As if it could do anything else with Christine Baranski and Audra McDonald at the helm, The Good Fight signs off in style with Series 6
“I want off the wheel”
I’m not quite sure how I managed to neglect watching the sixth and final series of The Good Fight, but it was only when I was contemplating starting another Robert and Michelle King-verse spin-off Elsbeth that I clocked that I hadn’t actually finished this. So belatedly (and in brief), here’s a look at this magisterial piece of television.
Born in the first Trump era, the show has always been something of an existential howl of rage at what the USA is devolving into, through the prism of an African American–led legal firm in Chicago. Law, politics, life and love all get refracted into a messy reality as an all-too-real sense of a looming apocalypse threatens the safety and sanity of all.
Storylines remain as ripped-from-the-headlines relevant as ever – white supremacist riots, big tech over-reach, Supreme Court justices’ wives and their nonsense, unreliable Republicans. And the characters remain suitably titanic in the face of it all – Christine Baranski’s Diane over all this shit but unablw to quite extricate herself, Audra McDonald’s Liz dealing with the shit as it comes at her ever heavier, and the late great Andre Braugher introduced as voluble new partner Ri’Chard Lane, Well worth the time if you haven’t watched already.
