‘The Good Wife’ spin-off ‘The Good Fight’ had to change scenes due to Donald Trump winning election
When “The Good Wife” creators Robert and Michelle King first started to conceive some of their ideas for their spin-off series “The Good Fight,” they very clearly had some different ideas about how they were going to construct their series. Specifically, we mean that in terms of the results of the Presidential Election earlier this year.
Speaking according to Entertainment Weekly, the Kings made it clear that the initial plan regarding the spin-off was to focus in part on a Hillary Clinton victory, whereas now they are going to open with Diane (Christine Baranski) seeing the results that Donald Trump was elected President instead:
“Like most pollsters, we thought Hillary would win the Presidency, so we wrote scenes about Diane retiring from the law because she ‘broke every glass ceiling.’ Obviously, we needed to rewrite — on the eighth day of shooting.”
The show will try to provide some commentary on the election using some of the snark and the humor that they are known for, and we hope that it’s something that the majority of viewers out there are able to pick up on rather than thinking that the show is trying deliver some sort of extremely heavy-handed message. We also don’t think that the election is going to end up playing a major role in the overall proceedings, given that the foundation for the series will revolve around Diane’s goddaughter Maia (Rose Leslie) getting wrapped up in a financial scheme that causes her godmother to lose most of her life savings. Following this, the two women end up going to work for a firm that counts Lucca Quinn (Cush Jumbo) as one of its employees.
The new series will premiere on CBS in February, though will eventually move over to the CBS All Access streaming service following that for the remainder of the first season. Hopefully, there will be the viewership on there to sustain the show; we will defend the choice to stream the series in the first place by saying that it wasn’t necessarily guaranteed that CBS would have greenlit the show at all were it meant for the network proper.
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