The Good Fight

A series with many faces. It's a spin-off, but it goes its own way. It will not be to the liking of many, it is all about current "liberal-leftist" issues. Big social issues such as racism, polarising political views, feminism, etc. are often handled in a sophisticated way, from many angles, without offering any black and white answers, but instead the cases end up in a bittersweet grey area. In contrast to this, usually in the same episode, there is a theme that gives the impression that someone in a tabloid saw the headline of an article "snowflakes XY" and based on that made an agitprop insert that will offend even a like-minded viewer by its naivety and misunderstanding. And so it is with everything. There are visible characters and a lot of caricature figures next to them. On the one hand, it works with the pragmatic stabbing in the back of top law firm office politics, countered by addressing matters of the heart in a style that even second-rate Latin American soap operas from the early 1990s would not have chosen for being too cheap. They address a current serious social issue, but there is a line about a malevolent-evil mega-conspiracy of old structures. The central characters are not dealt with across the series, but on the basis of the seasons, meaning that as a rule, they behave like different characters from one season to the next, and they don’t know what to do with them after some time. And so, in the final episodes, the main character Diane becomes another one of the lot, she does drugs, looks thoughtfully out of the window and allows herself to be crushed by the weight of time and relationships, now and then she is used as a deus ex machina in court, but she does not solve her own cases. The result is that when it works, it works, it has pace and something to say. But when it doesn't work, watching the next episode is guilty pleasure. | S1: 3/5 | S2: 4/5 | S3: 3/5 | S4: 3/5 | S5: 3/5 | S6: 3/5 | (08/11/2022)