After last week’s slightly uneven episode, I was worried that perhaps The Good Wife might never fully recover from the absence of Will Gardner.
Oh, how wrong I was. I should have never doubted my beloved show.
The episode, directed by Josh Charles (love that he’s still part of The Good Wife family), kicked off with an intense ten minutes that found Alicia back at the home of the dastardly Colin Sweeney (Dylan Baker reprising his Emmy-nominated role). Sweeney is getting married—again—this time to Renata Ellard (the wonderful Laura Benanti who I still miss on the cancelled Go On).
In the dizzying opening sequence, Alicia must try to get Colin to sign corporate merger documents (in the midst of a party straight out of a Robert Palmer video) while juggling multiple professional (Finn Polmar is being dropped from the case) and personal (there’s a picture of Zach on Gawker with a bong) issues.
The party comes to a halt when Renata’s friend, Morgan, is found hanging in the bathroom. As Det. Lou Johnson (James McDaniel) points out, Alicia does have a habit of showing up whenever a dead body is found at Colin’s house.
The fact that Renata did kill Morgan and that she and Colin colluded together was not a surprise. That ending is the kind of twist a show like The Practice used to regular employ, and we’ve seen Colin get away with murder multiple times. What was a surprise was Alicia’s faulty memory. She tells the detective that Colin was never out of her sight. But we, the audience, know that’s not true. There’s a point she cannot find him. She thinks a man is him, but when he turns around it’s not. She eventually finds him in the kitchen munching on a chicken wing. Is Alicia protecting Colin, or is her memory faulty because so much nonsense was going on at the party. How much do you pay attention to things when you’re juggling multiple phone calls and crisis?
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