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The Good Wife (TV Series)

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Original title

The Good Wife

Year

2009

Running time

45 min.

Country

United States

Director

Screenwriter

Michelle King, Robert King, Corinne Brinkerhoff, Ted Humphrey, Meredith Averill, Todd Ellis Kessler, Leonard Dick, Keith Eisner, Courtney Kemp Agboh, Karen Hall, Barry M. Schkolnick, Steve LichtmanSee 8 More

Cast

Music

Danny Lux, David Buckley

Cinematography

Fred Murphy

Producer

CBS Productions, Scott Free Productions. Broadcast by: CBS

Genre

TV Series. Drama | Courtroom Drama / Lawyers. Politics

Synopsis

TV Series (2009-2016). 7 Seasons. 156 episodes. THE GOOD WIFE is a drama starring Emmy Award winner Julianna Margulies (E.R.) as a wife and mother who must assume full responsibility for her family and re-enter the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail. Pushing aside the betrayal and crushing public humiliation caused by her husband Peter (Chris Noth), Alicia Florrick (Margulies) starts over by pursuing her original career as a defense attorney. As a junior associate at a prestigious Chicago law firm, she joins her longtime friend, former law school classmate and firm partner Will Gardner (Josh Charles), who is interested to see how Alicia will perform after 13 years out of the courtroom. Alicia is grateful the firm's top litigator, Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski), offers to mentor her but discovers the offer has conditions and realizes she's going to need to succeed on her own merit.

CBS announced during Super Bowl 50, on February 7, 2016, that the show was ending with its seventh season. The final episode of the series: May 8, 2016.

Rankings Position

#14 Ranking series about lawyers or politics/politicians

Awards: 2016: Emmy: 3 Nominations including Best Writing

2015: Emmy: 3 Nominations including Best Supporting Actor (Alan Cumming)

2014: Emmy: Best Actress in a Drama (Margulies). 5 nominations

2013: Emmy: Best Guess Actress (Preston). 5 Nominations

2012: Emmy Awards: Best Guest Actress (Plimpton). 7 Nom.

2011: Emmy Awards: Best Leading Actress (Margullies). 9 Nom.

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Critics' reviews

"Alicia's cases are intriguing, and the background drama would be melodramatic if it weren't such a common story these days"

Paige Wiser: Chicago Sun-Times
"(...) 'The Good Wife' promises to be that Holy Grail of television: a good criminal procedural that barely disguises the insightful, multilayered human drama that lies beneath"

Mary McNamara: Los Angeles Times
"A smartly conceived and well executed legal drama with a strong star (Julianna Margulies) at its core and, even better, a terrifically timely hook"

Matt Roush: TV Guide
"Verdict: guilty--of being a guilty pleasure. Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"

Linda Stasi: New York Post

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65 TV Series that Get Better as They Progress (7)

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