Yea, it's getting really stupid. It seems they have nothing for Diane to do . I like the trump stuff in regards to Julius/Geoffrey. But the angle with Diane/Kurt sucks.
Yeah, being unabashedly Trump centric and amping up the surrealism of living under the Trump administration really works for me as well. But then again, I was one of those who really liked the politics subplots in The Good Wife.I don't agree with you guys at all—Trump, semi-ironically, feels like what this show needed. Focusing on him is what saved the show in season 2 (I enjoyed the first season well enough, but I think most will agree Bernie Madoff-esque plot wasn't working).
Oh, Roy Cohn was the devil. I don't know any good long form podcast on him, but this is a neat 26 minutes that is based on an Esquire profile. It kinda only gets into some of the basics of what he did, but it paints a rather vivid portrait of him as a person.Separately, I apparently need to educate myself more on Roy Cohn. I knew he was Trump's lawyer and did some shady stuff, but not much else? Any good podcast episodes on the subject I can listen to? (Needs to be audio.)
Oh, Roy Cohn was the devil. I don't know any good long form podcast on him, but this is a neat 26 minutes that is based on an Esquire profile. It kinda only gets into some of the basics of what he did, but it paints a rather vivid portrait of him as a person.
I feel the same. They're fun to watch and informative but we don't need them in every episode.Sheen was pretty great. Still not feeling the cartoon interludes. Feels like it throws the show off it's pace.
no idea wtf they are thinking with michael sheen's character
the voice, the mannerisms, the behavior
ridiculous and distracting
Is really the same for the firm politics and cases they take tend to be fun while Diane stuff can be annoyingAll the stuff in the firm and the court room works (Sheen shenanigans aside) but they have no idea what to do with Diane and the political aspects often feel forced.
They want to distract you from the fact that they don't know what to do with the show after the first season.
It's funny because it's true. He's like the Good Wife's most ridiculous characters amped up, then fused together. He's a despicable character, but it's great that they're letting Maia grow because of him.Michael Sheen feels like a character from Boston Legal that ended up in wrong show
Surely a lawyer can find a better path of resistance than making troll farms...
They want to distract you from the fact that they don't know what to do with the show after the first season.
There was only ever one before this season. :P
Perfection.Look, I get that we're not going to agree about the Trump focus or Michael Sheen being awesome. So to all my detractors:
Really? lol
It just bothers me a lot because it's such a toothless conclusion to the whole "Diane needs to fight back" arc. Like... when the system is broken, you play by the new broken rules--that's the conclusion The Good Fight came to and it's awful.No, that's the point—all the lawyerly stuff has already been tried. Trump is immune. A new tactic was needed.
I don't know that a counter troll farm is as original an idea as the show made it out to be, but I found it believable enough.
All this time I was really hoping for some kind of higher meaning, or twist or something, but this last episode has really cemented that "fighting the good fight" just means playing by the opponent's rules. It idealises a sort of naive resistance that will only ever achieve convenient victories. TGF has twisted "resistance" into a hobby.
I love this momentLook, I get that we're not going to agree about the Trump focus or Michael Sheen being awesome. So to all my detractors:
I love this moment
You should have added the middle finger she got
Yea trump stuff + firm stuff is ok.Is really the same for the firm politics and cases they take tend to be fun while Diane stuff can be annoying
It's not even a trump thing I don't think because I like it when it has to do with ths firm
The rest of the episode was excellent. I'm not sure about Marissa running Julius' campaign, it starting to feel like she can do pretty much anything.
The rest of the episode was excellent. I'm not sure about Marissa running Julius' campaign, it starting to feel like she can do pretty much anything.
I can see it now, someone is going to open their own firm. Lucca, Maia, something disruptive is about to happen.
This is still very much working for me, the Coulton cartoon about irony poisoning and pepe the frog was the best one yet (including the one from last season), the white woman calling the police on Lucca only missed one of those cutesy nicknames for the white woman, the pay disparity issue got a tonne more nuance than they needed to do with it and was all the better for it, the resistance group starting to show its ugly side was inevitable but it's interesting to see Liz get dragged into it, that Taylor Swift analogue genuinely had me pausing the episode for a minute so I could breathe and not die from cackling, Julius got a really good character beat standing up for Marissa, and holy shit look at that Maia has an actual character arc this season. This is madness.