HOLY EX PARTE, BATMAN! There were a lot of nifty twists to this week's The Good Wife -- adding Barry Scheck to the show's odd collection of real-life cameos, the New Yorker story on Cameron Todd Willingham's execution, Lord John Marbury, excited utterances, single-candidate debates (seriously, where's Smokey and Lorrell?), Zach meets Kalinda -- and yet ...
Look: I'm sure we've got readers more familiar with Seventh Circuit clerk behavior than I am, but even from my less-trained perspective this episode struck me as just batshit insane in terms of what they asked us to accept as legitimate. Not just the clerk's nudging on the addendum brief, but a habeas appeal being heard by one judge ... who calls one side's attorney on the phone to ask substantive questions about the case? Really? Oh, and if Lord John Marbury, Arson Expert signed a new affidavit, how the hell did they get it notarized at O'Hare?
Finally, I just didn't feel like the death row scenes carried an appropriate level of gravity -- or maybe we've been spoiled by Dead Man Walking. I just never believed execution was a serious risk at any point. B-minus episode.
