‘The Good Wife’ Ends Without a Good Life for Alicia

After seven seasons, The Good Wife finally came to end. The education of Alicia Florrick began seven years ago with a slap. And fittingly, the series finale — where we see her collect her breath, adjust her skirt, stifle her tears, and steel herself to march toward her future — ended the same way.

The slap jarred fans into a collective gasp, ending the final moments of CBS’s crown jewel drama series with a full-circle moment that not many expected. And, as reflected in the conveyor belt of emotions that sped through Julianna Margulies’s eyes in her last seconds as Alicia Florrick, it reverberated with the pain of the past as much as the current sting of reality. But no matter what, Alicia is still the hero of this story. Just a more brittle one.

She wiped her tears away and walked off into her future full, as the Kings say, of more “confidence” and more “strength” than she had seven seasons ago. Her actions had consequences, and she’s irrevocably changed by what she did to Diane. Alicia has put her self-pitying days behind her, and now she’ll go on — a little less human, but no less impressive.

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