Review: The Good Wife, Channel 4 (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Review: The Good Wife, Channel 4

11:24am Friday 19th March 2010

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SO that’s where that nice Nurse Hathaway got to.

Yes, Julianna Margulies has left all traces of ER and George Clooney behind her and has reappeared in Channel Four as The Good Wife.

After a sluggish start, the latest American import has finally begun to show some real promise on a Monday night.

On paper, the basic plotline sounds rather worthy — lawyer gives up career for family and while ambitious hubby becomes District Attorney, only for him to be exposed as a serial adulterer and sent to jail for improper business dealings, so she has to go back to work.

But, thankfully, it has steered well clear of the Kleenex territory occupied by Grey’s Anatomy and become a pretty decent courtroom drama.

It’s not Shark, which the US networks in their wisdom decided to kill off prematurely, but with Ridley Scott listed among the credits you know it’s going to be pretty decent fare.

As a result we’ve got Alicia forging a new career for herself while a sinister unknown character appears to be trying to ruin her husband’s chances of getting out of jail.

My money’s on her creepy boss, by the way.

The Good Wife is one of those series that in five years will be forgotten but it’s a harmless way of spending an hour’s viewing.