Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 88 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT The Privilege of Irony
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.05.2014
Alicia Florrick chooses her words so carefully -- some might say it's her foremost quality -- that to attack her on that basic of a level is to tear her apart. As much as the episode is about "Will uses his knowledge of Alicia's style to disrupt her business" and everybody keeps saying, "Will, you're using your knowledge of Alicia's style against her!" and Will keeps saying, "Don't worry, I'm using my knowledge of Alicia's style" and no matter how on-the-nose it gets, the fact is that it's believable and overwhelming how it actually goes down.
I just want to picture the writer's meeting where they were like, "What's the number one thing Will could use against Alicia that could understandably cause her to go ballistic?" and the perfect, clear answer is this: Get between Alicia and her words, between Alicia and the truth -- don't let her speak that truth -- and she absolutely will go fucking insane. Because it's all she's ever had.
Eventually she whines to the Judge, which is the wrong move but she's literally so glitched by it that she's not even making sense anymore with Rowby's testimony, like they're just babbling at each other, and even the Judge is like, "Yeah, he's being a dick, let's let Cary try and see if Will does this to him." Then Rowby says this thing about how his dad died in August 2011, and he was sad the next anniversary, and he thought it would be funny to see Rick Astley (hence the bowling alley) do a rap song. He's not very eloquent about it, because it's sort of WYSIWYG comedy: Either it's funny to you, or it isn't, so it's hard to explain. He tries, though.
AFTER
Alicia: "That motherfucker is doing this on purpose. My first time in court, I was so thrown by the objections because each one of them made me feel like a bad person. Like by doing something that could be objected to, St. Alicia was not doing her job properly, which felt to me -- as a woman who has been trained since birth to apologize for everything -- like actual arrows going into me. Every objection made me feel like, You are a bad person! Doing a bad job! And now he's working it..."
Cary: "Yeah, girl. He is. So pull it the fuck together."
Alicia: "...I forgot how great you are. Thank you. Good lookin' out, gorgeous."
Cary: "Wait, where are you going now?"
Alicia: "To change."
She's talking about her clothes. Also, she's not talking about her clothes: She will take off the suit she's wearing, but also the suit underneath that. Like Eustace the Dragon, pulling off her armor one layer at a time, because it's not working. She will bring a gun to a gunfight if a gun's required, and that means changing, all the way down. She was treating this like Goliath and David -- she's the giant, he's the sad little boy -- because it served her ego.
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