Good Friday seems like an auspicious day to write about death. There would be many ways to address the issue from a television column like the one in question, including the recent (figurative) deaths of some positions on our public television. But I am going to stick to a kinder variant of death, if there is one: that of fictional characters.
A few days ago it was 10 years Dramatics, your honorthe chapter of The Good Wife that surprised all of its viewers with the murder, in the middle of the trial, of Will Gardner, founding lawyer of the law firm where Alicia Florrick and her romantic interest worked. Josh Charles, the actor who played him, wanted to jump ship and the Kings, creators of the series, felt that the only logical way to get him out of the equation was to kill him. Fiction, the only place where a screenwriter can commit a murder without criminal responsibilities. Now those involved have recounted the course of events in an article for Vulturewhere they quote Women at the edge of a nervous attack as a reference for Alicia's emotional state after this loss.
It certainly provided a boost for the series, which regained its audience and for many refloated narratively. For me it marked the beginning of the derailment of its horizontal plots, which only regained meaning with the slap that Diane Lockhart gave to Alicia in the last chapter. In any case, the Kings continued to demonstrate their mastery until the end in the cases that featured in each episode, the key to any procedural. And where will Will be at this point, after having watched six seasons of The Good Fight and be about to attend the premiere of Elsbethsecond spin-off of The Good Wife that we can see on Movistar Plus+ starting April 23.
Adriana's in The SopranosOmar's in The WireCharlie's in LostRita's in DexterBilly's in Ally McBealMark Greene's in EmergenciesDerek's (and many others) in Grey's AnatomyNate Fisher's in Two meters undergroundTara's in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the red wedding… It will be for devastating deaths in series. In fiction, as in The Passion, creators can also play god, but unlike in life, atheists can always expect a resurrection.
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