The Good Fight Review: The Gang Discovers who Killed Jeffrey Epstein (Season 4 Episode 7)
The title of The Good Fight Season 4 Episode 7, “The Gang Discovers who Killed Jeffrey Epstein,” is just for shock value. So is the last image of the episode of what we can presume is Epstein’s frozen penis alone on an island — arguably where it should be.
The fact that viewers know The Good Fight cannot resolve the real-life questions surrounding Epstein’s death slightly weakens a good episode.
Liz is right that the gang’s theory makes for a compelling mystery (especially on television), but the location of the frozen penis is about as big a statement as can be made about a real person’s death on a TV show.
It certainly falls in line with the surreal nature of the entire season, and The Good Fight knows that it had to go as far down the rabbit hole it created as possible for the storyline to pay off.
It does, but it’s simultaneously using up time that could be spent elsewhere.
It’s not the episode’s fault that it’s the default season finale. Since it is, I wish some of the fringe on the Epstein plot were trimmed off and dedicated to Julius’ Memo 618 saga.
The accidental cliff is perfect. It could’ve ended with Julius’ arrest, but going a step further to have Diane and Julius suspect the inspector general of being behind Memo 618 strengthens it.
We love rooting for a protagonist who carves his own way out of a metal box with no tools. But it would’ve been nice to see Diane and Julius go through one more step before realizing the metaphorical box is metal.
Reddick, Boseman, and Lockhart’s exact fate is easier to see coming, but it’s another accidentally perfect cliff.
Handing Diane pro bono cases is too good to be true from The Good Fight Season 4 Episode 2, “The Gang Tries to Serve a Subpoena.”
Of course, STR Laurie would add stipulations to the contract to make it harder for RBL to leave. Putting an RBL partner at the head of the pro bono department is a brilliant way to stifle their income from the start.
Reddick, Boseman, and Lockhart should’ve recognized that they were going to be too dependant on STR Laurie as soon as Diane got her new assignment.
It’s a reminder to everyone — even lawyers miss loopholes in their contracts. So, we should be looking at ours very carefully.
But, the idea that Reddick, Boseman, and Lockhart are so distraught by losing twenty percent of their associates is hard to buy. Or, more accurately, it’s hard to care about.
Right now, we only really follow all of the partners, one associate, and the two investigators, unless there is a fight in the conference room.
The special effects telling us each associate’s worth as they argue over Epstein theories and the partners watch is clever, but it doesn’t inspire much care.
Overall, that’s the biggest weakness of an episode that ends with a shot of Jeffrey Epstein’s fake penis.
The partners may be in a rocky spot, but The Good Fight is going to be just fine.
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Esme Mazzeo
Esme Mazzeo is a lifestyle and entertainment journalist from Long Island. When she's not writing for work, she's writing for fun, or searching for something to satisfy her sweet tooth. She thinks rainy days are the best kind of days. Certified night owl.