Summary"The Good Wife" is a female-driven drama about a politician's wife who pursues her own career as a defense attorney after her husband is sent to jail on charges of political corruption. Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) will not only have to deal with her career but also with keeping her family together by providing a stable home for her two c... Read More
Created By:Michelle King, Robert King
The Good Wife
7 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere:
Sep 22, 2009
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
81
User score
Universal Acclaim
8.6
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
81
89% Positive
47 Reviews
47 Reviews
11% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Sep 22, 2014
90
The CBS drama continues to provide evidence that quality isn’t necessarily defined by blood, guts or exposed flesh. All it really takes is brains--and in this case, you don’t even have to eat them.
88
Alicia's cases are intriguing, and the background drama would be melodramatic if it weren't such a common story these days.
80
Each week the show is both intriguing and satisfying, as we watch Alicia piece together little victories while comforting her kids and confronting lurking demons from her old life. Despite the usual familiar courtroom shenanigans, the show's full, multilayered episodes keep us interested.
80
With the rest of the cast hitting the same high notes as Margulies and the script, 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.
75
If The Good Wife can maintain the first episode's tone, it will keep an audience even after political sex scandals fade from the news.
50
Even as this plot pattern bodes ill, Margulies and Panjabi make a formidable team.
User score
Universal Acclaim
8.6
91% Positive
820 Ratings
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3% Mixed
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6% Negative
51 Ratings
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Apr 26, 2021
6
Season 1 review - I came here looking for reviews, where are they? My wife and I are halfway through season 2... Well it is a... good show. It is kind of like "Law and Order" but ultra liberal and more character based than story based. The court room drama ranges good to great and the plots twists are very good, but time and again liberal view points are shown as always good and conservative ones are "out of touch" and old-fashioned. It is still good acting and story-telling, just it just gets a bit much at times, though I do often pity the characters and their bad life choices, but I'm not sure the writers intend me too. On the other hand the personal drama is just over the top. These are adults making these decisions? A married woman whose marriage is on the rocks and is trying to rebuild it is pining away for her boss who was not even a boyfriend? The childish and short sighted decisions of these "adults" would be better suited to high school, if that: "do you like me or do you "like me", like me?" Then an adult woman pressures another adult woman at work to pursue a sexual relationship outside of her marriage because... why again? Love? With a man you've never been with except as a friend and co-worker? What about the wifes children? Her husband? The consequences? The guilt? What decision are the writers hoping I will cheer on, I wonder? If your friend pressures you to do something, frankly, stupid, they aren't your friend. Didn't we learn this in high school? It's like 9th graders are writing the moral dilemmas. There is plenty of drama in the courtroom for these peoples jobs, then they have office politics and then, somehow, they get the energy for affairs and liaisons and one night stands and liberal life styles and such... The lawyers can vacillate one minute from standing up for the little guy to then actively supporting a known drug dealer and murderer because he has money and their firm needs it more than they need a clean conscience.. The acting and the plot twists and courtroom drama keep me and my wife coming back, I'm guessing we will finish the whole series, but it feels a little demoralizing at times to see "adults" act this way and I seldom have someone I want to see win. FINAL EPISODE - Well without spoiling anything, we have finished this series entirely. It didn't get better. Plot lines come and go and wow, these are the most self-absorbed and lost people. And a very emotional but meaningless ending.
Production Company:
- Scott Free Productions
- King Size Productions
- Small Wishes
- CBS Productions
- CBS Television Studios
- CBS All Access
Initial Release Date:Sep 22, 2009
Number of seasons:7 Seasons
Rating:TV-14
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Win & 14 Nominations
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 5 Wins & 43 Nominations
Gold Derby Awards
• 3 Wins & 40 Nominations




























