The Vampire Diaries Season 5, Episode 2. Home. Please read the following before uploading. Do not upload anything which you do not own or are fully licensed to upload. The images should not contain any sexually explicit content, race hatred material or other offensive symbols or images. Remember Abuse of the TV. I have some very mixed emotions about that last sequence. The good It was satisfying that Alicia, in a scene that echoed a key moment from the shows very first episode, did not take Peters hand at the end of his press conference. She left him hanging, which was only right, given that she was about to start a new life. She held his hand walking into that room, but after that, they were done. Shed done all the Peter Florrick hand holding, literal and figurative, she was ever going to do. About time she set off on her own. Intellectually, I suppose you can make the case that it made sense for her not to find Jason in that hallway. There was a certain logic to the idea that Alicia would exit that press conference and her old life on her own. And yet I very much wanted her to walk into Jasons waiting arms. Ill never not want that. Tonally, it might have been too mushy an ending for this show, and given that the show was about an independent woman, again, the ending we got makes sense. But The Good Wife cant give me that swoon y Alicia Jason romance and then expect me to not want her to smooch Jason one more time. XGGlbiUtc9HZxveEahfJOYoam1.jpg' alt='Season 5 Finale Pll Full Episode' title='Season 5 Finale Pll Full Episode' />LAST WEEKS REVIEW The Lying Detective Gives Us Sherlocks Most Terrifying Villain YetAm I made of stone One moment from End gives me hope for Jason and Alicias future The way he looked at Alicia longingly and lovingly, just before they walked into Carys classroom. That was the look of someone who is deeply in love. Somewhere, that tall drink of man is waiting for Alicia, as she asked him to, and as far as Im concerned, at this moment, theyre in bed right now, sated in all kinds of ways and destroying a really good bottle of tequila. The point is, theyre cozy, and theyre drinking. In my opinion. The one thing that will never sit right with me about The Good Wife is the slap that Diane Christine Baranski administered to Alicia. This is not about whether Alicia deserved it anyone who broke up the Diane Kurt marriage, as Alicia probably did, deserved some kind of retribution. Physical violence is never the answer, unless youre Diane in that moment, and even the most committed Buddhists would have a hard time saying they didnt get it. Season 5 ends with Damon trying to stop the disintegration of the Other Side. Meanwhile, Elena takes matters into her own hands and demands that Liv and Luke help her. 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And if Kurt was sleeping with Holly during those years, well, that plot point is a bit of a deus ex machina, isnt it How did anyone know about that affair When did Alicia or Lucca find outThe courtroom revelation was part of a larger point the show was making, of course the point being that Alicia would do anything and hurt anyone in order to win her case. That Alicia would be cold and calcluating is not in itself a problem That idea is thematically of a piece with the show Ive watched for seven years. Watch The Rain Download Full. I dont have a problem with The Good Wife reinforcing that idea. I do have a problem with the show reinforcing that idea via a very contrived, late in the game sub plot, I do have problems with ultra convenient revelations, and I really have a problem with that whole mess determining that Diane and Alicia went out as enemies. Why was that necessaryAt its best, The Good Wife has quietly but furiously depicted the kinds of limitations women bump up against, despite their competence, and the frustrations they feel as a result. Thats all good. Why undo the idea that ambitious women can get along together, and even be friends and allies, despite differences in their agendas, with a slap straight out of Melrose Place I understand that the slap is a callback to Alicias slap of Peter all those years ago, but that doesnt make this slap carry any less sting. These are different situations, and these women slapping each other has a different context. It bothered me, and it gave the finale a sour flavor, frankly. To have the final scene of the show depict one accomplished, complicated woman striking another accomplished, complicated woman is tiresome at best and reductive and regressive at worst. A catfight, really, at this late date A scene of two women fighting over a man has to be some kind of reverse Bechdel Test fail, and Im not going to pretend to like it, just as I didnt like the contrivance of the abrupt and silly subplot involving Holly earlier this season. In any event, there was a strange, dream like quality to that final scene. Who hasnt dreamed of running down a hallway filled with an urgent need to find someone, only to discover that person wasnt there I almost wondered if the hallway sequence was all in Alicias head, but it clearly wasnt. The final slap broke the dream trance and made the eternally resilient Alicia cry, but it didnt break her. Nothing can break her now. Whether thats a good thing or a bad thing is entirely up to the viewer, but I think that idea that she is a survivor makes sense as the thought the show wanted to go out on, though, again, I have objections to how some of the last moments played out. Though I didnt love how the choice was depicted, I cant necessarily fault the idea that Alicia made a definite choice regarding Peters case. It was a tough call, but she had to pick between her work family and her actual family, and she chose the latter. The most successful parts of the finale were the ones in which she meditated on what it had all been for hi, Will. Ultimately, Alicia decided that her family needed some closure so that they could truly move on and work as a unit, even a fractured unit. With Peter doing a year of probation, Grace could go to college, her other kid could do. Finally, she could start her new life with Jason, one hopes. Alicia has probably lost her job at her former firm I cant see her and Diane working together after this. But she has a new job running for office. This is only hinted at in the last hour, but Ive long thought that the biggest missed opportunity of The Good Wife was not showing Alicia actually serving in elected office. Showtime Full K-PAX Online Free. There were long stretches in which I got bored with Peters various campaigns and Alicias own campaign had some dull spots, but I always wanted to see how shed actually do if she was the States Attorney. Lets face it, Alicia, especially as depicted in the last few seasons, had all the qualities an effective politician needs She doesnt much care whether people like her, but she can put up a palatable front so that they vote for her. Shes tough and not much gets to her, and she doesnt let her vulnerabilities show unless they work to her advantage. Shes a master of controlling her image and she actually has the tenacity to get things done. It probably would have been a pretty great season of TV if the drama had spent some time showing Alicia making the tough decisions of an elected politician. Perhaps the reunion movie will cover that The reunion movie I hope the Kings and the cast make in a few years, that is. A lot of what transpired before that final scene was good, solid Good Wife trial based storytelling. There were reversals and surprises and ups and downs there was a jovially eccentric judge and this shows version of stunt casting real life superstar lawyer David Boies. But it was really about Alicia figuring out what she wanted, once and for all. It was hard not to agree, because, oy vey, the amount of hoops people have had to jump through for that one entitled man. But the Kings, who wrote the episode, did a good job of walking Alicia through her life options, bringing her back into contact with characters like Cary, and getting her in a room with Will once again. Grief is a weird thing it ebbs and flows and resists logic. Thats why it made sense that as momentous decisions occupied Alicias days, her nights and private moments would be overtaken by thoughts of Will, the one who got away, the one who died before she could truly make up her mind to be with him.