Patrick Harbron/CBSThe return of The Good Wife can't come soon enough.
Not only are we waiting to see what happens to Cary, but there's also a possible romance brewing between Alicia (Julianna Margulies) and Finn (Matthew Goode).
"He's very appealing, isn't he?" Christine Baranski, who plays Diane on the CBS drama, says of Mr. Goode. "He's so handsome and so charming."
He sure is. So why haven't Finn and Alicia jumped into bed together?
"Don't you love that it's like the old days, like the old movies where romance is in, what's not said and what's not done?" Baranski teased. "That's truly sexy.
"Look how long they played out, 'Are Alicia and Will ever going to get together?'" she said. "That played out for a long time, that kind of tension between them, the little looks and the little moments…It's that brief encounter where you go, 'Oh, my God!' The audience just longs for that union."
Sleeping together so soon, Baranski said, wouldn't be so satisfying. "If they were just rolling around in bed every week, it wouldn't be the same. It would just be sex," she said.
Baranski also praised how far Alicia has come since Will's shocking death.
"I just think the writing has been so masterful," she said. "To survive the death of a major character like that? If anything, it just energized the show. You see [Alicia] talking to her husband and her kids and you're like, 'She's not pulling any punches! She's not the good girl or the good wife anymore.'"
Alicia is currently running for state's attorney in a race that pits her against a TV politico, played by David Hyde Pierce.
Before the return of The Good Wife on Jan. 4, Baranski will be seen in Into the Woods (in theaters on Christmas Day). She was shooting The Good Wife in NYC at the same time she was filming the musical movie in the U.K.
"I was commuting," she told me. "I commuted back and forth. Producers on both ends worked it out so I cold fly in and out, which I did maybe eight or 10 times from August through Thanksgiving."