Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 154 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT When You're Weak
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.01.2013
APRÈS-SEXE
Jenna: "That was excellent lesbian sex we had."
Kalinda: "How long were you a beat cop? Do you still have holster scars?"
Jenna: "One would think you'd know that, having just had sex with me."
Ladies: [Chattin' about guns and doing it all sexy style.]
Jenna: "So you realllllly wanna ask me about Damian Doyle, huh?"
Kalinda: "Obviously. Did you think I was here to have sex with you? Were you not tipped off by the five other straight ladies and one tiny gay dude I had sex with on our way here?"
Jenna: "I wish that I could tell you more, but I still like him more than I like you."
Kalinda: "Again, interesting word choice. You won't ever like me, but I will Kalinda you harder than he could ever dream of doing, which equals the same effect."
JACKIE
The Kings said the funniest thing about her, which is that she thrives literally on power and attention, so that now -- with her son as the Governor and no reason to fight anybody -- is the youngest she's ever been in the time we've known her. Like a literal vampire of loneliness. And I just love that idea so much: We see how she's able to pull the schemes she's been pulling lately, and the fight she brings to it, and her amazing outfits (she looks like a million bucks this season) and even this, the way she's rearranging the crèche in Peter's office where Eli can't yell at her about it.
I don't love it for mean reasons, like how pathetic that is -- I don't need a reason to be mean about Jackie Florrick -- and I don't really even love it in my usual way I go on and on about -- feminism through the ages -- but I do like the way the Gubernatorial storyline gives us a fresh new version of Jackie, and it makes sense, and pivots her role in the show, in a way that's actually pretty harrowing. And all of this too because she is the kind of person who stayed married to the Judge: The decision that's so hard for Alicia (or at least she thinks it is, or would like to think of herself that way; it's a branching tree) was never hard for her, because where Alicia lives on her own moral superiority, Jackie takes her sustenance from the reflected halo.
What is to Jackie a virtue -- overlooking the faults in the men we love -- is, again and again, the only misstep that Alicia ever uses to bring the world down around her. If she acted like Jackie, if she didn't push back at least nominally, Peter would cheat on her today. I mean, it just makes the craziest sense. And you can see where, coming from her own fraught maternal relationship of composing herself in the negative space around her messy, sloppy mother, that's a no-fly zone in Alicia's head. And that's before you add her own relationships with her children, and how that reflects back on both of the Florricks, and thence back up. It's a tree that branches, and branches again, sometimes repeating the past and sometimes defining itself in opposition to it; sometimes doing one while pretending, or failing, to do the other.
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