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IndieWireJun 24, 2021
Season 5 Review:
For those concerned that any departures and rearranging mean that the show has lost its freewheeling spirit, fear not. ... After setting the table in that season premiere, the second episode has all the hallmarks of the wild “Good Fight” imagination and self-deprecation that it’s long had in its foundation. Those renewed strengths are delivered with an even greater sense of confidence, in writing and performance and presentation.
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TV Guide MagazineFeb 24, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The Good Fight is as sexy and profane as it wishes to be while retaining the crackling wit and smart sophistication of the original series. [27 Feb - 5 Mar 2017, p.17]
Sep 2, 2022
Season 6 Review:
Braugher electrifies the season, further texturizing Diane and Liz's hot-and-cold relationship with his suspicious smile. ... In the five episodes provided to critics ahead of the premiere, Marissa's and Jay's momentum suggests satisfying closure for two characters who deserve it. ... Baranski is, and always has been, a joy to watch.
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IndieWireMar 5, 2018
Season 2 Review:
Rage and fear aside, in the first three episodes screened for critics The Good Fight still also manages to be fun. The show retains all of the qualities that made “The Good Wife” so delightfully bingeable during its original CBS run while lobbing oddball choices into the mix.
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Jun 24, 2021
Season 5 Review:
"Previously On" is designed to serve everyone who has been with the show since the start, of course, but to those coming in cold it's a succinct summary of what happened before that nobly sends Adrian and Lucca on their way while moving confidently into the next chapter. ... The spark and wit is as palpable as ever.
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Mar 15, 2019
Season 3 Review:
Sometimes season 3 of a top-tier series empowers creators to swing hard for the fences, a play that doesn’t always turn out well. These new episodes of The Good Fight do, thank god. Each of the four new hours provided to critics display creators and showrunners Robert and Michelle King connecting to the ball with awe-inspiring power, covering a vast swath of current events without overly stuffing each episode with didactic, do-gooder fury.
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Mar 13, 2019
Season 3 Review:
The Good Fight is, with the possible exception of the season five arc with Alicia and Cary leaving Lockhart/Gardner, better than its CBS predecessor The Good Wife ever was. Period. Full stop. ... I'm not without reservations on The Good Fight. Freedom from CBS procedural structure has mostly been an asset for the show, yet it has a tendency toward unformed chaos in episodes that don't include a major court case.
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Feb 17, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Once again, personal stories weave around and reflect upon weekly cases; and once again, the Kings use those cases to skillfully tackle social issues, with an added emphasis here on ageism, racism and privilege. And as always, they tell their cleverly structured stories with wit, lace them with ambiguity, and sprinkle them with twists that are all the more enjoyable for being believable.
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IndieWireFeb 17, 2017
Season 1 Review:
It’s not a game-changer on the level it needs to be, for me to feel comfortable saying that it’s worth the sacrifice of sandwiches for anyone who didn’t love “The Good Wife.” That said, anyone who did love “The Good Wife” won’t regret figuring out how to make this new show a part of their lives. After all, a good show is a good show. And The Good Fight shows no signs of being anything else.
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Feb 16, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The storytelling in The Good Fight lacks some of the scope and jaunty walk-and-talk drive of The Good Wife, a consequence, perhaps, of a smaller budget. But everything else--writing, acting, vision--is smart and strong, and each episode moves briskly and offers ample entertainment.
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Sep 8, 2022
Season 6 Review:
The sixth and final season of “The Good Fight,” the Paramount Plus spinoff of “The Good Wife,” hauntingly captures the resigned malaise of living in a reality that feels irreparably untethered. ... The Kings don’t seem to mind offering up some fan service. And yet the most satisfying storylines belong to Diane’s legal partner, Liz (Audra McDonald), and protege, Marissa (Sarah Steele).
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Apr 9, 2020
Season 4 Review:
The show doesn’t simply roll its eyes at politically correct overreach, and though the episode floats the idea that enforcing the rule is the firm’s new owners throwing their weight around, the way the debate plays out, especially among the firm’s black employees, is nuanced and devoid of easy answers.
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Apr 9, 2020
Season 4 Review:
Adopting an anything-goes attitude from the freedom afforded by playing on CBS All Access, The Good Fight returns with an audacious fourth-season premiere that considers what Hillary Clinton's election would have looked like, and the associated fallout. As what-if episodes go, it's an especially good one, while setting up a mystery that will drive the quirky drama through this latest run.
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The GuardianDec 3, 2019
Season 3 Review:
The Good Wife spinoff has now become fully its own thing – even if that thing, with its welter of tones and moods, from levity to despair, and frequently experimental forms (the episode also included a cartoon song video explaining non-disclosure agreements, on top of the talking pellet wounds) – resists simple classification.
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Mar 7, 2019
Season 3 Review:
The show’s flexible, seemingly effortless dodges between the silly and the serious feel true to the experience of being alive today, truer than I would’ve thought possible. For a show as intensely rooted in the Political Now as any fictional show could possibly be, that’s an impressive feat.
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Feb 21, 2017
Season 1 Review:
[The Kings'] writing remains sharp and witty. Their knack for telling stories through crisp visuals gives The Good Fight a high-gloss sheen. And their antennae are still tuned to hidden vibrations in the country’s subconscious, picking up on the tremors that are about to become earthquakes.
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Feb 17, 2017
Jun 24, 2021
Season 5 Review:
Patinkin is always fun to watch but through the first four episodes his arc as a disruptor to the judicial system is more entertaining than driving a dramatic storyline with stakes, something “The Good Fight” seems to be having some difficulty finding in a post-Trump environment.
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Sep 6, 2022
Feb 14, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The Good Fight has to incorporate a host of supporting characters and cases of the week into the backstories of its multiple leads, and the results are occasionally a bit bumpy and scattered. All in all, however, it’s a promising endeavor, even if the lead characters are so understandably stressed that it’s a pleasure to check in on amusing scene-stealers like Eli Gold’s enterprising daughter, Marissa (Sarah Steele), and Denis O’Hare’s delightfully eccentric judge.
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Feb 28, 2018
Season 2 Review:
Series creators Michelle and Robert King spend the first two episodes extricating Maya Rindell from federal charges stemming from her father’s Ponzi scheme, including some disappointing turns in episode two that rely on things-that-would-not-happen-in-a-real-courtroom TV tropes. The Good Fight is better than that. Episode three finds the series in sharper form as the law firm comes under threat, relationships clarify and a legal case explores reality TV.
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UPROXXFeb 28, 2018
Season 2 Review:
Marissa brings so much energy and fun into every scene she’s in, she even manages to make Maia seem vaguely interesting through their friendship. The rest of the show is still an entertaining (if uneven) continuation of the original’s world, but her scenes are so much livelier than anything else.
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