Reality takes a vacation as the CBS All Access procedural returns.
Lawyers sheltered in place in the offices of Reddick, Boseman, & Lockhart.
Adrian (Delroy Lindo) sipped his whiskey and pondered the void.
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“I used to think that something would save us,” he said.
“Now, I don’t see anything.”
Lucca (Cush Jumbo) dropped acid toward a different conclusion: “The end times are beautiful.”
The apocalypse was averted long enough for this CBS All Access wonder show to get to season 4.
But Thursday’s mindbending premiere launchesThe Good Fighttoward an uncertain future.
(Important to note that CBS All Access iscurrently offering one month free.)
Showrunners Robert and Michelle King are web link mainstreamers with a taste for the avant-garde.
Whether you’re aGood Fightfan or a newcomer, you’ll get something magic from the premiere.
I’ll respectfullyspoilthe concept right now.
The premiereimagines another world where Hillary Clinton won.
The upside-down is right-side up, Diane discovers.
Elizabeth Warren sits for a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court.
The wealthy are getting the tax they deserve.
Nobody’s ever heard of anyone or anything called “The Mooch.”
The twist comes fast and furious.
whose record of Democratic Party support is makes him a D.C. bigwig, too.
Allegations against him are hushed up with nasty conjecture about past-their-prime actresses.
#MeToo and the Women’s March never happened.
Matt Lauer and Charlie Rose are still smiling on NBC and CBS mornings.
There’s a plot thing happening that is surprisingly tense given the dream logic involved.
And the larger conversation the premiere is engaging in opens up all sorts of arguments and refutations.
The counterfactual might be personal.The Good Fightwas developed in a lost historical moment when Clinton’s victory looked assured.
The series has a cockeyed political perspective, flooding nefarious Democratic operatives alongside its Trumpling dunce-caps.
At one point in the premiere, I thought this whole season would take place in the alternate universe.
It’s a tantalizing offer: infinite resources for justice!
The premiere sets the tone in an unexpected way.
Trump isn’t gone fromThe Good Fight, but the focus is shifting.
You could say the show’s changing majors from poli-sci to econ.
I’m more intrigued to see howGood Fightapproaches the uber-rich in its other scattered storylines.
Lucca befriends a wealthy lifestyle magnate whose lonely-at-the-top private jet existence is both alluring and off-putting.
“I wanna sue!”
“I wanna Gawker these a–holes off the stage!”
These early episodes are finding their footing.
Larroquette’s an unexpectedly friendly presence, though his character’s Zen koans feel parodic in the wrong direction.
Boatman’s usually been a sharp comedic foil.
This year lets him shade new depth into his character: Whimsical virtue, and encompassing fear.
The Kings are testing their own boundaries in season 4.
Will the current health crisis affectThe Good Fight’s future?
Of course, that supposes thatThe Good Fight’s status is sustainable.
“Come the next recession, what’s the first thing people drop?”
one character says in the new season.
Is the answer “everything but Netflix”?
I’m dancing around something: Is this the end ofThe Good Fight?
She believes in the system, the social foundation that requires everyone to follow the rules.
“If it doesn’t work that way, then the country breaks down,” she says quietly.
“It’s over.
We’re done.”
Grade: B+
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