The Good Wife - Stripped, S01E02

This show is SO likeable.

How can you not like and respect a woman (or a man) who has lost a civil case, but is still happy because the same case will be tried in criminal courts and not be lost? The stripper whom Alicia and her firm were defending didn't want the money she would have received in a civil case. She wanted people to know that McKean had raped her. And since she got what she wanted, then that is a win...even if it's not our firm who made it happen.

Julianna Margulies's Alicia is the kind of woman you want to be friends with, or even to be. She is strong and hard-working, loves her family above everything else, and has issues but deals with them in a healthy and normal way. It is so easy to believe all the choices she has made so far. I feel for her because I also am unsure of her husband's betrayal. She wants to know the extent, she can't forgive him unless she knows the extent. Can you blame her? It may seem extreme that she wants numbers, details of that kind, but knowing the facts is probably better than what her imagination would give her.

If The Good Wife keeps making episodes that are this believable, I will keep watching. There is something about watching a show where I don't ignore details because, well, tv shows aren't perfect. Even though I question the bizarre photos of Peter's affairs that their son and daughter consider fakes, I don't question the children's desire to protect their parents. They were both horrified but drawn to the photographs, but quickly came to the decision to hide them from their mother. They wanted to protect her. And I loved that Alicia, having caught a glimpse of one on her son's computer, now thinks he may be looking at porn. And she's not overly upset, after all this is what boys do.

So now, I am hooked, even though I rarely watch dramas, rarely watch courtroom shows. Welcome to my Tuesday night date.