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?
Since it began in 2017, The Good Fight has been brilliant and often astounding television. The legal side of the story quickly morphed into an anarchic political drama with only a sprinkling of courtroom action, taking its cue from its predecessor, The Good Wife, which followed a similar path. It has built on those foundations with an admirable lack of regard for decorum, and there is a lot to admire: Christine Baranski’s graceful performance as the esteemed Diane Lockhart, its embrace of playful surrealism, and its willingness to treat real-time, real-world events as TV fodder.
But even as a dedicated viewer and evangelical fan, I started to wonder if it was losing its clarity of vision, at around halfway through the current and soon-to-be-concluded third season.