Product Description
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The Good Wife™ is a drama starring Emmy Award winner Julianna
Margulies as a wife and mother who boldly assumes full
responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after
her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal
lands him in jail. In Season 2, even with her husband back home
and planning to run for office again, Alicia continues redefining
herself and her role in her family's life.
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The Emmy-nominated second season of The Good Wife presents
powerful drama that interweaves passion, politics, family
turmoil, and courtroom action and features a talented cast that's
bound together by an absolutely thrilling chemistry. Alicia
Florrick (Julianna Margulies) has survived the political sex
scandal and incarceration of her state's attorney husband Peter
(Chris Noth), picked up her career as a lawyer after many years
away, and somehow still managed to take an active role in raising
her two teenage children. In a situation in which the personal
and professional are ly entangled, Alicia has taken
control of her life and blossomed into a strong, confident woman
whom others respect. But Alicia's life is complicated. Peter is
back home and running for office again, and Alicia is continually
butting heads with campaign manager Eli (Alan Cumming) while
struggling to figure out just what her relationship with Peter
will look like going forward. There's an undeniable attraction
between Alicia and her former classmate and current boss Will
(Josh Charles), and the law firm they work for is in financial
trouble. Alicia's deepening friendship with Kalinda (Archie
Panjabi) seems like the one relationship that Alicia can depend
on, but Kalinda is an incredibly complex woman with a whole lot
of secrets. When Lockhart Gardner merges with another firm,
Kalinda acquires a new and worthy adversary in rival investigator
Blake (Scott Porter), who quickly teams up with now-prosecutor
Cary (Matt Czuchry) to uncover and publicize the dirty details of
Kalinda's past. What the two men unearth threatens to irrevocably
damage, or perhaps even destroy, the friendship between Alicia
and Kalinda. The powerful performances of the cast and the
intensity of their emotional connection with one another on
screen cannot be overstated--every character, from Alicia to
Peter, Kalinda, Will, and Eli, is completely believable and their
interactions with one another are simply electric. This season
features a host of talented guest stars, including Michael J.
Fox, Gary Cole, Rita Wilson, Jerry Stiller, America Ferrera, and
Anika Noni Rose. They appear as attorneys, judges, and plaintiffs
in a docket of intriguingly complicated legal cases that among
them involve a drug kingpin, an alderman, a Nobel prizewinner, a
ceutical company, an Internet mogul, a disabled attorney,
and a narcoleptic judge. While all of these guest stars give
solid performances that really add something to the series, Fox
deserves special re for the three episodes in which he
plays the disabled attorney Louis Canning. Fox's performances
feature physical comedy and a simultaneous intelligence that
rings true, and the interaction between Canning and Alicia
reveals a new and fascinating side to Alicia's character.
There are quite a few bonus features sprinkled throughout this
six-disc set, the most notable being the three "Real Deal Inside
the Episode" segments. These extras examine how hard the talented
writers work to create characters that are passionate and
continually growing; the demanding process of writing and
producing a weekly TV show; and how the creators use music,
sound, and visual effects almost impressionistically to create
meaningful, memorable moments within each episode. The fairly
brief "Conversation with the Kings" is an interesting discussion
with co-creators and executive producers Michelle and Robert King
about how carefully they craft each episode to advance that
week's plot while simultaneously developing each of the
characters. There are also a handful of deleted scenes, a
20-minute discussion with the cast and creators that's moderated
by Dalton Ross, a glimpse of the season-one DVD release party,
some silly behind-the-scenes videos by Alan Cumming, and three
campaign music videos that were used in the show. --Tami Horiuchi