By Dorothy Rabinowitz The Good Wife
Season six begins Sunday, 9:30 p.m., on CBS
A word for "The Good Wife," which begins its sixth season with a
theme that's all the rage now, and a story--mostly
unrelated--conceived with characteristic skill and intelligence
that's riveting to the last. The theme concerns Alicia Florrick,
ace attorney, betrayed wife, who this season faces mounting
pressure to run for political office--in this case, that of state's
attorney. The story involves a member of her firm, in desperate
trouble--spoiler details not allowed--that Alicia sets about trying
to set straight. The problem is a catastrophic one and grows more
so, the kind at which the show's writers excel as, in scene after
scene, an atmosphere of fear builds. The season's premiere episode
delivers no answer to the question of Alicia's future in politics.
It provides something better--a ripping specimen of "The Good Wife"
at its best.
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