I have to wonder what it means that Chris Noth's Peter Florrick is only a recurring character. It plays against my hopes that he will be able to get the charges against him reversed and win back his wife. Not that I am certain I want him to be able to win back our lovely lead, Alicia (Julianna Margulies). If he did cheat on her, that's not something that can easily be forgiven. The problem is, with the whole underlying current of potential conspiracies, I don't know if he did. After all, he and Alicia had such a great connection as this episode demonstrated.
We got to see some flashbacks to Alicia's old life as she defended a young man whose mother had been one of her best friends before the scandal broke. In these moments, we saw Peter and Alicia as the perfect couple. Margulies and Noth have great chemistry. It is very hard to understand why Peter would cheat, why he would need anyone else because he and Alicia had everything you need to be sexually satisfied. No wonder Alicia is so hurt.
We also learnt that Cary (Matt Czuchry), the other associate in competition with Alicia at their firm, has never actually been to trial before. He has always settled out of court - something he is quite good at - but he doesn't compare to Alicia on the floor; he gets flustered and forgets the simplest of questions. He's also made it very clear that he's Diane (Christine Baranski)'s favourite and he will continue to cultivate her preference. Alicia, of course, is backed by her former classmate, Will (Josh Charles). He knows that she is a natural litigator. And Diane only doesn't like her because she's competition for the role of best female attorney at the firm.
I continue to be interested and to enjoy the show. It does a brilliant job of remaining episodic while having very strong seasonal story-telling. And we will get to see where it is going now that it's been picked up for the rest of season 1.
What did you think?
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