Things that happen on TV shows are never news. People who care watch the show. People who don't watch the show don't care. See also drag race, lost, breaking bad, so you think you can dance, the voice, survivor, etc.

The tension between Alicia and Will - first romantic, then adversarial competitors - has been the spine of this show. It's hard to imagine how the show survives such a shocking turn, but it will be exciting to find out. It really is one of the best shows on TV currently.

I love this show, and last night took me completely by surprise. It is definitely one of the best shows on television, and by inevitable TV logic it is always near cancellation. I'm looking forward to where it goes next.

(And I'm glad they showed a preview of upcoming episodes, so we could see the characters process their grief a little instead of having to wait a week. It was cathartic.).

My favorite part about it was that it was all self-contained in the single episode. Compare that against the forced drama from last week's Scandal. The shot was fired and they cut to closing credits - I feel that this is too much of a forced play. In The Good Wife, you got to feel the shock of the unpredictable death immediately and without time to deal with the possibility in advance. All of the characters and other storylines on the show just stopped. Their whole world stopped so they could figure out what just happened. That is what happens in real life so many times when death comes by surprise. I hated how I felt, but I loved that I felt it at all. This is truly one of the best shows on Television, and I am glad to have been watching from the start.

@1: They sure post on internet forums about how they don't watch the show(s), though.

The Good Wife is just an astonishingly good show, maybe all the more so because of its place on CBS in the land of comfort food procedurals. Until last night, I would have categorized it as an outlier on that landscape -- reliably entertaining, but still very deeply engaging. Last night's twist was maybe the most shocked I've been by a television show in a long time; the show will be so much less fun going forward but I appreciate the producers' willingness to take such a big risk.

I am personally OUTRAGED that people are having online discussions about shows I don't watch! It makes me post OUTRAGED comments again and again! What a COMPLETE waste of my time! How DARE they waste MY precious time like that!

My daughter is at a point where she's beginning to want to better understand the larger world, where power, money, influence and "doing good" sometimes meet and sometimes don't. I'm using this show as a point of transition for her.

Being originally from the greater Chicago area, the only thing I'd like to see with respect to authenticity is an episode or two that interlaces the trajectory of the characters with the South Side or the rapidly changing suburbs of this city.

I'm DONE WITH the Good Wife I'm so FUCKING CRUSHED!
Of course, I'm not but... why why whyyyyy! They started filming by my Grandpa's house on Grand and this is what happens? Grandpa, you might have to move.

@1: I don't watch the show and I'm reading this. Because so many of my friends posted about it, I was curious.

Your comment is the equivalent of the people who spend all day on Superbowl Sunday posting about how much they hate sportsball and in the process, give it way more attention than anyone actually talking about the game does.