Warning: This article contains spoilers from the season 4 finale ofThe Good Fight.
ROBERT KING:We had shot four days of episode 8.
Those were three scenes taken from episode 8.
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In fact, if you look closely, the wardrobe doesn’t match [Laughs].
Which we just lived with because we thought it was more resonant for what the season was with that.
MICHELLE KING:This was the benefit of being streaming that you have some flexibility on episode length.
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It would’ve been far more difficult if it were on a internet show.
MICHELLE:Yeah, ironic.
ROBERT:We didn’t intentionally do that.
MICHELLE:I didn’t even know they were doing a documentary when we started talking about the episode.
Was there any pushback?
MICHELLE:The Powers That Be were fine.
We’re not idiots.
And we were fine.
We had to be very careful.
Originally, there was a scene where we had a lip reader interpret what was going on.
ROBERT:[Laughs] I think you’re right!
We’ve done that a few times.
MICHELLE:I take exception to the comic book owner.
I assume he just changed positions.
ROBERT:Yeah, there’s sometimes you just go, “This is just too perfect.
We have to go with it.”
MICHELLE:But we’re very typically very, very aware.
MICHELLE:Yeah, and we almost never do.
That one got past us.
ROBERT:We had a lot of conversations about that in the writers room.
But is that even the point?
Liz and company do go down quite a long rabbit hole.
How much of that episode is based on fact versus things you came up with?
MICHELLE:Very much more on fact than is comfortable.
ROBERT:The strangest things are fact.
MICHELLE:The Donald Barr book [Space Relations] is fact.
But4chan being the first one to mention that Epstein is deadis true.
Even things that are fictions, which is the final reveal, are based on Epstein’s desire.
He was looking for ways to do exactly what is revealed at the very end.
ROBERT:It’s a comment on a lot of rich people.
MICHELLE:And a lot of beautiful young women.
This case does feel like it’s built forThe Good Fight.
You know, the"Pee pee tape" in the second seasonand the Melania divorce in the third?
They’re just these episodes that are kind of standalones, “Oh my god.”
Those, to me, are the outrages that play into what the season is about.
In the past, you’ve talked about notletting theme drive plot.
MICHELLE:The latter.
ROBERT:We were in the writers room doing something about tort reform [Laughs].
We’re putting ourselves to sleep even pursuing this," even though it was a meaningful episode.
So we threw it out and [were] going around the room, “What interests people?”
MICHELLE:That’s a question we’re sort of asking ourselves.
[We’ll] have to see what everybody’s reactions are to a second wave.
Also, it probably will depend on who’s president come January.
We’ll be finishing this season, but in a new world.
How has that affected your plan for season 5?
MICHELLE:You know, it’s a little too early to say.
ROBERT:But I would say we’d have to address Julius Cain.
Given how the show can play with reality, it doesn’t seem that unusual.
The Good Fightwas renewed for a fifth season on CBS All Access.
