This week’s The Good Wife was fantastic, but yech, the way they treat race and people of colour on this show always frustrates me. If I were more awake and had less work to do maybe I could mount a better argument about this, but. I can think of three black characters who were given something to do in the last year (i.e. excluding Julius Cain, who’s still a partner at the firm, but flits by in an episode once every half-season to make a point about race, or something) - Derrick Bond, associate: fired! And I do feel like he was brought in and set up to fail as he did.

In this episode alone!: Wendy Scott-Carr, the person who led the case against Will, and when that case failed the show framed it as her failure! (And I don’t think I’m being overly sensitive about this, because even with Cary and Dana in the room with her at all times, every time someone from Lockhart-Gardner nailed it at the stand, and when we saw the case falter against the jury at the end, we saw her reaction: crushed and lost for words and caught completely off-guard.) Dana, who gets tricked by Kalinda (who’s shady but the audience does love her) and then slaps her. (And let’s not get into the “Cary likes dark-skinned women” thing, whatever that was.) It says more against them than not. :/

Plus this show likes to bring in weird science to justify racism? or something? I just. Dramatically this show is so good, and I enjoy these characters so much, and I love these ladies so much (Kalinda! textual bisexual who is badass!), but the way it handles race and other political ~issues~ is so sketchy.