Tuesday, November 16, 2010
A CYNICAL, EROTIC MEDITATION ON MODERN POLITICS AND SCANDAL: NYMag's Emily Nussbaum really, really wants you to join the rest of us in watching The Good Wife, "the first show I’ve seen that seems to actually be about politics on a psychological level, as opposed to the pleasurable utopia that was The West Wing."
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Without getting overly political, I think the two shows mirror how America has felt about politics at the time of their debut, to at least some extent. West Wing responded to a period of deeply flawed leaders (on both sides of the political aisle) with hope/idealism, while Good Wife responds to a period where leaders sometimes seem larger than life with cynicism.
ReplyDeleteI've gotten the first season DVDs, but we haven't yet broken into them.
ReplyDeleteI think that's a great reading of the shift Matt. And would add that ambiguity within Good Wife is a direct evolution from the moral ambiguity we saw in cable shows (like The Sopranos and Deadwood 10 years ago) to network television.
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