It is said that the general trend of the world is that if the left is long, it will be right, and if the right is long, it will be left. And the law lives in it. This law strictly self-regulates people, so it naturally pursues political correctness, which is actually more inclined to the left.
As the creator of a legal drama, The Kings - even if the Kims have superb balance skills, the leftist tendencies of "The Good Wife" are undisguised: the prototype of the heroine Alicia Florrick is the Democratic Party's Sheila And there is also a photo of Diane with Hillary on the table without any trace of PS. However, by the end of 2016, with the defeat of Hillary Clinton and the inauguration of President Trump, the sky fell. At the beginning of this year, after 7 seasons of "The Good Wife", it ended successfully. Even though it has been well received, the ratings of "The Good Wife" have always been tepid, the actors have their own ideas, and fans have different opinions. Especially for Alicia, it has always been a mixed bag. After the seven-year itch, it's time to end the old life and start a new journey. That's how The Kings started working on The Greater Good, a spinoff of The Good Wife. Without the virgin bitch Alicia, the result may be greater, but the greater risk is that it doesn't look good. Because the realist Alicia is the soul of The Good Wife, her complexity and controversy are dramatic, which equals the brilliance of the story. In addition, it has always been difficult for derivative dramas to surpass the main drama, and it is not uncommon to receive negative reviews. Between a dilemma, Trump who made American great again was elected, and the smart Kims saw the opportunity and immediately changed their name to "The Good Fight", not fighting with the president for greater, but still expressing the attitude of the left: keep fighting, And to do the good fight.
Just as Trump saved America's talk show, Trump actually saved "The Good Fight." According to the evolutionary history of American dramas, The Kings half-actively and half-forced Liangshan to choose the top configuration of legal dramas: the three heroines of "The Good Fight" are an elderly woman Diane Lockhart, a middle-aged African-American Lucca Quinn and a young lesbian. Maia Rindell. This landmark configuration maximizes the political correctness of the left and takes into account the visibility of the story. Trump's presidency rationalized the circumstances in which the story took place. This is not to say that reality is more tolerant of this kind of political correctness, but that reality's mockery of political correctness has instead strengthened some audiences' demands for extreme political correctness. Not one step earlier, nor one step later, "The Good Fight" just appeared in front of the audience.
Compared with being united and harmonious, the leftists are better at blackmailing each other and self-defeating. So it's no surprise that every episode of "The Good Fight" has a fancy black Trump. The reason why this spin-off drama can be so politically correct and still good-looking is that the ability to add self-defeating in the dark is so clever and humorous that it is unfathomable. Let's talk about a few examples.
At the beginning of the series, Diane watched Trump's oath of office in shock, a scene that laid the emotional foundation for this season's black Trump.
As an admirer of Hillary, Diane thinks that the world is hopeless, so she no longer cares about human beings and decides to retire to enjoy life. The next scene is the young woman Maia starting to take the judicial exam, swiping the query results over and over again, anxiously waiting for the exam to pass. Some people feel that the end of the world is coming, while others have hope. This interesting contrast is like sunset and sunrise in a day.
Maia's actor, Rose Leslie, is thin and thin, like the usual image of British actors. Her appearance and acting skills are more suitable for being a literary youth rather than a lawyer, and with a deep British accent, few people are optimistic that she can become an American lawyer with a eloquent lotus. These shortcomings, when Maia spoke up in court for the first time, the screenwriters took advantage of the judge's mouth to open it up, and the judge directly asked her to speak loudly:
The screenwriter takes the initiative to blackmail, on the one hand, he shows that he is black and does not recognize six relatives, and on the other hand, he also shows: We know our own strengths and weaknesses very well, the audience can just complain about it, there is no perfect actor in this world. And it wasn't over, and then they hacked another of the show's actors, Maia's stiff-faced mom, Lenore Rindell. And by the way, the American drama "Lie To Me" was hacked. This American drama, like Friedman's method in the play, believes in analyzing whether to lie or not from the facial expressions of the characters:
All of this was in vain with the expressionless Lenore above. You can say that Lenore's face is not even a facelift. If you can deduce the truth from the facial expressions of the characters, why do you need a lawyer?
Rose Leslie seems so unsuitable to play a rich second-generation American lawyer, but, setting her sexual orientation as gay, everything seems to make sense - so different that she is gay, what else do you want ? The characters are reasonable, and the dramatic effects come out. For example, you can make some different jokes, such as parents urging marriage. Every young woman in the world cannot avoid being urged to marry by her parents, but this time it was so leftist and so ingenious that it made people laugh.
Since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage, there have been more and more jokes about it. For example, Lucca, one of the heroines, was praised by her boyfriend's mother:
Homosexuality is so politically correct, there must be some people who can't stand it. Besides, there is a lesbian couple Kalinda and FBI Lady in "The Good Wife", and here is another pair of Maia and Amy. Are your CBS writers all lily men?
Thinking that some audiences will ask this question, the screenwriter immediately starts with the strong, and the black is respectful: those of you who don't like lilies, do you want chrysanthemums?
The screenwriter said that you can't blame me, only that Lily is too beautiful:
Does anyone think this pair looks like best friends? Well, the screenwriter also took it into consideration, look at the big characters on Amy's chest "Blonde and Blue-eyed Good Girlfriend":
Black finished gay started black race. The leftists like to be racially correct, and they annoy their own people. So Lucca found out that her white boyfriend had a tendency to take advantage of her racial correctness and broke up with him immediately.
Not to mention, "The Good Wife" is criticized for being too white. So "The Good Fight" simply went to a black law firm. One of the reasons the boss Boseman poached Diane was because of racial diversity, a reason L&G also used. Two comparisons, the laughing fruit is better.
All in all, the black of the left is full of tricks. And these smart and humorous black people and self-deprecation partially alleviate the extreme emotions brought about by political correctness. But the good-looking of an American drama still depends on the characters and the plot to win. And the longevity of a legal drama depends on the values of Zhongzheng and peace, rather than the current cases that catch up with the trend and attract attention. I hope "The Good Fight" has passed the initial gimmick period of the spin-off drama, just as Trump is becoming more and more like a president, more and more like an excellent legal drama.
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