Here's some scoop on The Good Wife from this week's (Posted on 5/21/14) Ask Ausiello column.
Question: That Alicia-Cary fight in The Good Wife finale was pretty raw. Can the legal duo bounce back from it? –Miles
Ausiello: Let’s go straight to EP Robert King for his outlook on Florrick-Agos for Season 6. “Alicia and Cary have always based their relationship as work partners on Diane/Will, and there were some wonderful fights between Diane and Will in other years,” he points out. “Their hope, or our hope, is that like Diane/Will, Alicia and Cary can find that mutual respect that brings them back.” From a purely dramatic standpoint, though, King says he thought it was “lovely” to see Matt Czuchry’s character “going toe to toe with Alicia with that kind of fury. It’s soemthing we haven’t seen before, even though I think the argument could and probably should be made that Cary’s character did a wrong thing [in setting up a meeting with Louis Canning].” Finally, he adds, it’s important to remember that a Florrick-Agos merger with Lockhart-Gardner is “probably not a good idea, and Cary’s right [about that]. But a lot of their argument was both about career and about the personal. He was smarting from the Kalinda revelation, but for Alicia, she’s tired because of Will’s death. When people have a disaster in their lives or a loved one dies, they begin to second-guess all their decisions up and down the line.”
Question: Set my mind at ease, please. The Good Wife isn’t going to get ignored in the Emmy race after its incredible fifth season, is it? –Jasmine
Ausiello: Far be it from me to pretend to know what’s in the hearts and minds of Emmy voters, Jasmine — remember, these are the folks who never managed to find room for Buffy‘s Sarah Michelle Gellar on their ballot. That said, on the subject of Emmys, we asked Good Wife EP Robert King if he and his writing staff have been subtly poking fun at voters’ tendency to favor cable shows by having multiple scenes of Alicia obsessing over a woeful faux AMC series called Darkness at Noon this season. His answer? “Actually, no. What we were looking for is a show that made Alicia become a binge-watcher,” King says. “There are a lot of cable shows that are like, ‘dark men and dark times.’ And what we wanted to do is have this comment on what was happening in Alicia’s life. When she’s thinking about sex with that stranger from jury duty, Darkness at Noon is all about sex. When she comes out of mourning Will, there’s this soliloquy about hating God.” That said, King acknowledges Darkness at Noon wasn’t exactly imagined as high-quality fare: “We were looking for a comic and satirical way to show Alicia binge-watching and finding it reflecting on her life. We’re the biggest fans of those shows. So a lot of it is affectionate, even though it might be satiric. It’s affectionately satiric.”
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