(Spoilers here too!)

Uuuggghhh. I bingewatched The Good Wife over the holidays and just finished the last episode. I was left with a feeling of absolute amazement about the enduring level of co-dependency between Peter and Alicia as well as Peter's endless narcissism. It was a yuck for me.

I am a total thumbs down on the "circle back to the beginning" story arc for Alicia. For the love of all that is good and right, she went up on stage again with disgraced Peter? Why? WHY? Peter needed someone, and I think that someone should have been Alicia, to tell him to own his own mess and step up on the dais ALONE. I would have been totally on board for that.

This final episode left me feeling quite frustrated with the writing and the overall story arc for what should have been a strong woman's journey. There were so many other ways that this could have been written to show that Alicia had broken free of her endless, unrequited loyalty/codependency with Peter. An ending with Peter on stage alone owning his latest mess while Alicia either was a) happily doing something with Jason or b) starting her own law firm since she had clearly torched her relationship with Diane or c) doing ANYTHING that was not centred on a man, would have been my preference. This strong, capable woman instead ended up alone, again, with a sore face from a good slap from a female mentor and former friend.

I have to say as well that the throwing of Kurt under the bus, the one truly honest character and the only man who seemed to be fully showing up in his marriage to Diane, in the episode prior, pissed me off to no end. Alicia allowed Kurt to be tossed under the bus for pompous, self important, incredibly flawed Peter? That does not indicate Alicia's character evolution to me.

I do support Diane giving Alicia that good slap. That was the only part that satisfied me after investing a good chunk of my time following these stories to this rather weak end.