TV Tuesdays 10: The Good Fight

A show made for a Certain Kind of Woman (me)

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Welcome to the 10th TV Tuesday!

I’ve waited long enough. It’s time to talk about The Good Fight.

I feel like if 10 very smart women got into a room and tried to come up with the ultimate Cathy bait, but couldn’t make it laugh-out-loud funny, they’d create The Good Fight.

I’m enjoying imagining the target audience for the show. I’m imagining women in their thirties and above. They have liberal sensibilities and might be found wearing a “The future is female” shirt. But you probably won’t see them escorting women into abortion clinics. They’ve worked in Corporate America and either still do and long to be doing something more meaningful or they’ve already dropped into the Non-profit Industrial Complex. They enjoy the everloving shit out of Diane’s baroque embroidered pantsuits and tasteful statement jewelry while wearing loungewear in luxe fabrics most of the time, themselves.

You know how stupid men want to be the Punisher? There’s a certain kind of woman who wants to be Diane. Me. I’m that woman. Every time I open Twitter I’m getting ready to say, essentially, “Your honor, opposing council is being a turd butt.”

Diane is the socially progressive, economically neoliberal woman’s version of Jimmy McNulty from The Wire (11/10). She’s simultaneously wish fulfillment and pitiful while still somehow staying overall relatable. She’s just like us, but on a bigger, more entertaining scale.

What do I love about this show?

1. Diane’s outfits.

2. At least half the main characters are middle-aged or better.

3. The ripped-from-the-headlines plots! Let’s TALK ABOUT the US military actually murdering a US citizen without trial. Maybe they’re from 2017 but guess what, buster? I am NOT OVER IT.

4. It’s set in Chicago. That’s fun.

5. The writing is fun and clever without being super obnoxious, imo.

If I were giving notes to the writers I’d say the show needed way more sex. HOWEVER, when it comes to longing, something we’ve covered in these here TV Tuesdays before, I must say the Lucca/Colin situation continues to give a lot.