Sex Scandal Catapults 'Good Wife' Into New Job as Law Firm Associate
Those looking for a little light entertainment might wish to tune in tonight to a new television program about the travails of a disgraced Illinois prosecutor’s wife forced to return to the associate trenches at a Chicago law firm after a 13-year hiatus to support herself and their two children.
The Good Wife, which is prominently featured today in an advertisement on the New York Post’s website and described by Bloomberg as a “potentially addictive legal drama,” premieres tonight on CBS at 9 p.m. central time.
It is impossible not to root for Julianna Margulies, who stars in the title role as Alicia Florrick, the news agency reports. As she competes at the office with “a coven of back-stabbing ladder-climbers” she must also attempt to get some work done while enduring the public humiliation of having her well-known husband jailed in a sex-and-corruption case.
The program, the New York Times reports, starts at what is usually the ending of the public drama in such sex scandals: The stone-faced wife standing loyally at the side of her erring husband at a news conference.
In her new role as a junior associate, Alicia Florrick’s connections will not be an asset, the newspaper notes: “Judges, former cronies and Peter [Florrick]’s successor all know and dislike her husband.”
Additional coverage:
The Watcher (Chicago Tribune): “Best new drama on TV?”
Updated at 4:45 p.m. to link to Chicago Tribune blog post.
