THE GOOD WIFE...a very good show

Usually is hard to keep up a tv show through their entire long run. Season after season viewers and fans get attached to characters but can easily lose interest if there is not much to see about them or keep evolving with them. So tendency shows that after a couple of first season, in most cases, tv shows go down in story line, plot twists, character development, but there are also a few exceptions.

"The Good wife" (2009-current) is definitely one of them, after being struggling with tv ratings and almost got canceled three seasons ago, it just came back stronger and incredibly good as a new one, so now currently airing its 7 season we've been shocked by some plot twists, and to see where all this beloved characters have grown, not to mention is being a favorite among the critics, giving it raving reviews and awards, either for the show as the amazing cast that makes it happen and real.

So what's all this buzz about? Well this is the story of Alice, a middle age woman, devoted wife of one of the most important men in Chicago, mother two teenagers, living the dream life at the suburbs until her husband gets convicted for illegal actions at his public service and get caught cheating on her wife with different hookers via sexual video. Then her life changes completely, the man she loves just betrayed her, has to served years in prison meaning she has to take care of their children and get a job. So as she got a degree in law ask as a favor to one of her oldest friends who runs a law firm to apply as a junior associate.

Once she steps to the job, she faces what everybody does when young, just out of college, or at early stage when applying to build a career, so not just faces the lack of experience but the judgment and competition of her younger co workers. But happens that Alice is a natural for law and she learns fast and soon she is running trials and facing judges all with help of new friends, investigator Kalinda and competitor Cary, as old friend Will, which not only serves as a friend but chemistry between them goes for more, getting her feeling apart the broken heart from her husband and the feeling of desire of a new beloved. As they said, behind every great man there's always a good woman.

With all this said, just means that the table is set for a new law drama, where each episode we'll face a new client, a new trial, some will win, some will lose, as life is, good and bad days, long hours at work, and struggling between work and family time, figuring out how to be a mother and a professional, how to deal with a past life that only stand on ruins of what is left from it and new feelings, desires, excitements of what the future and new people brings to us.

Well all lacks in the evolution of their characters that can't feel more human and their circumstances more ordinary even if we have no clue about american law. Alice is a woman with strong values, same values that she is teaching to her children, two teenagers facing the fact of a possible divorce and their own teenager phase with insecurities and lots of questions. But are her values that keep her bouncing between lines on her life: how can she be a lovely mother, a tender wife while need to be a strong lawyer, a fierce women pursuing what is right, a sexy lover? How can you manage do what is right even if that goes against your believes or the need of doing things to achieve something bigger even if against your morals.

What if people around you lay their own need on you? those that make you stronger or weaker? When your husband cheats on you and breaks that trust and love, is there room for forgiveness or is time for you to move on? Or is still a need to stay with someone like that just to cover appearances and pretend to be a good family for your kids? Why people tend to judge everyone in base of their background or relations instead of what you are and have built or achieve by yourself? Thats when sometimes enemies become friends and friends turn against us. Because what really matters is that everyone gets to know you for who really are and not just base on their perspective or decisions that could be mislead, and as law is, should be as simple as is it right or is not.

Law here serves more as metaphor than a set to experience real life cases, not to say the most of them can't feel more real than anyone's shoes. Law was created as a code of rules to keep society in order but as humans shows a range of complexity law has no room for shades. It is what it is or is not. As simple as that. So what happen when you get caught in between. When you face a possibility of two way street. Which turn can you make? the one that seems right according to law or a jury or the one that seems right for your own values?

Same rules apply at home, how can you be a mother and wife, ruling by example when things are crashing in your face? sacrifice or fight for your own happiness? how far can you go to keep others together and satisfied over your own thoughts? or how open is possible not be judge while trying to build what you deserve as a person? Career fields are tough and its a jungle these days out there, where just a few positions are available and lots of people applying for them, so how can you play fair or when is acceptable to brake the rules in order to win among the others? what makes us good and what not, or when can be defined as someone good, in our jobs, at home, with friends, lovers, and when we are not? Same rules apply for everyone. Do you know the answers or do they need a trial?