It’s a pause but only a temporary one, promise the cast and crew of CBS All Access’ courtroom drama The Good Fight.
In a recently released video song, all those associated with this ‘liberal wet dream’ of a show announced a week’s delay in the release of the current season’s third episode. Instead of the original date set for Ari 23, it will air on April 30.
Not unlike many ongoing productions that were halted by the onset of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, The Good Fight is also faced with a disrupted airing schedule.
But fans need not worry. The filming of at least 7 episodes of the latest season was complete just in time for the global lockdown. It is the post-production that has slowed due to all members currently distributed across the globe and quarantined in their homes.
A liberal dream, on pause again!
For The Good Fight virgins, the show is a modern-day courtroom drama and is a sequel of sorts to the CBS’ The Good Wife.
The show has received praise as well as accolades for making deft use of political themes.
On the one hand, The Good Wife looked at the hypocrisy of liberal values and the nature of moral compromise in personal lives. At the same time, The Good Fight dares to defend the very same values in the bigger picture.
The show was originally aimed at staging a legal drama against the backdrop of Hillary presidency. But following the 2016 elections, its creators had to rethink the premiere.
However, in its fourth season, the show return to the original idea. The gang wakes up to an alternate reality (which is also the title of the first episode).
In this universe, Trump has lost 2016 elections, Hillary has been in office for the last three and half years. And wait-for-it Harvey Weinstein is awarded the Presidential Medal of Honor!
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter about the latest season, co-creator Robert King said,
“The show has always been thought of as a kind of liberal wet dream… but it’s always been looking at it a little satirically. What if they (liberals) got everything they wanted, the zeitgeist would change in a way that wouldn’t necessarily be friendly to a lot of good developments.”
He goes on to add,
“Most people would argue that the #MeToo movement (was) a great development, so the show argues that it wouldn’t have happened if Trump had lost (US Presidential elections) after his “grab ’em by the pussy” comment.”
Conceived by creator-couple Robert and Michelle King, the show begins a year after The Good Wife finale, in which the good wife Diane (Baranski) memorably slapped Alicia (Julianna Margulies) after the latter exposed the former’s cheating husband in court.
In The Good Fight, Diane’s world is once more thrown upside down when she loses all her money to a Ponzi-scheme and is faced with a clean slate.
A heart-warming video song
After premiering on April 9, the second episode of season 4 was dropped as per schedule this Thursday, April 16.
It is Episode 3, which will be held up pushing its release date to Thursday, April 30. In a bid to ease the blow of delay in the airing of as much of a nail-biting season like this one, the show’s cast and crew came together while maintaining social distance to explain the situation a heart-warming video message.
However, within a few hours of release, it was taken down for reasons as yet unknown.
“Hello, from The Good Fight family,” star Christine Baranski said at the start of the video, “We hope you’re well and staying safe during this difficult time.”
The video also features stars Cush Jumbo, Delroy Lindo, Audra McDonald, Sarah Steele, Nyambi Nyambi, and more. From creators, writers, stars, producers to operators, craft services, sound, costume, and music department workers, all chime in to share the various reasons for delayed production.
“Working from home has delayed many aspects of post-production, and we need one week to catch up,” said Nyambi.
In the video, co-creator Robert King said,
“For example, our composer scores the episode in Andora, as our music supervisor adds songs in Texas. They send it all to Los Angeles, where our music editor puts it in the episode.” And added, “They send it to Manhattan to be mixed, and they send it to Santa Barbara to an executive producer.
The video concludes with a rendition of Johnny Cash’s You Are My Sunshine, starting with musician/composer Jonathan Coulton on the guitar and followed by rotating clips of the rest of the team.
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