Alicia Florrick is as busy as ever.  She’s trying to keep a steady income coming to her family, help people through her job, and all the while shelter her children from the news and their father’s infidelity.  She’s The Good Wife.

A stripper, Christie, approaches Alicia’s firm seeking damages against Mr. McKeon, a very rich son of a well-to-do Chicago family.  She claims to have been raped by him at his bachelor party.  The McKeon’s lawyer offers $450,000 to settle out of court, but Christie won’t agree to the silencing clause.  She decides to take him to civil court so everyone knows what he did.  After the rape kit gets contaminated, the judge decides to rule in the favor of the defendant even though they had a witness, the other stripper Maura, whose story complied with Christie’s.  As Mr.

McKeon steps out to the press all relieved that he triumphed, he gets arrested by the police and the state attorney.  The state attorney found an uncontaminated piece of evidence that will convict McKeon and Christie is relieved.

Meanwhile, Alicia’s husband may be up for appeal soon.  She has a hard time dealing with his possible homecoming but talks to him and the children about the kids visiting him in prison.  After an altercation with the state attorney, while investigating Christie’s case, photos get dropped off on her doorstep.  The children find them and decide not to show their mom because they know it will hurt her.  Zack (the son) scans the photos into his computer and proves to Grace (the daughter) that their dad’s face was digitally inserted into the photos.

The Good Wife continues to surprise me.  I am not a big fan of drama shows, nor am I a fan of law shows (I can’t sit through Law & Order).  Julianna Margulies is fantastic as Alicia and I’m continually drawn in by the character. Christine Baranski and Josh Charles are brilliant as Diane and Will, Alicia’s superiors.  The raw emotion that runs through this show keeps me coming back and I think it will for you too.