![]() The show even sets us up for this conclusion after Landau is shot and Eli laments, “You come in the world wanting to make a better place, and you end up just making a mess.”īut The Good Fight loves operating in a much grayer area, even if it takes the shine off characters we’re supposed to like. If Eli did indeed authorize a Watergate-like infiltration of Mark Burnett’s office to get those coveted outtakes of The Apprentice - the ones that many Democrats in real life believed would feature Donald Trump using the N-word - and he tasked Marissa with hacking into its computer system, then most shows would end with Marissa telling the truth on the stand and Eli accepting that he has gone astray. That’s a radical stance for a television show to take given the simple morality that usually prevails in situations like the one Marissa is facing. Because losing with so much on the line is unthinkable. You have to be willing to fight dirty to win, even if your soul winds up as thoroughly coarsened as Eli Gold’s. She will finesse her testimony to protect her father, because winning is too important to take satisfaction in merely doing the right thing. That’s what Diane is telling Eli in this moment, and that’s what Marissa takes away from their conversation, which she overhears in the doorway. And we can’t let that happen.” She continues, “Eli, I need you to fight the good fight.” That’s not just galling - that’s the end of America. And our enemies want to stop voting from happening. In her current blissed-out state, Diane lays out the stakes just as Eddie Dodd does: “This country is worth fighting for. He is also facing the prospect of his own daughter, Marissa, giving damning testimony against him on the witness stand or else risk perjury, which would end her legal career nearly as soon as it started. He has just witnessed another Democratic power player - and current legal adversary - Frank Landau, take a bullet to the head that was meant for him. Here, it comes up in a provocative context: Eli Gold, a bare-knuckle Democratic operative, is talking to Diane about possibly ending his career. But whenever the title of a show that has run for six seasons is mentioned explicitly in the dialogue, you have to sit up and pay attention. This is not the first time The Good Fight has evoked True Believer - or the first time I have, either surely Robert and Michelle King, masters of this domain, know the film well. Woods’s defense attorney is focused on winning an acquittal for a client who could have taken a plea bargain but has been convinced to risk a potential 40-year sentence to win at trial. Those are the ferocious words of James Woods in the 1989 courtroom drama True Believer as he brushes off a young legal clerk who suggests that merely fighting the good fight was enough. ![]()
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