The Good Wife s1e3 You Can’t Go Home Again
Oct 7th, 2009 by Ashley
This episode was very A Few Good Men-y. Matt Czuchry reprised his role as a privileged ivy league kid. Here he played an excessively ambitious junior associate Cary in a law firm who had settled numerous cases without ever going to court once. He’d always been able to work his charm out of a case, just like Tom Cruise did before he was assigned a case with strings (ie. Demi Moore) attached to it. The first time Cary had to address to the court in this episode, he looked timid and unsure, unlike his usual confident and eloquent self. But underneath his cocky and I-have-and-always-will-have-everything-my-way attitude lied a amiable quality in his character. He was willing to learn and he was willing to work hard. While recognizing Alicia as his opponent, he was still able to admire her qualities with an objective eye. Apparently he was not created as a flat, stereotypical villain merely to posed as a work place hazard for the protagonist. I’m glad that as we reached to the third episode, it seemed that there was a story behind Cary. And by the way he was eager to please, to be impressive at the firm, I bet Diane was his mother. We’ll see.