BWW Recap: Now Is The Hour on THE GOOD WIFE

I'm conflicted. That was a great episode. Except when it wasn't. I laughed, I cried (the goodbyes!), and red wine didn't help me understand my feelings any better. Was I watching parody? Homage? A wink-nod combination of both? Parties can be hard work, and this house 'Party' was no exception ...

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We start the hour right where we left off. Except everything is, well, off. Alicia has just told Jason about her impending divorce and he totally Jason-s it. That is to say he plays it way too cool for someone who seems to show up all the damn time, and then wrecks the moment by giving Alicia a present that isn't. I mean, a deed to land on Mars needs context, dude. You can't just watch your lady light up like a city then hand her a joke gift and bail when everything goes dark.

Especially after she's just told you there's no better moment than now.

I'm deducting 10 points from Jason Crouse. Alicia Florrick is finally learning her lessons, and you're getting in the way of her progress. Why can't Will have been in the shower this whole time?!

Jason leaves Alicia in her own confusion, right as she needs to pull it together to host a ketubah signing party for Jackie and Howard. We know the party is going to be all sorts of meta goodness when funeral flowers show up instead of nuptial ones, and the cake says Rest in Peace. This might be a love party, but it's also a divorce party (surprise, kids!), and a farewell party too. From Darkness at Noon to lush Veronica, there are going to be a lot of send-offs tonight ...

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Jason isn't a terrible person. He can have his ten points back. While Alicia is hosting her love/divorce/farewell party, he's out on Eli's dime, finding out what the Feds really have on Peter Florrick. Starting with Matan (Matan!), the trail of botched evidence in the son-of-a-major-donor murder case soon appears to lead directly back to the Governor.

Dismissed blood samples. Missing bullets.

Peter is guilty!

But then he explains it all - as the State's Attorney, this was going to be his OJ case if things weren't done right, and things were not done right. So Peter stepped in. And so, apparently, did ballistics expert and ace husband Kurt, which may or may not lead to things I really don't want to think about happening next week.

Peter is not guilty!

Someone is going down for this. Will it be Cary, who has hired Louis Canning to represent him, should our (suddenly very cute) ousted lawyer once again find himself a scapegoat? Will it be Kurt and his ballistics bungle? Or Eli, the campaign manager who knew too much? Or will it be Alicia Florrick herself, as Canning hints when he suggests it's time for THE GOOD WIFE to rid herself of her husband once and for all?

Everyone's got a stake in this. Everything and everyone is connected to Peter Florrick's spinning planets once again.

Gone ... forever?

Goodbye forever! says Jackie Florrick (Lyman?) as she hugs her soon to be ex-daughter in law goodnight. Jackie's exiting with her lovely, snooty head held high. It was a great party after-all. If you don't count the following:

* Zach announcing his engagement to an insufferable millennial called Hannah who is taking him to France so he can write memoir and drink red wine.

* Drunk, jealous Veronica letting it slip that the Florrick marriage is soon to be no more.

* The Florrick children not coping with this (unexpected?) news.

* Alicia sneaking out of the party to wear her boyfriend's jacket and realise his lone rider I don't stay put for long thing is all sorts of bulls (10 points from Crouse once again).

* Almost every person under 50 at the party getting a call about Peter's case, including one from Mike Tascioni, where he quits as Peter's lawyer.

* That Darkness at Noon guy taking a really, really long time to die.

So much happening. Not all of it cohesive, either. But ultimately, the goodbyes win the hour. Alicia to Jackie (and Howard). Alicia to the wonderfully loose Veronica, and Owen (Where's Owen! - we've asked ourselves that many a time over the years, V!). And Alicia to her beloved Zach, which was really our goodbye to Graham Phillips. It might have made me cry, just (more than) a little.

We end the hour with Alicia and Peter sitting on her bed, toasting their divorce. They don't make out, because they've turned another corner, these two kids. I kind of wanted them to. But I didn't really. No good life was ever lived looking back ...

Next week's episode looks intense. Things are literally being torn apart on the penultimate episode of our show. Are you ready? It appears the Verdict is about to come in - see you there when it all goes down!

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