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'The Good Wife': Michael J. Fox and Lili Taylor, does it get better?

michael-j-fox-lili-taylor-good-wife.jpgOn "The Good Wife's" latest episode, Michael J. Fox guest stars as Louis Canning, a lawyer defending a pharmaceutical company in a class-action lawsuit where an anti-depressant allegedly failed to work.

His character suffers from dyskinesia, which happens to be a symptom of his real-life Parkinson's disease, and Louis had no problem using his condition to curry favor with the jury.

His antics really are wonderfully devious. Man, we love Michael J. Fox. To combat his courtroom antics, Diane has to make medicine sexy. The tales of anal sex and public sex are hilarious, but we could've done without the rat video.

When a therapist turns up with a strong reason why a woman would have killed herself and her husband that is not related to the defective anti-depressant, Will puts Blake on the case of the therapist.

Blake finds a past patient of the therapist who the good doctor slept with. That's a big no-no and the pharmaceutical company settles (for far less than they were willing to pay out). But it sounds like Blake harmed the therapist enough to hospitalize him and Kalinda knows it.

Meanwhile, in the State's Attorney's office race, candidate Wendy Scott-Carr has a white husband, a boob job in her past and ... Grace Florrick as a supporter. Ruh roh. But Michael J. isn't the only sly fox in the episode -- Eli Gold uses a Childs plant to leak a story about Wendy's boob job so that it doesn't come from the Florrick camp. Sneaky.

Alicia confronts Grace about her support of Wendy, which got caught on video. Grace thinks it's about free speech, but Alicia reminds her it's about family. Grace's problem was with a cartoon video lambasting Wendy for getting her boobs done, which could have come from Florrick's camp. And regardless of where the video came from, it backfires because Wendy had her boobs done after a breast cancer double mastectomy. *head smack* Hell, we think we're ready to vote for Wendy.

And in the on-going dueling investigators plot, Blake's on to Kalinda's play-for-both-teams proclivities, so she has to tell a past interest of hers, Donna, (the lovely Lili Taylor) to lay low. Instead, they make out in a bar. Sexy. She reaches out to Cary to dig up dirt on Blake and Cary finds out Blake used to protect Baltimore's biggest meth gang. Naughty, naughty Blake. And even more naughty, he brings Donna to an office party and outs Kalinda.

This show just keeps getting better and better, don't you think? Much like Julianna Margulies' portrayal of Alicia, the show is just very quietly excellent. We aren't sure how they could get Michael J. Fox back on the show since his character is from New York City, but we think that would be just excellent. Recurring character!

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Grace Florick has annoyed me to no end since last season. Can they send her to live with some family in another city?

Loved the episode. Lili Taylor shone so bright, I almost forgot about Fox's excellent performance.
The writing was excellent.
Only downside: what is going on with Will? I don't like him being the flawless Peter alternative for Alicia but really... asking Blake to maim a witness? Telling him "not to worry" about Kalinda? What is that about? The Sopranos?

Just LOVE the 'Good Wife'. Yesterday's episode was the BEST ever.
Michael J. Fox and Lili Taylor and the rest of the cast are GREAT.
Pls keep us on the edge of our seats!
Thanks!

Love this show! I came to it midway through the first season, so I need to catch up on all the episodes. I also have my local channels blocked by leaves for half the year, so I go crazy when I miss episodes in the original run. The writing, brilliant cast and chemistry grab my attention every week and never let go. The Good Wife, as Homicide and The Practice, makes me count the days until the next episode.

I think Will was being figurative about "going for the knee-caps" -- he wanted Blake to dig up some dirt -- not do bodily injury!

Michael J. Fox was really good as a sleazy lawyer. Maybe if they bring him back, they could cast Thomas Wilson (Biff Tannen) as his equally sleazy law partner. That would be awesome!

I loved this episode. Michael J. Fox can't help being one of the best damned actors on the planet even with a disability that would knock most people on their ***.

I'd like to see Alicia smile more. That episode with her brother where she cracked up over Owen saying her hubby was a homophobe - it lit up her entire face - she's beautiful serious but she's incredible when she's smiling. And Mr. Big smiling for a change was nice too. The series needs more unexpected laughs like that. Not too often, but every now and again.

I've missed most of this season's episodes due to time commitments and a monopolized DVR, but I love this show. The talent bench is so deep it's a thrill to watch.

I LOVE THIS SHOW!!!! Love the ending and the look on Felicia's face when he tells her he didn't lose like they thought! AWESOME!!!

I love the show but I'm getting a little tired of the Blake storyline. Because if he's such a sleaze and the new partner brought him in, does that mean the new partner is a sleaze, too?

I'd like more of Kalinda working on the cases and less of her hunting up the dirt on Blake. It's just getting old.

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