Product Description
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The Good Wife is a female-driven drama about a politician's wife
who pursues her own career as a defense attorney after her
husband is sent to jail on charges of political corruption.
Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) will not only have to deal
with her career but also with keeping her family together by
providing a stable home for her two children.
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The Good Wife is a compelling drama about Alicia Florrick
(Julianna Margulies), a strong, articulate woman whose life has
been turned upside down by the actions of her husband Peter
Florrick (Chris Noth), a state's attorney who's been disgraced by
a sex scandal and imprisoned for abusing his position in office.
The series begins with a press conference in which Peter
apologizes for his personal indiscretions and denies any
professional wrongdoing, but the focus of this series is all on
Alicia--how she endures the moment in front of the press, the
personal impact of the experience just after the cameras are
turned off, and how that instant in time will affect every aspect
of her life from that moment on. A middle-aged woman accustomed
to charity events and luxury in the suburbs, Alicia is suddenly
forced to abandon her old life, move to an apartment in the city,
and reenter the workforce as a junior associate in a local law
firm in order to support herself and her two teenage children.
Add in the extra baggage of the very public sex scandal,
competition from a young and highly ambitious twentysomething
lawyer (Matt Czuchry) at the firm, and a coworker (Archie
Panjabi) whom her husband once fired, and things become really
tricky for Alicia. The story is about much more than Alicia's
reentry into the courtroom; it's about how everything in her life
has changed and how every decision she makes impacts her future.
Excellent writing and the powerful performances of Margulies and
her costars make this series absolutely captivating. The blend of
personal drama, courtroom action, sexual indiscretion, family
dynamics, and political scandal is perfectly balanced and, as in
real life, everything is complexly interwoven. The most
compelling thing about the series is Margulies herself: she is
completely believable as Alicia Florrick--everything she feels
and thinks comes across as totally real to viewers, sometimes
without even one word of dialogue, and viewers can't help but
relate to everything she's going through and wonder what they
might do in a similar situation. Viewers struggle right along
with Alicia as she oscillates between self-confidence and
self-doubt, resolve and vulnerability, hatred for her husband's
infidelity and an inexplicable resilient love for him, even in
the face of her renewed attraction to her former law school
classmate and now-boss Will (Josh Charles). Viewers share in her
determination to remain strong and somehow balance the demands of
work and family. Panjabi is commanding in her breakout role as
Kalinda, an extremely pragmatic investigator who regularly defies
convention and will go to almost any length to get the
information she needs, and every interaction between Alicia and
Kalinda is simply electric. Christine Baranski is also stellar in
her role as Diane Lockhart, a firm partner who sees Alicia both
as someone to mentor and as a personal threat.
Besides the 23-episode season, this six-disc set contains quite
a few deleted scenes (they get longer as the season progresses)
and special features that include on-air promos and a discussion
of some of the real-life scandals that caused the writers to
ponder the wronged wife's point of view. The
hour-and-15-minute-long "Education of Alicia Florrick: Making
Season One" features cocreators/writers/executive producers
Robert King and Michelle King and executive producer David W.
Zucker, along with many of the actors and other important
production crew members. They discuss the making of the pilot,
location work, casting, costuming, photographic vision, and the
show's groundbreaking point of view (they also offer a hint about
the focus of the second season). Optional commentaries are
available for several episodes and feature Robert King, Michelle
King, Zucker, and executive producer Brooke Kennedy. --Tami
Horiuchi