Season 6 starts tonight on More4, and it’s still The Best Thing on Telly™.
It's easy to get engulfed in the fog of hype around TV shows that fans assure you are The Best! Thing! Ever! Think of every HBO series ever – regardless of quality, duration or cultural impact – and consider how many of them actually changed your televisual life. Not that many, right?
Well, hold on to your hats.
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Because The Good Wife – the smart, funny, heartbreaking, exciting, brilliant, and Peabody and Emmy award-winning The Good Wife – is amazing. It is – by some margin – the finest drama currently on the air. Indeed, It is one of the best TV dramas of all time. Yes, that is my final answer, and no, I am not taking any questions at this time.
If you're the kind of viewer for whom the word "wife" in a programme title makes you recoil in horror – first of all, what's wrong with you? Second, don't let that put you off. The Good Wife – with its starting point of a shamed politician and his loyal wife – soon mutates into something far more interesting. This is quality drama, with incredibly well-rounded and realised characters, full of whip-smart writing, genuine tension, and high stakes, and with showrunners who are unafraid to take big risks (that sometimes fail, but more often than not deliver BIG results). It is thrilling to watch television that treats you like a grown-up and offers you up morally ambiguous characters who are not all…straight white men (there are a few present, though).
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