‘The Good Wife’ Season 6, Episode 14: Creators Expose Alicia Florrick’s Mind (Review, Spoilers)
“The Good Wife” Season 6, Episode 14, titled “Mind’s Eye,” brings Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) closer to the audience through a direct peek into her mind. Series creators Robert King and Michelle King delivered this week’s new episode, which brilliantly focuses on the titular character. (Episode air date: Mar. 8 on CBS.)
Spoiler alert: This review recaps the highlights of “The Good Wife” Season 6, Episode 14. Read on at your own risk.
“The Good Wife” Season 6, Episode 14 shows Alicia imagining several characters speaking in her head, laying down their arguments and rebuttals. This thought process helps her find holes and strategise her battles well.
“The Good Wife” Season 6, Episode 14 starts with Johnny Elfman (Steven Pasquale) and Marisa Gold (Sarah Steele) prepping Alicia Florrick for a campaign-related interview with an important and conservative publication. Alicia imagines the publication’s bosses asking her some tough questions.
In Alicia’s mind, Marisa is freely dishing her thoughts, showing the young Gold’s insights matter to the good wife herself. Eli Gold (Alan Cumming) and Elfman debating in Alicia’s head provides sharp and engaging lines that make The Good Wife 6x14 an extra special episode.
Alicia is juggling several aspects of her life as the campaign period for the Office of the State’s Attorney slowly peaks. In The Good Wife 6x14, her health is not so well. Laryngitis is giving her a hard time, but Alicia couldn’t refrain from speaking even as Elfman wanted to physically mute her until the interview.
Alicia’s firm with Cary Agos (Matt Czuchry) and Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski) is also facing a tricky wrongful eviction lawsuit against her perennial friend/nemesis (frenemy), Louis Canning (Michael J Fox). Canning is later rushed to the hospital, and Alicia rushes in to pay him a visit. Shortly before then, Alicia finds out her daughter is “done” believing in God.
Alicia Florrick’s mind is no easy place to navigate. In-between campaign questions, law firm discussions, and thoughts about her children Grace (Makenzie Vega) and Zac (Graham Phillips), sexual images emerge in the good wife’s mind, as if asking her to loosen up and break the tension.
Both Elfman and Finn Polmar (Matthew Goode) figure in Alicia’s sex-related thoughts in “The Good Wife” Season 6, Episode 14. At one point, Finn in Alicia’s “mind’s eye” is speaking the words of the actual Elfman in her mobile phone, suggesting Alicia sees both men in the same sexual way.
Peter Florrick (Chris Noth) and Kalinda (Archie Panjabi) also figure in Alicia’s mind, as she finds a way out of her campaign’s Lemond Bishop (Mike Colter) complication. “The Good Wife” Season 6 is keeping Alicia’s plate full, which is excellent for the viewers who want to know more about this powerful and sexy character.
The saddest presence in Alicia’s mind’s eye is that of Will Gardner – whose face remains hidden throughout the episode. Alicia misses Will, but she later bids him goodbye, saying he really is no longer with her.
“The Good Wife” creators and husband-and-wife Robert King and Michelle King put together a fantastic teleplay that intimately looks into Alicia’s mind, her very soul. “The Good Wife” Season 6, Episode 14 is easily one of the very best episodes of the season.
Robert King, who also directed “The Good Wife” Season 6, Episode 14, made the best of all the characters’s brief and sporadic moments in Alicia’s mind. It is easy to imagine the whole thing falling apart had it not been for its excellent cast – including guest star David Hyde Pierce as Frank Prady.
“The Good Wife” Season 6 airs Sundays on CBS.
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