Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 56 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Don't Talk Too Loud
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 14 | Aired on 03.16.2014
It's not procrastinating. Or rather, it's not just procrastinating. It's a decision tree, going backwards into the past, like following lightning up to the clouds. Not the ones she could make, but the ones she did. Sometimes -- not all the time, but a lot of the time -- without knowing she was making them.
More often, just without admitting it. Which is not the same thing. Which is why climbing this tree, you can almost feel Matthew Ashbaugh in the room, daring her to be brave enough to drown out the voices and feel the steely truth of her life, going all the way back. That's not what the speech demands, but it's what writing the speech is going to demand.
INTERVIEW #2
Same suit, this time in a lobby with two black men and four white ones, which normally wouldn't be something to mention but obviously here it is. The jacket has dowdy lines, but the skirt's knee-length. He greets her without looking up from her résumé:
Dude: "Alicia Florrick, when can you start?"
Alicia: "That is more like it."
On the elevator she's too innocent to even think about it. She jumps for joy.
A man's hand reaches out to hold an elevator door -- over and over again, the moment when her life would change -- and she's a little sad, to remember what happened next.
REAL ESTATE
Off to find her own apartment, now that the job's locked down. When they call her entitled this is a small part of what they are talking about: Why think twice, when life has always been so good? Why on earth would you assume that this bad moment will be anything more than a brief blip?
Lady: "I'm showing you this early but I'm warning you, it's not in your range..."
Alicia: "I have a job now! A magical one out of nowhere!"
Lady: "But seriously, there's a three-bedroom on Fifth that's half this rent..."
Alicia: "No, hell with that. I want this. I deserve this."
SO INEVITABLY
Dude: "Oh, that job I offered you? Turns out it's a paralegal position."
Alicia: "I interviewed as an associate."
Dude: "More like an internship."
Alicia: "What the fuck is going on here?"
Dude: "Your last name is Florrick. The partners don't want you here as an associate. I just want to help by offering you this lame job I can give you."
She gets back on that elevator, in a white suit this time, and has a panic attack. After some hot shamed tears -- then, and now, remembering -- she calls the real estate lady, loathing herself as she begs to get out of the lease.
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