'The Good Wife' Review - 3.14 Another Ham Sandwich

        In the newest episode of CBS' The Good Wife, with her investigation complete, Special Prosecutor Wendy Scott-Carr presents her evidence against Will to the grand jury in hopes of sending him to prison for judicial bribery. Meanwhile, Eli and Stacie Hall square off once again.

        The majority of this episode involved Wendy Scott-Carr provided her evidence against Will at a grand jury to get an indictment. Throughout the hour, we see Diane, David Lee, Judge Parks, Alicia and Will take the stand to offer their testimonies. At the beginning the defense led by Elsbeth Tascioni decided to mention Peter whenever possible as he is the only person who could call off the proceedings and to evidently confuse the jury. It was fascinating to see Wendy stumble through her case as Will proved a worthy opponent to undermine her evidence as untrue. As many suspected, Kalinda tampered with the information in the file that she gave to Dana to incriminate Will last week. However, I am now left wondering that due to that Dana will now go through with her threats of attacking Alicia with the forged signature. In the end, the grand jury did the unlikely and didn't indict Will due to them thinking that Wendy overstepped her boundaries as well as the judge and Peter looking more guilty. While, the firm was celebrating this joyous news, Wendy was with Peter and told him that she was going to go to the bar association with the allegations to stop Will from practicing the law. At the end of the hour, it felt that Peter scared her away and it was refreshing to have this storyline wrap up so nicely. However, based solely on the promos for the next episode (not until February 19!) it seems we haven't seen the end of this case - or a baseball bat.

        With all of the dramatic tones of the Will story in this episode, it was once again up to Eli Gold to offer the more comedic elements. Lately, it feels as if Eli is a little too disjointed from the rest of the cast and stories and is only being used for comic relief - which he's great at but he can do so much more as well. This season has shown him trying to win over his own clients instead of working with the rest of the firm. Add to that that this specific case wasn't really compelling and was lackluster. Sure, it offered great interactions between Eli and Stacie as they both tried to one-up the other, but the only good thing about this story was the reveal that Stacie was running Eli's ex-wife's state senate campaign.

Side Notes:

• It felt like Dana should have just slapped Kalinda without being told to do so by Kalinda. Difference of opinion, I guess.
• It was clever to substitute profanity with other words like 'fish'. It further proves that this show trusts its audience to be intellectual beings. This show really is the broadcast equivalent of a cable show
• I'm split over Cary choosing to stay in the room for Alicia's testimony. In the moment, it felt right for him to leave the room but then in the overarching side of his character and his development it makes total sense. 
• The scenes of Alicia in her apartment were both great. Julianna Margulies and Chris Noth continue to play well off of each other. Although I didn't quite believe that Alicia's excuse of wanting to take a vacation was the best thing that she could have thought off to tell her children.