The Good Fight Review: The Gang is Satirized and Doesn’t Like It (Season 4 Episode 4)
There is no such thing as a bad episode of TV featuring Diane Lockhart, but The Good Fight Season 4 Episode 4, “The Gang is Satirized and Doesn’t Like It,” certainly is a long one.
Worse than that, it’s also just boring and that’s saying something for an hour in which Diane wears latex, has a whip, and is gifted a parrot.
It’s so hard to care about anything related to Memo 618 anymore. Neither Diane or viewers are getting answers to that question anytime soon; those scenes are a great time for a power nap.
It is quite amusing that a play called “Cocksucker In Chains” is what inspires Julius to look into the memo again, so credit is due there.
He may not have a choice, but the play is right that he used to strive for truth within the justice system. He’s definitely let a piece of paper get the best of him pretty quickly.
But if the plot moves at all in this hour, it’s an inch, if that.
Brian Neif is bad, he works for STR Laurie, and he has a personal investment in keeping Memo 618 a mystery that his bosses don’t know about. So what?
Even though at times the mystery behind the memo has seemed like a fun one to solve, viewers barely have a reason to care about what it is anymore.
Threatening Diane through Kurt has been done before on the series.
This episode needs an intermission more than the play does. No one at the firm likes it because it’s hard to face our flaws as they are, let alone when they are amplified and manipulated into jokes to be laughed at.
As for its entertainment value, I would watch “Cocksuker In Chains” in its entirety.
Lucca is correct that the partners are giving Duncan Herz poor legal advice because they want a play that makes them into jokes shutdown. So, the lawsuit of the week is hard to get invested in, too.
It’s fun to watch the surreal theme of the season continue when the characters of the play act as the partners’ respective consciences. But Julius is the only person whose story moves forward because of what his fictional conscience says to him.
Diane just gets really good sex out of it, and Liz might get sex out of it in the future. It’s fun to watch, but that doesn’t mean there’s a point.
Hopefully, sex with Caleb will be worth all of the awkward moments Liz is about to have in the office. They’re just foreshadowed for now, but they’re coming.
He’s very attractive, but Liz better take her blinders off and recognize his photographic memory for the asset that it is.
Caleb’s skill isn’t just valuable for catching the opposing council and their clients in lies. He’s already helped Diane fill in missing pieces of the Memo 618 mystery.
If Reddick Boseman & Lockhart isn’t careful they’re going to get so caught up in their own issues they’ll forget that Caleb has been very open about the fact that STR Laurie sent him downstairs to spy on them.
If Liz’s daydreams are any indication, she already has.
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The Good Fight airs Thursdays on CBS All Access.
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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.