If there's digit abstract that's proposition most "The Good Wife," it's that null constructive ever comes without complications. After the ill broad of the flavour 2 finale, Sun night's flavour execute ended on an ambiguous, ominous note: Just what has Alicia gotten herself into?

When we terminal saw Will and Alicia backwards in May, they were way to the Presidential Suite unitedly to skilled their long-suppressed passion for apiece other, and, in what's embellish a practice on "The Good Wife," the execute picked up more or inferior correct where we mitt soured -- on the farewell after Will and Alicia's alcohol-soaked tryst. Alicia (who ostensibly had instance to attain it to the store for a hurried charge cut before work) exits the lift at Lockhart-Gardner, virtually lambent with post-coital satisfaction. (What, no hangover?)

Time was that Alicia, her material panting stick-straight, would hit change blameable most unerect with her politico patch ease (technically) married. Now, her material looser and wavy, Alicia seems to wassail in existence intense -- or, you know, variety of naughty. (Driving this saucer home, hour likewise subtly, is Chris Isaak's "Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing" on the soundtrack.)

Clearly, she's ease sport broad on the waste of her long-awaited connexion with Will, but the sound is short-lived and presently enough, actuality begins to ordered in. The writers are apparently activity with our expectations in this episode, forestalling the interaction between Will and Alicia for as daylong as possible. After display up to impact late, Will eventually stops by Alicia's office. "We requirement to talk," he says gravely. "About terminal night?" she says, her material cocked flirtatiously. The environs cuts absent and, the incoming instance we wager Alicia, she's at her desk, hunting potty and dejected. Naturally, we adopt that Will has meet delivered whatever category of Last Night Was a Mistake/I'm Not Ready for a Relationship ® speech, a distrustfulness that exclusive grows deeper when Will scolds Alicia in grappling of Diane. 

But no! It's every conception of their plan, you see. Next abstract we know, Alicia and Will hit slipped absent for a aroused nooner at Will's locate -- and dead we wager meet ground Alicia was hunting so entertained every morning. Orgasmic moans notwithstanding, there are flushed flags every over the locate for Alicia. The most troubling time of the program has to be  Will's conversation with Kalinda, in which he laments his quality to wager trusty emotions. "I meet same performing same someone who feels something," he says, cryptically, before scooting soured for a fellow with Alicia at 8:45 sharp.  (Was it meet me, or did anyone added vexation that something strength hap between these digit downbound the distinction -- if it hasn't already?) Judging by the countenance on Alicia's grappling as she waits for Will to arrive, Alicia has whatever earnest doubts as well. Sexual alchemy is digit thing; consortium is another, and Will hasn't attained it yet.

Speaking of trust, Alicia's relation with Kalinda relic icy but, at Diane's urging, they've reached a category of detente. It's humorous that Alicia is so shy of Kalinda, when Kalinda is ease belike the most reliable mortal in her life; it's an unfortunate, clumsy fortuity that she also slept with saint a whatever eld back. If you communicate me, the mortal Alicia rattling ought to be worried most is Eli, who's today ordered up collection at Lockhart-Gardner.  Last season, Alicia and Eli's once-combative relation evolved into something near to a friendship. Now they're colleagues, and I exclusive wait Eli to interpose boost into Alicia's individualized life. Eli is a Byzantine and surprisingly likable character, but he's never without ulterior motives. He's at Lockhart-Gardner for most fivesome full transactions before he begins to strategy his incoming move: Peter's gubernatorial campaign. Eli's direct loyalty will ever be his possess ambition.  Don't forget, Eli was the man who deleted Will's voicemail in the prototypal place; if Peter's political fortunes depend on his equalisation with Alicia, then trusty we crapper wait Eli to do much, such worse. In short: Alicia meliorate check her back.

On a somewhat brighter note, Alicia's relation with Grace (who appears to hit acquired whatever nice, expensive-looking highlights over the summer) seems stronger than it has in the past. In a pleasant lowercase environs on the couch, Grace notices that her care seems happier without her ascendant around. I'm not trusty what this augurs, exactly, though I do venture that Zach's feelings toward his care strength not be so positive.  I'm also not so trusty what to wait with attitude to Grace and her oddball tutor, who has material same a nonmodern thrall and, inexplicably, likes to flick herself diversion on underground cars filled with Amerindic football players. Uh ... kids these days, am I right? As Florrick kid-related subplots go, this was sure digit of the show's more head-scratching moments.

Like the WikiLeaks-inspired plot from terminal year's flavour premiere, this episode's "case of the week" was pointedly topical and unco ambitious, modify by the standards of "The Good Wife." In a tense 44 transactions (or so), the housing grazed on hot-button topics including anti-Semitism, the Semite Spring, the impact of Jewish-American welfare groups on external policy, person settlements in the West Bank, campus radicalism (I idolized the Chomsky-esque academic who doesn't actually pain display up to class), ferocious recording games and merry crimes of passion. That's an implausible sort of complications for some digit case, something that Eli recognized when he said, "The Islamic was the dolphin but he was also merry and unerect with our guy, so I would call that a artist integrated message."

For our purposes, the most engrossing characteristic of the housing was how it pitted Alicia against not exclusive her longtime competition Cary, but also her unloved husband. Together, these digit attain a alarming team, selection to beam an clear Arabian to jail for remove in visit to conciliate Peter's person donors. That's pretty cynical, modify for "The Good Wife." Meanwhile, Cary seems to hit spackled over that fleecy blot he erst had for Kalinda. He slips her an bag with surveillance photos of Jamal's car, but exclusive so that Jamal will implicate himself in the murder.

So, what are your predictions for the flavour ahead? Who should Alicia be worried most the most: Cary, Will, saint or Eli?

Stray thoughts:

-- I wish Fred Melamed makes added attendance presently as Judge Alan Karpman.

-- I understood Kalinda's attempts to be "good" this episode, but it was also a lowercase depressing sight her countenance so dispirited. I wish she gets her impression backwards soon.

-- Will and Alicia's stimulate environs was sure "steamy," but the prurient lateral of me wishes we'd gotten to wager what went downbound in the Presidential Suite. It staleness hit been something.

-- "The Good Wife" has touched to 9 p.m., but it's ease definitely 10 p.m. in spirit. There were a sort of spirited lowercase asides in this episode, same when Sophia told Cary, "If I were you I'd artefact it to her," or Eli offered, "If it helps his drive I could encounter discover if he's a top."

-- I conceive perhaps the writers are overplaying Sophia's sexiness a bit; when Cary prototypal lays eyes on her, she's sitting sideways, her legs hoisted up on the blazonry of her chair, same a college enrollee studying in a building ordinary room. Sort of incongruous for a state's attorney's office, no?

-- I admit that I was initially potty by Will and Alicia's "afternoon delight." Something most the oblique belittle of the camera prefabricated me conceive it was a flashback to the period before, and I couldn't wager what on connector they were doing at Will's apartment.  

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