This spin-off of The Good Wife follows Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski), who is named partner of the Chicago law firm where Alicia Florrick (Good Wife star Julianna Margulies) was an associate, and Lucca Quinn (Cush Jumbo), Alicia’s cohort in the final season of the series. Lucca has left for a position in an African American-owned firm run by Adrian Boseman (Delroy Lindo) and Diane has plans to retire until she discovers that all of her investments have been lost in a Ponzi scheme run by one of her closest friends. So she and Maia Rindell (Rose Leslie), daughter of the investment fund manager under investigation, follow Lucca to the new firm. The format and style comes directly from The Good Wife, complete with timely issues and political wrangling, but plays out in the culture of a maverick firm that has built a business model around civil rights and social justice cases. The writing is smart, the performances are excellent, and the show offers interesting observations on race and politics. Plus it brings back many regular and recurring characters from The Good Wife, including Carrie Preston as eccentric attorney Elsbeth Tascioni, John Benjamin Hickey as web guru Neil Gross, and Dylan Baker as rich psychopath Colin Sweeney. With so much of the creative team carried over from the earlier hit show, there should be a lot of interest in this one. Presenting all 10 episodes from the 2017 debut season, extras include deleted scenes and a gag reel. Highly recommended. (S. Axmaker)
The Good Fight: Season One
Paramount, 3 discs, 491 min., not rated, DVD: $39.99 Volume 33, Issue 3
The Good Fight: Season One
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