Good Wife
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Good Wife |
| Original title | The Good Wife |
 | |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 2009-2016 |
| Production company |
CBS Television Studios , King Size Productions, Scott Free Productions, Small Wishes Productions |
| length | approx. 42 minutes |
| Episodes | 156 in 7 seasons ( list ) |
| genre | drama |
| idea | Robert and Michelle King |
| production |
Courtney Kemp , Amanda Segel |
| music |
David Buckley , Danny Lux |
| First broadcast | September 22, 2009 (USA) on CBS |
| German-language first broadcast |
March 31, 2010 on ProSieben |
| occupation | |
Good Wife (Original title: The Good Wife ) is an American drama series that aired between September 22, 2009 and May 8, 2016 on CBS . The series is partly inspired by the scandal surrounding the US politician Eliot Spitzer , who had to resign because of his dealings with exclusive prostitutes . In Germany, ProSieben broadcast the first season from March 31, 2010. Because the ratings were too low, the second season was shown on Kabel Eins from March 11, 2011 .
The broadcast of the seventh and final season began on October 4, 2015 in the US, the series finale aired on May 8, 2016. In Germany, the last season was broadcast from January 10, 2017 by the pay TV broadcaster Fox .
action
The focus of the series is Alicia Florrick, the wife of Peter Florrick, the former State's Attorney of Chicago . He is serving a long prison sentence for misappropriating public funds and accepting benefits (in the form of sexual services from prostitutes ). His wife Alicia is returning to her old job as a lawyer and thus securing a livelihood for herself and her two teenage children.
As a newcomer to a law firm, she first has to find her way back to the legal profession after 13 years and assert herself against her competitor Cary Agos. In private and in public, she has to defend herself against accusations and prejudices regarding her husband. In addition, her former college friend Will Gardner, who is also a co-owner of the law firm she works for, develops a private interest in her. Meanwhile, research has made it increasingly clear that her husband was the victim of a political plot . First of all, it can be achieved through legal means that Peter is released from prison under conditions, including wearing an ankle bracelet .
The case against Peter Florrick will eventually be tried again. With new evidence and a clever defense, allegations of embezzlement and embezzlement as well as influencing judicial proceedings can be refuted. Rehabilitated as a person , Peter plans to make his political comeback - but not without first getting his wife's support. Due to her feelings for Will Gardner, however, this comes under pressure at the public announcement of Peter's renewed candidacy for the office of State's Attorney. For now, however, she decides to stay with her husband and support him in the election campaign. Shortly after Peter reached his destination, she found out about his one-night stand with her friend Kalinda. She then breaks up with him and gets closer to Gardner at the end of the second season.
In addition to the relationship problems that extend over the first and second seasons, each episode describes legal processes in the areas of criminal and civil law. Furthermore, the internal processes, in particular the company policy and the relationships between the people involved, take up a lot of space. In particular, the bankruptcy of the Lockhart / Gardner law firm and the temporary control by an insolvency administrator are causing tension. Peter Florrick is running for Illinois governor . In particular because of his wife, who is very popular with voters, he wins the election by a large margin. It turns out that Peter's election officials rigged the election. Peter can save himself for the time being through clever maneuvers of both a political and a legal nature. A compromising video that was leaked to Will Gardner prior to the election is of particular importance. This initially keeps the recordings secret.
Alicia Florrick founds her own law firm with Cary Agos and other colleagues, which she uses to turn Gardner and Lockhart against her. Gardner in particular feels betrayed. In the middle of the fifth season, the events of Peter Florrick come to a head. A charge of electoral fraud seems increasingly likely. Shortly afterwards, Gardner's client, who was accused of murder, loses his temper in court and shoots around with the gun he stole from a sheriff. Gardner is fatally hit. Alicia mourns long and deep and separates from her husband. However, both want to preserve the appearance of an intact marriage, as this is professionally and politically beneficial for both.
In season six, Cary Agos is accused of helping his client Bishop smuggle heroin. After Kalinda forges evidence, Cary is acquitted. Meanwhile, Alicia's former boss, Diane Lockhart, joins Alicia and Cary's law firm. Alicia runs for prosecutor and wins the election, but is forced to resign when she is accused of electoral fraud. Assistant prosecutor Geneva Pine finds out that Kalinda falsified evidence to obtain an acquittal for Cary Agos. Pine forces Kalinda to gather evidence against drug dealer Bishop. When Bishop is arrested and he suspects Kalinda to be a mole, she has to flee.
After her resignation as a public prosecutor, Alicia starts her own business with the lawyer Lucca Quinn. Since Kalinda is on the run, they work with private detective Jason Crouse, with whom Alicia begins an affair. After Peter Florrick ran unsuccessfully for the office of US Vice President, he will be investigated again for corruption in the second part of the season. He has to resign and agrees to divorce Alicia.
production
The series was produced by Ridley Scott , Tony Scott , Dee Johnson , David W. Zucker , Michelle King and Robert King.
The series was broadcast for the first time on September 22, 2009 by the US television station CBS in the 2009/2010 season. For the first season only 13 episodes were initially ordered, which was expanded on October 7, 2009 to a full season with 22 episodes. The number of episodes was later increased again, so that the first season comes to a total of 23 episodes.
On January 14, 2010, CBS extended the series by a second season, which also includes 23 episodes. On May 18, 2011, a third season was ordered by CBS. In March 2012, CBS announced the extension for a fourth season. In late March 2013, CBS announced the extension for a fifth season. A sixth season was ordered on March 13, 2014.
Since the title The Good Wife could put off potential viewers, the show runners Michelle and Robert King publicly stated that they would have liked a different title.
Cast and dubbing
The German synchronization was created by the synchronous company Cinephon in Berlin under the dialogue director Bernd Eichner for a dialogue book by Ulrike Lau , Bernd Eichner , Claudia Sander, Klaus-Peter crown and Gabi Voussem.
Main cast
| role | actor | Main role (season) |
Supporting role (season) |
Dubbing voice |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicia Florrick | Julianna Margulies | 1-7 | Anke Reitzenstein | |
| Kalinda Sharma | Archie Punjabi | 1-6 | Eva Michaelis | |
| Will Gardner | Josh Charles | 1-5 | 6-7 | Peter Lontzek |
| Diane Lockhart | Christine Baranski | 1-7 | Liane Rudolph | |
| Cary Agos | Matt Czuchry | 1-7 | Dominik Auer | |
| Zachary "Zach" Florrick | Graham Phillips | 1-5 | 6-7 | Christian Pointer |
| Grace Florrick | Makenzie Vega | 1-7 | Lisa Mitsching | |
| Eli Gold | Alan Cumming | 2-7 | 1 | Viktor Neumann |
| David Lee | Zach Grenier | 5-7 | 1-4 | Andreas W. Schmidt |
| Finn Polmar | Matthew Goode | 5-6 | Norman Matt | |
| Lucca Quinn | Cush jumbo | 7th | Anne Düe | |
| Jason Crouse | Jeffrey Dean Morgan | 7th | Charles Rettinghaus |
Supporting cast
Charisma
United States
In the USA, the series was first broadcast on September 22, 2009 on the US broadcaster CBS . The first season finale was shown on May 25, 2010. The second season started on September 28, 2010 and ended on May 17, 2011. On May 18, 2011, CBS announced the production of a third season, which was broadcast every Sunday from September 25, 2011 to April 29, 2012.
In March 2012, CBS announced the extension for a fourth season. The fourth season began broadcasting on September 30, 2012 and ended on April 28, 2013. The fifth season aired on September 29, 2013 and ended on May 18, 2014. Between September 21, 2014 and May 10, 2015, the sixth season was shown on CBS. On May 8, 2016, the last episode "End" of the final seventh season could be seen on CBS.
 Broadcasting information and ratings of the series on the original channel CBS
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| Season | Episodes | Broadcast period | Audience ratings | Time slot | source | |||
| spectator | rank | |||||||
| 1 | 23 | September 22, 2009 - May 25, 2010 | 13.12 million | # 18 | Tuesday 10:00 p.m. | |||
| 2 | 23 | September 28, 2010 - May 17, 2011 | 13.00 million | # 16 | ||||
| 3 | 22nd | September 25, 2011 - April 29, 2012 | 11.83 million | # 26 | Sunday 9:00 p.m. | |||
| 4th | 22nd | September 30, 2012 - April 28, 2013 | 10.98 million | # 27 | ||||
| 5 | 22nd | September 29, 2013 - May 18, 2014 | 11.43 million | # 23 | ||||
| 6th | 22nd | September 21, 2014 - May 10, 2015 | 11.40 million | # 30 | ||||
| 7th | 22nd | October 4, 2015 - May 8, 2016 | 10.85 million | # 27 | ||||
Germany
In Germany, ProSieben broadcast the first season in German for the first time between March 31 and October 6, 2010. Despite the good supporting program, the ratings were consistently below the ProSieben average.
The second season was shown from March 11 to August 19, 2011 on Kabel Eins , as the ratings on ProSieben were too low to be broadcast again. After four episodes had been broadcast, it was decided that Good Wife would start on April 29 later in the evening due to weak, albeit more stable, ratings with a market share of between 4.2 and 4.8 percent and thus below the Kabel-one channel average and will no longer run in prime time . On average, the ratings for the second season remained poor with 0.35 million viewers (4.2 percent) of the advertising-relevant target group and 0.56 million (3.0 percent) of the total audience. After the first season on ProSieben and the second on Kabel Eins could not keep the respective channel cut, further broadcasting on one of these channels was considered unsafe.
As a result, the third season between December 11, 2012, and April 9, 2013, the Pay TV transmitter FOX broadcast. The broadcaster sixx showed the season on free TV from February 4, 2014. Between January 28, 2014 and April 8, 2014, the fourth season was broadcast in double episodes on FOX. The fifth season started on January 6, 2015 at both FOX and sixx. In Germany, the sixth season ran from January 19 to March 29, 2016 on Fox and since April 11, 2016 on sixx. The seventh season ran on pay TV channel Fox and is available on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.
Austria
The series has been broadcast on Puls 4 since January 27, 2011 .
Switzerland
The series has been broadcast on SRF Zwei since April 29, 2013 .
reception
Entertainment Weekly chose the fifth episode of the fifth season, Hitting the Fan , at number 3 of its top 10 best series episodes of 2013. Inan article on June 28, 2011, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung described it as an “outstanding lawyer series” and suspected the The series would not be well received because with the synchronization crucial subtleties of the original language would be lost. Brian Moylan of The Guardian wrote in an article dated September 22, 2014: "It's the best show on TV".
Awards
Leading actress Julianna Margulies won a 2010 Golden Globe Award , a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Television Critics Association Award . Supporting actress Archie Panjabi won an Emmy that same year . In 2011 the series won a Peabody Award . At the Emmy Awards 2011, Margulies received an Emmy for best leading actress in a drama series, the series was nominated a total of nine times in 2010 and 2011, making it one of the most successful network series. In 2014 Juliana Margulies won another Emmy for best actress in a drama series. In addition, Carrie Preston received the 2013 Emmy for best guest actress in a drama series for her role as Elsbeth Tascioni.
Spin-off The Good Fight
In May 2016, CBS announced that a spin-off with Christine Baranski and Cush Jumbo had been ordered. In contrast to the mother series, only the pilot episode is to be broadcast on television on CBS, while the remaining episodes will be made available exclusively via the video-on-demand service CBS All Access.
At the start of production on October 31, 2016, CBS announced the title of the series. In addition to Baranski and Jumbo, Rose Leslie , Delroy Lindo , Sarah Steele and Erica Tazel play the other leading roles. The series premiered on February 19, 2017. In Germany it has been broadcast on Fox since November 7, 2017.
Remake
In South Korea , the television station tvN produced a remake of the CBS series. Directed by Lee Jung-hyo . It was the first American television series to be remake in South Korea. The main roles are played by Jeon Do-yeon , Yoo Ji-tae , Yoon Kye-sang and Kim Seo-hyung . The series starts in South Korea on July 8, 2016.
DVD release
The first 6 volumes were released on DVD in the United States from 2010 to 2015, and in Germany from 2011 to 2016.
Web links
- The Good Wife in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official site of CBS
- Official website of sixx
- German episode guide at Serienjunkies.de
- Christian Buß : US series "Good Wife" - Learning from Hillary means learning to win . Spiegel Online . March 31, 2010. Retrieved May 14, 2010.
- Christian Junklewitz: The Good Wife? The good series! - Review of the first season . Serienjunkies.de. June 6, 2010. Retrieved June 7, 2010.
Individual evidence
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- ↑ Lesley Goldberg: CBS Confirms 'Good Wife's' Final Season With Super Bowl Promo . In: HollywoodReporter.com . February 7, 2016. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
- ↑ James Hibberd: CBS picks up 'NCIS: LA,' Good Wife ' . The Hollywood Reporter . October 7, 2009. Retrieved April 5, 2010.
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- ^ Catriona Wightman: CBS announces 2011-2012 schedule . Digital spy . May 18, 2011. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
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- ↑ Full 2015-16 TV Season Series Rankings: 'Blindspot', 'Life In Pieces' & 'Quantico' Lead Newcomers . Deadline Hollywood. May 26, 2016. Retrieved May 29, 2016.
- ^ Andrea Markhauser: Quota check: "The Good Wife" . Oddsmeter.de . October 8, 2010. Retrieved October 9, 2010.
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