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The Good Fight

Kill all the lawyers.

7.6IMDb345 votesWorth your time
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2017 – 20226 seasons · 60 episodes~50 min per episodeTV-MAEnded
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TV DNA

How The Good Fight actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.

Signature profile

The Good Fight reads strongest on Character Depth, Emotional Weight and Bingeability.

Character DepthDefining9.1

How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.

Emotional WeightStrong6.8

How much the series is designed to affect you.

BingeabilityStrong5.5

How hard it is to stop after one episode.

SerializedStrong5.5

How much each hour depends on the one before it.

Cliffhanger IntensityPresent4.0

How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.

TensionPresent4.0

The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.

SpectacleLight3.5

Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.

World BuildingLight3.5

The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.

HumourLight2.5

How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.

The story

What it's about

Picking up one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of "The Good Wife", an enormous financial scam has destroyed the reputation of a young lawyer, Maia Rindell, while simultaneously wiping out her mentor and godmother Diane Lockhart's savings. Forced out of her law firm, now called "Lockhart, Deckler, Gussman, Lee, Lyman, Gilbert, Lurie, Kagan, Tannebaum & Associates", they join Lucca Quinn at one of Chicago's preeminent law firms.

The run

Seasons

6 seasons · 60 episodes.

  • Official poster for Season 1

    Season 1 · Complete

    Season 1

    201710 episodes

    7.5IMDb

    Due to an enormous financial scam, in which they lost all their savings and reputation, the first season follows Diane Lockhart and her goddaughter Maia Rindell as they are forced to join Lucca Quinn at one of Chicago's preeminent law firms.

    Best episode · S01E01 Inauguration

  • Official poster for Season 2

    Season 2 · Complete

    Season 2

    201813 episodes

    7.7IMDb

    The Chicago murder rate is on the rise, and amidst the insanity, Diane, Lucca, Maia, and the rest of the law firm find themselves under psychological assault when a client at another firm kills his lawyer for overcharging. Following a copycat murder, the firm begins to look at its own clients suspiciously. Meanwhile, Diane battles with a new partner at the firm, Maia becomes tougher after her parents' scandal puts her on trial, and Lucca is brought back into the orbit of Colin.

    Best episode · S02E12 Day 485

  • Official poster for Season 3

    Season 3 · Complete

    Season 3

    201910 episodes

    7.4IMDb

    The world went crazy in the second season, and now, in season 3, the resistance does. Diane Lockhart tries to figure out whether you can resist a crazy administration without going crazy yourself, while Adrian Boseman and Liz Reddick-Lawrence struggle with a new post-factual world where the lawyer who tells the best story triumphs over the lawyer with the best facts. Meanwhile, Lucca Quinn balances a new baby with a new love, and Maia Rindell finds a new Mephistopheles in Roland Blum, a lawyer who is corruption incarnate.

    Best episode · S03E01 The One About the Recent Troubles

  • Official poster for Season 4

    Season 4 · Complete

    Season 4

    20207 episodes

    7.5IMDb

    Season four finds Reddick, Boseman and Lockhart navigating a very different landscape. After their defeats in the previous season, Reddick, Boseman and Lockhart was forced to accept an offer by a huge multinational law firm, STR Laurie, to become a small subsidiary.

    Best episode · S04E01 The Gang Deals with Alternate Reality

  • Official poster for Season 5

    Season 5 · Complete

    Season 5

    202110 episodes

    7.3IMDb

    In the fifth season, Diane is forced to question whether it’s appropriate for her to help run an African American law firm with Liz when the firm loses two top lawyers. Meanwhile, Marissa and the firm become entangled with Hal Wackner, a regular Chicagoan who decides to open his own courtroom in the back of a copy shop.

    Best episode · S05E02 Once there was a court...

  • Official poster for Season 6

    Season 6 · Complete

    Season 6

    202210 episodes

    5.6IMDb

    The final season has Diane feeling like she’s going crazy, struggling with an uneasy sense of déjà vu, with everything from Roe v. Wade, to voting rights, to Cold War aggressions returning. Meanwhile, the lawyers of Reddick & Associates wonder if the violence that they see all around them points to an impending civil war.

    Best episode · S06E10 The End of Everything

Where the series peaks

Best Episodes

The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.

Still from Day 485

S02E12 · Signature episode

Day 485

8.5IMDb12 votes

While on his way to court with Maia and a witness, Jay is being arrested by the police. When Diana and Liz rush to help him out, they discover that it is an immigration issue and federal agents are about to deport him. Meanwhile, Adrian goes back to work.

20 May 201839 min
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S01E01 · Signature episode

Inauguration

8.3IMDb15 votes

After a financial scam destroys the reputation of lawyer Maia Rindell, while wiping out her mentor and godmother, Diane Lockhart's, savings, Maia and Diane join one of Chicago's preeminent law firms.

19 Feb 201749 min
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S05E02 · Signature episode

Once there was a court...

8.2IMDb5 votes

Diane and Marissa find themselves arguing at the Circuit 9 3/4 Court, led by the quirky "Judge" Hal Wackner. Meanwhile, Carmen Moyo proves herself to be an effective, yet underestimated, new associate.

1 Jul 202154 min
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S04E01 · Signature episode

The Gang Deals with Alternate Reality

8.2IMDb5 votes

Diane Lockhart finds herself living in an alternate reality where Donald Trump was never elected and Hillary Clinton is the current president of the United States. While Diane's liberal self is overjoyed, she soon realizes how a different outcome of the 2016 election might have unexpected consequences.

9 Apr 202041 min
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S01E07

Not So Grand Jury

8.1IMDb12 votes

Mike Kresteva takes his case against Reddick, Boseman & Kolstad to a grand jury, but the firm devises a grand jury strategy of their own to hamper Kresteva's efforts. Colin finds himself in an awkward position in court.

26 Mar 201746 min
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S02E08

Day 457

8.1IMDb13 votes

Reddick, Boseman and Lockhart represent an African-American undercover cop, Rashid Clarkson, who was left crippled after being shot by another Chicago police officer in the line of duty. The case's opposing counsel is legend Solomon Waltzer, whose tactics have the firm questioning the legitimacy of his evidence. Diane finds herself at a crossroads with both Kurt and Tully.

22 Apr 201853 min

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