Recap / The Good Wife

Work in progress. Recaps for episodes of The Good Wife.

Notice the Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: from Season 1 to Season 4, each episode in the season has as many words as the number of the season.

Reminder: spoilers, such as Will Gardner's death, are unmarked after this point.

Season One

Every episode this season has a One-Word Title.

1. "Pilot"
2. 'Stripped'
3. 'Home'
4. "Fixed"
5. "Crash"
6. "Conjugal"
7. "Unorthodox"
8. "Unprepared"
9. "Threesome"
10. 'Lifeguard'
11. "Infamy"
12. "Painkiller"
13. 'Bad'
14. 'Hi'
15. 'Bang'
16. 'Fleas'
17. 'Heart'
18. 'Doubt'
19. "Boom"
20. 'Mock'
21. 'Unplugged'
22. 'Hybristophilia'
23. "Running"

Season Two

Every episode this season has a two-word title.

1. 'Taking Control'
2. Double Jeopardy
3. Breaking Fast
4. 'Cleaning House'
5. VIP-Treatment
6. 'Poisoned Pill'
7. Bad Girls
8. On Tap
9. Nine Hours
10. Breaking Up
11. Two Courts
12. Silly Season
13. Real Deal
14. Net Worth
15. Silver Bullet
16. Great Firewall
17. 'Ham Sandwich'
18. Killer Song
19. Wrongful Termination
20. Foreign Affairs
21. In Sickness
22. 'Getting Off'
23. Closing Arguments

Season Three

Every episode this season has a three-word title.

1. A New Day
2. The Death Zone
3. 'Get a Room'
4. Feeding the Rat
5. Marthas and Caitlins
6. "Affairs of State"
7. Executive Order 13224
8. Death Row Tip
9. "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot"
10. "Parenting Made Easy"
11. "What Went Wrong"
12. Alienation of Affection
13. Bitcoin for Dummies
14. Another Ham Sandwich
15. Live from Damascus
16. "After the Fall"
17. Long Way Home
18. Gloves Come Off
19. Blue Ribbon Panel
20. Pants on Fire
21. The Penalty Box
22. The Dream Team

Season Four

Every episode this season has a four-word title.

1. I Fought the Law
2. And the Law Won
3. Two Girls, One Code
4. Don't Haze Me, Bro
5. Waiting for the Knock
6. "The Art of War"
7. "Anatomy of a Joke"
8. Here Comes the Judge
9. 'A Defense of Marriage'
10. 'Battle of the Proxies'
11. Boom De Yah Da
12. 'Je Ne Sais What?'
13. The Seven Day Rule
14. Red Team, Blue Team
15. Going for the Gold
16. Runnin' with the Devil
17. Invitation to the Inquest
18. 'Death of a Client'
19. 'The Wheels of Justice'
20. Rape: A Modern Perspective
21. 'A More Perfect Union'
22. What's in the Box?

Season Five

By the pattern established at this point, every episode this season should have a five-word title. But, perhaps thinking that would be unwieldy, the pattern was changed to decreasing rather than increasing. Thus, every episode this season has a three-word title.

1. 'Everything Is Ending'
2. The Bit Bucket
3. A Precious Commodity
4. Outside the Bubble
5. 'Hitting the Fan'
6. 'The Next Day'
7. 'The Next Week'
8. 'The Next Month'
9. Whack-a-Mole
10. 'The Decision Tree'
11. 'Goliath and David'
12. We, the Juries
13. 'Parallel Construction, Bitches'
14. 'A Few Words'
15. "Dramatics, Your Honor"
16. 'The Last Call'
17. 'A Material World'
18. All Tapped Out
19. 'Tying the Knot'
20. The Deep Web
21. 'The One Percent'
22. A Weird Year

Season Six

Every episode this season has a two-word title. Cary's legal woes and Alicia's campaign for state's attorney are the two major arcs of this season.

1. 'The Line'
2. Trust Issues
3. Dear God
4. 'Oppo Research'
5. 'Shiny Objects'
6. Old Spice
7. Message Discipline
8. Red Zone
9. Sticky Content
10. 'The Trial'
11. 'Hail Mary'
12. The Debate
13. Dark Money
14. 'Mind's Eye'
15. Open Source
16. Red Meat
17. 'Undisclosed Recipients'
18. Loser Edit
19. Winning Ugly
20. The Deconstruction
21. Don't Fail
22. Wanna Partner?

Season Seven

Every episode this season has a One-Word Title.

1. Bond
2. Innocents
3. Cooked
4. Taxed
5. Payback — Alicia and Lucca represent a student at a for-profit university.
6. 'Lies'
7. 'Driven'
8. 'Restraint'
9. 'Discovery'
10. 'KSR'
11. 'Iowa'
12. 'Tracks'
13. 'Judged'
14. Monday
15. 'Targets'
16. Hearing
17. Shoot
18. Unmanned
19. Landing
20. Party
21. Verdict
22. 'End'