting to revive her struggling law career by representing arrestees seeking release on bail in bond court.
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The reliably excellent CBS drama suffered a few creative missteps last season-ahem, Kalinda, ahem.
I guess it’s officially time to start thinking of The Good Wife as The Alicia Florrick Show. Inside the Alicia-Kalinda conspiracy.].
Mr. King clarified to EW that indeed, Alicia’s alcoholism will be tackled on Season 7. Now that the shiny new ones are here and spinning, the circus act is all the better for it.
After a quick “cleaning up the streets of Cook County” montage, Alicia finds herself working as a bar attorney in bond court. After starting her own firm and finding success as a litigator alongside her colleagues Diane Lockhart and Cary Agos, Peter’s trusted advisor, Eli Gold, convinces Alicia to run for State’s Attorney, the position once infamously held by her husband. Judge Chakowsky ignores Alicia in the hectic courtroom and doesn’t assign her any cases. The second twist? The mother, who put Post-it notes on everything she owned to designate whom the item should belong to didn’t use anything to secure the notes. Diane and David Lee brought in the housekeeper and try to get the $8 Million painting awarded to her. The judge is about to give the painting to the housekeeper, but Quinn Lucca saves the day.
Aside from the addition of Martindale, the most exciting new face is that of actress Cush Jumbo, Alicia’s early ally in bond court. Of course, the show has always belonged to Alicia Florrick.
This was genuinely the most shocking moment of the episode, although maybe not if you’ve always thought that Peter Florrick is a awful person. Also, Peter brings in national strategist Ruth Eastman (Margo Martindale) to help with his presidential campaign, and creates an interesting dynamic with Eli (Alan Cumming) in the process.
But… they were buddies! Alicia visits Eli at his house and tries to talk to him he’s not doing well – he is a hot mess and doesn’t look like he has taken a shower or left his house since Peter replaced him. Are you glad our favorite legal teams are back?
“I see a political operative who has a very inflated sense of self”, Peter yells back. It is pretty crappy for Peter to fire Eli after all they’ve been through together, and Peter can’t deny how important Eli’s been in getting him out of jail and into the governor’s office.
Alicia is ready to accept her new Burn Notice-esque lifestyle. Is that going to make them work really well together? This time around, it’s because of Alicia’s rehabilitation, but we’ll get to that in a bit.
– I really liked the silhouetted shot of Alicia and Peter talking. “I’m not quite sure about that yet”. With Alicia back in court, the character is felt more active than she has in awhile.
Poor Cary Agos got lost in the shuffle when Alicia got distracted with her state’s attorney campaign and then her and Cary’s firm somehow merged with their old firm. Diane, David and the cartoonish Howard Lyman preside, along with a number of older partners.
Meanwhile, Cary is not happy with the status quo at his firm, which looks more like Lockhart-Gardner (except no Will, RIP). Regardless of whether or not you may think so, this is far from the first time that we had seen the show touch on this subject. “We need to change”.
Who knew Grace could be the comic relief?
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When the new season opens, we quickly find out that Alicia said no to Canning’s offer because she’s looking forward to working for herself. Alicia realizes that it wasn’t a coincidence that she got the Smulder case and had to go up against Diane and David Lee – Canning sent the case to her, it wasn’t from her website. She says no repeatedly, but when they wind up at the same bar in the final scene, she reluctantly agrees that he can keep sending her cases.
