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The Good Fight - Eight Times Diane Lockhart Couldn't Care Less

#ChristineBaranski #TheGoodFight #DianeLockhart #CBSAllAccess There's no getting under the skin of empowered leader and legal powerhouse Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski) and these eight moments prove it. Stream full episodes of The Good Fight, exclusively on CBS All Access.

Christine Baranski Is Astounding on The Good Fight

#TheGoodFight #ChristineBaranski #CBSAllAccess #MichelleKing #RobertKing The way we move through the world often betrays our most intimate selves. This thought leaped into my mind as I walked through my neighborhood on an exceedingly rare spring day in Chicago recently. I found myself studying the people around me.  A mom with a blonde bob pushed a stroller with single-minded determination. A couple held each other so tight, it seemed like they were afraid of floating away like forgotten balloons. A gaggle of black kids on Milwaukee walked with bounce and vigor, as if they were on the verge of dance. Midway through the sixth episode of The Good Fight’s tremendous third season, whose finale aired Thursday, Diane Lockhart’s signature grace is traded for a walk as pointed and cutting as a blade. When we first met her ten years ago on The Good Wife, in the annals of Lockhart/Gardner, Diane was an easily aspirational figure — her grace is undeniable, her intelligence formidable, an

Jordan Peele’s Twilight Zone is worth the return trip

#JordanPeele #TwilightZone #RodSerling  #CBS #CBSAllAccess Though we still use its title as shorthand for the bizarre, dystopian times in which we live, a reboot of  The Twilight Zone  is a dicey proposition. Rod Serling’s classic genre-spanning anthology series has long been a standard-bearer for suspenseful storytelling suffused with social commentary—so long, in fact, that it’s already been reimagined on three previous occasions, including two TV revivals two decades apart and a 1983 feature film from Steven Spielberg, George Miller, John Landis, and Joe Dante. Try as they might, none of those iterations ever recaptured the unnerving magic of the original, not even when CBS, home to Serling’s series, took another stab at it in the ’80s.  Black Mirror   is a worthy enough successor, though its focus is a bit more narrow (mostly techno-nightmares) and its outlook far bleaker. Despite practically being embedded in the public consciousness, for TV creators and filmmakers,  The Twi