8.3
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Good Fight (2017)
The Good Fight (2017)
Overview
Picking up one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of "The Good Wife", an enormous financial scam has destroyed the reputation of a young lawyer, Maia Rindell, while simultaneously wiping out her mentor and godmother Diane Lockhart's savings. Forced out of her law firm, now called "Lockhart, Deckler, Gussman, Lee, Lyman, Gilbert, Lurie, Kagan, Tannebaum & Associates", they join Lucca Quinn at one of Chicago's preeminent law firms.
Starring Cast
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Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High
LGBTQ: Positive
Trans: Positive
Christianity: Negative
Islam: Positive
Viewer Rating
8.3
Overview
Picking up one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of "The Good Wife", an enormous financial scam has destroyed the reputation of a young lawyer, Maia Rindell, while simultaneously wiping out her mentor and godmother Diane Lockhart's savings. Forced out of her law firm, now called "Lockhart, Deckler, Gussman, Lee, Lyman, Gilbert, Lurie, Kagan, Tannebaum & Associates", they join Lucca Quinn at one of Chicago's preeminent law firms.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
The show's central thesis explicitly promotes progressive ideology through its direct engagement with contemporary political issues, systemic critiques, and championing of social justice causes, consistently aligning with a left-wing worldview.
The series demonstrates significant commitment to diversity through its intentionally diverse main cast, featuring prominent minority actors in powerful roles. Its narrative consistently and explicitly engages with and critiques traditional power structures, often portraying traditional identities negatively while centering strong DEI themes and advocating for social justice issues.
Secondary
The Good Fight consistently portrays LGBTQ+ characters with dignity, complexity, and agency. Relationships are depicted as normal, and identities are not sources of inherent conflict. The show often tackles LGBTQ+ rights issues through its legal cases, affirming the worth of queer lives and love.
The Good Fight features a storyline with Bianca, a trans woman, as a client fighting for her legal rights regarding frozen sperm. The portrayal is positive, depicting Bianca with dignity and agency. The narrative respectfully explores her identity and the external obstacles she faces, affirming the worth of trans lives and rights within a legal context.
The show frequently critiques the political and institutional manifestations of conservative Christianity, often highlighting hypocrisy, bigotry, or the misuse of faith to justify discriminatory practices. The narrative often positions these portrayals as problematic.
The show consistently portrays Islam and its adherents with sympathy, often highlighting the prejudice and Islamophobia they face in society. The narrative critiques bigotry against Islam, positioning the audience to empathize with Muslim characters.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The Good Fight is a spin-off of The Good Wife. All returning characters from the predecessor maintain their established genders, and new characters are original to this series. There are no instances of characters being portrayed with a different gender than their canonical or historical baseline.
The Good Fight is a spin-off of The Good Wife, featuring returning characters who maintain their original race and new characters created for the series. There are no instances of established characters being portrayed by actors of a different race.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
8.3
7.5
Critic Ratings
9.5
8.0
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