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The Good Wife

The latest news and reviews of the Good Wife

July 2024

  • New York’s finest … Carrie Preston (right) as Elsbeth Tascioni.

    TV review
    Elsbeth review – a tedious spinoff for the Good Wife character who makes you want to smash your TV

    This murder-of-the week drama – with its screamingly obvious solutions – was seemingly dreamed up in five minutes. It’s like a charmless Columbo, with brighter clothes

January 2022

  • Christine Baranski, Los Angeles Times, March 17, 2019<br>Actress Christine Baranski is photographed for Los Angeles Times on January 30, 2019 in Pasadena, California. PUBLISHED IMAGE. CREDIT MUST READ: Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/Contour RA. (Photo by Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/Contour RA by Getty Images)

    The G2 interview
    ‘How lucky was I?’: The Good Fight’s Christine Baranski on Sondheim, stardom and snobbery

    As she prepares to star in the new ‘American Downton’, the 69-year-old actor talks about her blue-collar roots, her friendship with Stephen Sondheim — and the pleasures of late-career fame

May 2021

  • Head shot of actor Cush Jumbo in white shirt against blue background

    Cush Jumbo: ‘He’s doing less screen time but being paid three times more? Er, no!’

    The Good Fight star went from relative obscurity in the UK to primetime in the US. Now she’s coming home on her own terms

November 2020

  • Michael J Fox

    Michael J Fox: ‘Every step now is a frigging math problem, so I take it slow’

    After living with Parkinson’s for 30 years, the actor still counts himself a lucky man. He reflects on what his diagnosis has taught him about hope, acting, family and medical breakthroughs

September 2019

  • The best TV of the century composite.

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century

    Where’s Mad Men? How did The Sopranos do? Does The Crown triumph? Can anyone remember Lost? And will Downton Abbey even figure? Find out here – and have your say

July 2019

  • Archie Panjabi for G2 arts. Photo by Linda Nylind. 4/7/2019.

    Archie Panjabi: ‘Not getting on EastEnders didn’t turn out too badly’

    Rejected by the soap three times, the British star was told an ‘Indian actress’ wouldn’t make it in Hollywood. Now she’s in demand both sides of the Atlantic ... just don’t ask about The Good Wife

May 2019

  • ‘I ran into the men’s room and projectile vomited’ … Margulies, star of new drama The Hot Zone.

    Julianna Margulies on her shocking Ebola drama: 'I panicked in my hazmat suit!'

    The star of ER and The Good Wife is back – as a doctor fighting to save humanity. She gives her bodyguard the slip to talk about our imperilled planet – and her love of Sussex A-roads
  • The One Where the Sun Comes Out<br>Christine Baranski and Audra McDonald in The Good Fight

    How The Good Fight became TV's most political drama

    The third season of the ever-topical legal drama has delivered a torrent of righteous anger but has it gone too far?
  • Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart in The Good Fight.

    Channel 4 to air censored episode of The Good Fight

    Broadcaster ‘contractually obliged’ to show the legal drama in same format as CBS

March 2019

  • THE GOOD FIGHT<br>THE GOOD FIGHT S3 EP1 Pictured: Rose Leslie as Maia Rindell

    The Good Fight review – a controlled explosion of fury at the Trump era

    Now in its third season, the legal spinoff has become a vehicle for channelling liberal anger at these grotesque times. Prepare to be swept along entirely

December 2018

  • Christine Baranski in The Good Fight

    2018 in TV
    The 50 best TV shows of 2018: No 7 – The Good Fight

    Christine Baranski stormed through a breezily brilliant legal drama that delivered a cathartic howl against Trump’s America

July 2018

  • Christine Baranski

    Mamma Mia's Christine Baranski on schmoozing with Cher and meeting Trump

    As the regal actor returns to cinema screens, she discusses her Abba-loving co-stars and her iconic role in The Good Fight

June 2018

  • Day 492<br>Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart

    TV review
    The Good Fight review – bold end to a risk-taking, Trump-baiting season

    With ever more daring storylines, the absurdity of current US politics gets skewered by this wonderful witty and intelligent legal drama

May 2018

  • Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart in The Good Fight: tough as iron yet somehow malleable enough to be surreal and silly.

    The Good Fight: in praise of Diane Lockhart, one of TV's greatest characters

    The dazzling second season of the legal spin-off drama has boasted many pleasures but nothing lingers quite as much as Christine Baranski’s multi-layered lead

April 2018

  • TV

    From Jessica Jones to Chandler Bing: which TV characters need a makeover?

    Which superheroes aren’t doing themselves justice with their ‘damaged genius’ uniform? Who needs to stop aping Easy Rider? Here’s our rundown of telly’s sartorial underachievers

February 2018

  • The Sopranos

    From ER to The Sopranos: what were the most shocking TV deaths?

  • Archie Panjabi

    The Q&A
    Archie Panjabi: ‘An agent told me an Indian woman could never have a Hollywood career'

January 2018

  • Slow and low: James Norton in McMafia and Archie Panjabi in Next of Kin.

    McMafia, Next of Kin and the problem with 'slow' TV

    Two of 2018’s biggest dramas have deployed glacial narratives shifts to tell their stories, but in the era of Peak TV and skip buttons they could become obsolete

November 2017

  • Carrie in Homeland, Tony Soprano and Big Pussy in The Sopranos and Clay Davis in The Wire

    Shortcuts
    How to follow the Mueller probe (if your only knowledge of US justice comes from TV)

    When decoding terms in the Trump-Russia investigation, such as Rico, Fisa and grand jury, those hours spent watching the likes of The Wire, Homeland and The Sopranos finally come in handy

July 2017

  • Cush Jumbo as Lucca Quinn in The Good Fight.

    British TV and film industry 'pulls plug' on black actors, says Cush Jumbo

    Cush Jumbo, speaking to a Labour arts diversity inquiry, says she often hit the ‘exotic best friend ceiling’
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