Why The Good Wife Is the Most Underrated Show on Television 

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When someone asks me for a recommendation for a new TV show, I never go for the obvious—

—but instead suggest they immediately start watching

which returns for its sixth season this Sunday. Invariably I get a response along the lines of: “

I’ve grown so accustomed to this reaction that I’ve developed a little theory that the biggest hurdle keeping this show from becoming a mainstream hit is its unfortunate title. Doesn’t

sound like a series about a woman who spends her days caring after her husband? But it’s so much more than that. Here are four reasons why, this Sunday, you should give

The beginning of the series kicks off after Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) is left alone to deal with the aftermath of her husband’s (Chris Noth) sex and corruption scandal. And although she initially stands by his side à la Silda Spitzer and Huma Abedin, what comes later is a revelation. After years of leaning out, she goes back to work at a law firm where a woman, Diane Lockhart (played by the elegant Christine Baranski), is a partner. Alicia then climbs her way up the ladder, and later, not content with being offered a partnership at the firm, goes off and starts her own practice. At the end of this last season, she is asked to run for state’s attorney in Illinois. Not only does Alicia dramatize what it’s like to go back to the work force, her former boss, Diane, is exactly the type of career woman there should be more of on television. Diane never once wonders about the family she sacrificed for her career—she’s too busy winning cases and looking impeccable while doing so. No wonder Gloria Steinem is making a cameo in this upcoming new season.

is the complicated and very adult love triangle between Alicia, her husband, and her former college friend and then boss, Will Gardner (Josh Charles). Alicia struggled with the decision to leave her husband (out of love and because she considered divorce a failure) even though there was a tremendous amount of chemistry between her and Will. And even though the triangle has sadly come to an end, the sexual tension in the first few seasons is more compelling than anything on

Basically anyone who has ever been on TV or in a Broadway show has at one point or another appeared on

Michael J. Fox plays a sleazy lawyer who takes shameless advantage of his neurological disease. Stockard Channing is Alicia’s carefree mother who has been married too many times to count. Amy Sedaris is a kooky and unscrupulous lobbyist. Nathan Lane tones it down for once as an uptight attorney. The list really goes on and on.

4. The series is getting better with every season.

Precious few shows actually get better as they progress.

quickly escalated into ridiculous territory by its third season.

lost steam after its first. (Perhaps this is why the makers of

chose quality over quantity, ending the series after only five seasons.) But

has only gotten more interesting and complex. Last season was by far its strongest, and even though it wasn’t nominated for an Emmy for Best Drama Series, at least the ATAS had enough sense to give a Best Lead Actress award to Margulies, who has masterfully evolved her character from good wife to badass over the last five years.

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