History Series / TheGoodWife

''Series/TheGoodFight'', an {{aftershow}} focusing on Diane Lockhart, streamed on CBS All-Access (later Creator/ParamountPlus) from 2017–22. A second spinoff, ''Elsbeth'' (starring Creator/CarriePreston, reprising her role from the series), will debut on CBS in 2023.

** There’s occasional references to websites like Website/FunnyOrDie and Website/CollegeHumor when parody videos of candidates are made.

It had a [[KoreanDrama South Korean]] [[ForeignRemake remake]] of the same title that aired in 2016 for one season on tvN. A Japanese remake of the same title has aired in January 2019 on [=TBS=].

A legal drama series that aired for seven seasons (2009–16) on Creator/{{CBS}}, co-executive produced by Creator/RidleyScott and starring UsefulNotes/{{Golden Globe|Award}} and UsefulNotes/EmmyAward winner Creator/JuliannaMargulies.

-->'''Eli:''' Oh, so, there are two fish in a tank. (''Chuckles'') And, um, one fish says to the other fish, ‘How do you drive this thing?’ That was the punch line, [[DontExplainTheJoke because, you know, we-we think they’re in a fish tank, but actually, they’re in a tank tank]].

** Guy Redmayne, a potential donor both Alicia and Frank try to sway. He touches Alicia’s hands and just above her knee, making her visibly uncomfortable, and tells her he’ll support her because he ‘[[HeteronormativeCrusader doesn’t like fags]]’, which he assumes Frank is (and Alicia tries to deny). When he meets with Frank, he [[ScrewPolitenessImASenior talks about Alicia in the most sexist language he can come up with]], until Frank is outraged and calls him out on it.

** In ‘Undisclosed Recipients’, the firm’s emails get hacked. Alicia’s aren’t, because she’s been using her campaign email for the past four months. This episode premiered the same mouth a scandal erupted about Hilary Clinton using her personal email for Secretary of State business. Except that given the lack of time ([[http://www.thestar.com.my/Lifestyle/Entertainment/TV/News/2014/06/19/The-Good-Wife-Better-plot-best-season/ the show’s production time is supposedly two and a half months]]), there’s no chance it was deliberate, making it accidentally HilariousInHindsight for something that hadn’t actually happened yet.

* SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX: The wedding planner whose appeal R. D. wants to support in ‘Loser Edit’ claims in the mock trial that she’s not prejudiced against anyone, and mentions with a smile that her ‘very favorite florist’ is gay. R. D. himself tells Diane he has no problem with gay people, including his beloved gay nephew, but it’s same-sex marriage specifically that he disagrees with. Diane turns it on its head by having the aforementioned gay nephew play one of the witnesses in the mock trial, which seriously pisses R.D. off.

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* PerverseSexualLust: Peter has had so many affairs, including with hired sex workers, that he basically has to be a sex addict.

''Series/TheGoodFight'', an {{aftershow}} focusing on Diane Lockhart, streamed on CBS All-Access (later Creator/ParamountPlus) from 2017–22.

It had a [[KoreanDrama South Korean]] [[ForeignRemake remake]] of the same title that aired in 2016 for one season on tvN.

A Japanese remake of the same title has aired in January 2019 on [=TBS=].

* AmbiguousDisorder: Elsbeth Tascioni, who’s easily distracted by things surrounding her and led to flights of fancy by them.

A legal drama series that aired for seven seasons (2009–16) on Creator/{{CBS}}, executive-produced by Creator/RidleyScott and starring UsefulNotes/{{Golden Globe|Award}} and UsefulNotes/EmmyAward winner Creator/JuliannaMargulies.

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''Series/TheGoodFight'', an AfterShow focusing on Diane Lockhart, streamed on CBS All-Access (later Creator/ParamountPlus) from 2017–22.

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Alicia Florrick (Margulies) has a bit of a problem on her hands. Her husband Peter was the former State’s Attorney of [[UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} Cook County, Illinois]], until he got caught [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed being Eliot Spitzer/Bill Clinton]] and resigned. Then he got sent to prison for corruption.

A trained lawyer, Alicia returns to practice at the law firm of Lockhart/Gardner, run by Diane Lockhart (Creator/ChristineBaranski), her haughty sort-of mentor, and Will Gardner (Creator/JoshCharles), her former law school classmate (and potentially more). Alicia begins running the pro bono cases, but of course, she’s a defense lawyer and all the prosecutors know her--including the new State’s Attorney, who may have shopped her husband to the authorities.

Meanwhile, her husband Peter (Creator/ChrisNoth) is trying to clear his name and potentially return to politics with the help of crisis manager Eli Gold (Creator/AlanCumming). But he needs his "good wife" by his side, and Alicia isn't sure whether she wants to be with him anymore.

An {{aftershow}} titled ''Series/TheGoodFight'' (focusing on Diane Lockhart) premiered in February 2017 on CBS's streaming service CBS All-Access.

** The first season brought up revelations that Glenn Childs has tapped the Florricks’ phones and done other illegal things in a grab for power, and implied the feds were moving in to investigate. This was quickly forgotten as soon as the election arc started and Wendy Scott Carr taking over as the primary antagonist.

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Creator/{{CBS}} legal drama series, 2009 to 2016, executive-produced by Creator/RidleyScott and starring Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Creator/JuliannaMargulies.

Alicia Florrick has a bit of a problem on her hands. Her husband was the former State’s Attorney of [[UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} Cook County, Illinois]], until he got caught [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed being Eliot Spitzer/Bill Clinton]] and resigned. Then he got sent to prison for corruption.

A trained lawyer, she returns to practice at the law firm of Lockhart/Gardner, run by Diane Lockhart, her haughty mentor of sorts, and Will Gardner, her former law school classmate (and potentially more). Alicia begins running the pro bono cases, but of course, she’s a defense lawyer and all the prosecutors know her--including the new State’s Attorney, who may have shopped her husband to the authorities.

Meanwhile, her husband Peter is trying to clear his name and potentially return to politics. But he needs his ‘good wife’ by his side, and she’s not sure whether she wants to be with him anymore.

** Alicia is having a directional crisis. She sits on a bench in a park, and stares blankly at a street performer (played by Anne Marsen) in a shiny gold unitard dancing terribly to terrible music. [[ContinuityNod Who Alicia knows]], and the performer comes over and asks how Alicia’s doing, and talks about about Alicia's issues. Then she asks Alicia if she wants to dance. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CacudL5Nr6k Here's the dancer's full storyline]].

* MoodWhiplash / {{Bathos}}: The show is fond of breaking up serious moments with random things, such as when Alicia and Cary are having a serious discussion, and she’s forced to talk louder when a truck starts backing up nearby, or when Alicia is having a directional crisis and sits on a bench in a park and stares blankly at a street performer in a shiny gold unitard dancing terribly to terrible music. Who she knows, and she comes over and asks how she’s doing.

* IWarnedYou: David Lee plays this up a bit in episode five, season five when [[spoiler:Cary and Alicia leaving the firm and taking clients]] is revealed.

** Mirroring the first episode, [[spoiler:the series finale has Alicia standing by Peter as he resigns, but this time it’s Diane who [[ArmorPiercingSlap slaps]] Alicia instead]].

* ArtisticLicensePolitics: In ‘Payback’, Marissa tells Eli that Eyal Naftali, Chief of Staff to Israel’s Communications Minister, wants to run for the Knesset, and later for Prime Minister, and wants him to manage his campaign. Aside from the fact that this position does not exist[[note]]The Minister has a ''deputy minister'', whose name as of the episode’s air date is Shlomo Filber[[/note]], but you don’t run for Knesset--you run for party leadership in a party that has primary elections, and then the ''party'' runs for Knesset. Becoming Prime Minister means your party is big enough and you can manage to form a coalition with enough parties to get the majority of Knesset members on your side (i.e. a Westminster-style parliamentary system, sans ridings). Even more JustForFun/{{egregious}}ly, she tells him it’s his chance to get rid of Netanyahu (who is all too chummy with the Republicans in RealLife), while a person at this position would almost certainly be in Netanyahu’s coalition.[[note]]Although in real life, Netanyahu eventually ''was'' unseated by an ex-member of his coalition who had turned on him, Naftali Bennett, so perhaps this one was more prescient than it initially looked.[[/note]] And, incidentally, as of the episode’s air date, the Israeli Minister of Communications name is... Benjamin Netanyahu. The episode seems to assume the Prime Minister of Israel is [[EaglelandOsmosis equivalent to US President]], with similar elections. Israel does in fact have a President, but the office works very differently, and Presidents are also chosen by the Knesset.

* LittlestCancerPatient: {{Exploited|Trope}} by [[ManipulativeBastard Mike Cresteva]], who has a son with terminal cancer when he runs for district attorney and has him appear in his campaign ads to promote himself.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: A mild case. The third season premiere checks in with Alicia and seven other regular characters (Diane, Eli, Grace, Zach, Cary, Peter, Kalinda) before the opening titles, making Will [[ItMakesSenseInContext noticeable by his absence]]--''he'' shows up right after the titles, before the credits. Those are all ''regulars'', never mind recurring characters and the primaries in [[LawProcedural cases of the week]].