{"id":577196,"date":"2023-06-03T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/script-to-scene-the-good-fight-scribes-detail-the-paramount-dramas-final-moments\/"},"modified":"2023-06-03T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T20:00:00","slug":"script-to-scene-the-good-fight-scribes-detail-the-paramount-dramas-final-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/script-to-scene-the-good-fight-scribes-detail-the-paramount-dramas-final-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"#Script to Scene: \u2018The Good Fight\u2019 Scribes Detail the Paramount+ Drama\u2019s Final Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n There were some high stakes for the final scene of Paramount+\u2019s The Good Fight<\/em> \u2014 itself a spinoff of CBS\u2019 long-running The Good Wife<\/em>. The pressure to close out the saga of Chicago lawyer Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski) was high. \u201cThe intention was to not face-plant,\u201d co-creator and showrunner Michelle King told THR<\/em> in an April interview about the show\u2019s series<\/a> finale, in which Lockhart decides to retire. Adds her writing partner and husband, Robert King: \u201cYou\u2019re always trying to react to where the chemistries exist in the show, and there was so much between Christine and Audra McDonald [who plays Liz Reddick]. Clearly, we thought they were the last two that needed to be on that stage.\u201d The Kings offered a behind-the-scenes look at how they crafted the final moments \u2014 and made one really big prediction.<\/p>\n

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\n This episode is titled \u201cThe End of Everything\u201d \u2014 and, naturally, Diane is facing some existential dilemmas about what to do with her life next. \u201cShe\u2019s got some money now, but the question for her is, do you go off on vacation?\u201d says Robert King. \u201cOr do you try to face the problems of the world, especially when the problems of the world seem so insurmountable? The scene was trying to answer that in an honest way that seemed not to have been answered before, because we don\u2019t want to repeat ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n \u201cLiz is really giving a present to Diane,\u201d says Michelle King of this moment between the two women. \u201cShe\u2019s saying, \u2018You mattered. It may not feel that way in this moment, but you mattered, and what we did mattered.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n

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\n This series of flashbacks featured clients whom Reddick, Boseman & Lockhart represented over the show\u2019s six seasons. \u201cIt seemed like a good way to suggest to Diane that her life is not meaningless,\u201d says Robert King. \u201cA lot of liberals or progressives might [look at the world and think], \u2018Oh my God, how can I face this?\u2019 When in fact what you ignore is all of the people you helped along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n A foreboding countdown clock ticked throughout the final episode. \u201cYou might think it was going toward some burst of violence toward the law firm,\u201d says Robert King. \u201cBut the surprise is that Trump announces his presidential run.\u201d It\u2019s a full-circle moment for the series, which began with Trump\u2019s 2017 inauguration.<\/p>\n

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\n The last episode aired Nov.\u00a010, 2022 \u2014 six days before Donald Trump announced his latest White House bid. The Kings admit they wrote that moment into the show\u2019s final moments weeks earlier in October. \u201cI just felt like Trump would announce after the midterms,\u201d says Robert, while Michelle admits it was \u201cthe most wacky idea imaginable\u201d at the time. But Robert adds that he doesn\u2019t feel particularly psychic when it comes to anticipating the former president\u2019s behavior. \u201cHe\u2019s more predictable than most people. Everybody acts like he veers left when you think he\u2019s about to turn right \u2014 but he\u2019s like any other celebrity you\u2019ve ever met. Highly predictable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n This story first app<\/a>eared in a May stand-alone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n