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
Like, I always think of this Erika Lopez cartoon from the '90s about porn and how sometimes the very second you're done masturbating you're just like, That was so stupid. He needed to get this thing done, and he did it, and now he has enough clarity to be like, "Ugh." Doesn't change the fact that it needed getting done -- or how beautiful, or powerful, it was -- just that when you're done, you go back to the person you were before the fever came over you.
Notable too that, even though LG rescheduled their party to maybe fuck with F/A, the most we see is this conversation: Will, alone at his desk with a glass of champagne, calling to tell Cary their girl's story's over for the night.
So Lemond Bishop approaches Peter -- "I usually vote Republican, but..." -- which meant I had to stop and explain to Alison that I was watching it with, "Yes, you are right about the pattern you have detected, in fact most black people do love the shit out of Peter Florrick, and yes there's a fairly valid reason for that, but it's a long story and it doesn't matter right now except that it gives him extra DNC value you might not understand from just this one episode. Suffice to say that in order to get a corrupt white prosecutor from Cook County elected Governor he'd need to be both married to Alicia Florrick and pretty fucking magical in his own right."
(Verdict: She is now watching the show. I thought it was dicey when the decision tree stuff started, but she said it was the rare thing where knowing it was built from 4.5 seasons didn't diminish the experience in the moment. A thing I've been curious about all season long, as far as the ongoing "best season ever" chatter, and how much of that is due to the accretion of meaning over the course of the series. Verdict, again, no: This is just very good television, either way.)
Eli: "Stop talking to him stop talking to him stop talking to him."
Lemond: "Let's chat some time. About charities!"
Eli: "Look there's Alicia let's go see Alicia."
Donna: "Uh, was that who I think it was?"
Eli: "Keep moving keep moving keep moving."
Cary: "Mr. Governor, Ms. Brazile..."
Eli: "Lemond Fucking Bishop?"
Alicia: "I know, right? LOL."
Eli: "I need a drink, barkeep."
Veronica: "Marilyn Garbanza, why is music coming out of your stomach?"
Mitch: "To remind Alicia of Matthew Ashbaugh, mostly. But also for my demon baby that Wendy Scott-Carr put in there when the moon was full."
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