On Disney+, the characters in The Good Fight fight desperately for their cause and convince with a fantastic mixture of wicked satire, nerve-wracking drama and a good dash of unpredictability.
In The Good Fight, the sharp-tongued attorney Diane Lockhart tries to make a fresh start and is confronted not only with the dark side of the legal system, but also with an increasingly tense political mood.
This is what The Good Fight on Disney+ is about
After losing all her savings to the financial fraud of a fellow lawyer, attorney Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski) has to rethink. Instead of a golden retirement, she faces an unexpected new beginning.
Diane moves to a law firm that specializes in police violence in Illinois. Together with her colleagues, the lawyers Maia Rindell (Rose Leslie) and Lucca Quinn (Cush Jumbo) and the firm’s own private investigator Jay DiPersia (Nyambi Nyambi).
Here, Diane is confronted with the harsh reality of her hometown of Chicago and its legal system, and she also has to deal with drastic political changes that affect her work.
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The Good Fight seems like a cheerfully extended middle finger – and is very refreshing
The series is officially categorized as a drama, but it is so much more than that: a wicked satire with clear swipes at a narrow-minded political climate. It is an open social critique of structural discrimination. And a dash of thriller when Diane and her colleagues are increasingly caught off guard by political chaos in the White House when they go to court.
First aired in 2017, The Good Fight often feels like a gleefully extended middle finger to the then newly inaugurated term of office of a certain president in the United States, and is pleasantly refreshing.
The series loves to dish it out and doesn’t hide its political stance, but it also leaves room for its own side to admit its mistakes. Laughing at itself is just as natural a part of The Good Fight as laughing at its opponents.
The question of right and wrong becomes blurred in The Good Fight
Even though the series clearly thrives on the personal entanglements of its characters, who come from a wide range of cultural and social backgrounds (and clash with each other), a large part of the series takes place in the courtroom or the law firm.
Unlike its predecessor, The Good Wife, The Good Fight focuses on the professional lives of its characters. In other words, on what the title already suggests – the attempt to do the right thing, to fight for the right thing. And that is anything but easy in a world in which right and wrong are becoming increasingly blurred in the face of political upheaval.
The series also impresses with a dynamic ensemble that is a pleasure to watch as they verbally go at each other’s throats in the courtroom. This includes more familiar faces such as Rose Leslie, and later Michael Sheen (Good Omens) or Mandy Patinkin (Homeland, Criminal Minds) in a guest role.
Not least, the series has lost none of its topicality as a result of recent political developments and shows in a haunting way how structural discrimination in various forms can become socially entrenched.
