The Good Wife is over. Have you stopped crying long enough to read this story and watch the video above? Take a minute, we'll be here.
Now that the education of Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) is complete, there's something fans need to hear from Robert and Michelle King, the co-creators of The Good Wife. "Thank you for watching," Michelle said.
"Thanks for watching and tell us what you think," Robert said.
Oh, you don't have to tell The Good Wife fans that twice. The finale was a divisive one (let's talk about it here).
The Kings released a video message to fans after the big ending (the slap heard around the world) and also penned a letter about the twists.
"We wanted this series—a series that stretched over 156 episodes—to have some shape, some structural meaning. So after we realized we wouldn't be cancelled after 13 episodes, we started to devise a vanishing point we could write toward. That structure, in our minds, was simple. The show would start with a slap and end with a slap. Each slap would involve Alicia. This would be the bookend. She would slap someone who victimized her at the beginning of the series; and she would be slapped by someone she 'victimized' at the end," they wrote. "In this way, the victim would become the victimizer. This is the education of Alicia Florrick."
At the heart, it's a tragic ending, but not necessarily an unhappy one. "There is hope in the ending too—we believe. Alicia composes herself and marches toward the future. The two slaps to our mind are chapter endings and headings. If the slap that started the series woke Alicia up—helped her overcome her naivety about her husband and the world's corruption—then this second slap wakes her up to her own culpability," the Kings wrote. "The question is what will she do with that?"
And now series star (and a big fan), Cush Jumbo, has a message for fans.
"Don't be sad," Jumbo told E! News at the series final wrap party. "Don't cry. I think it's going to take us all a while to move on. Another show is never going to fill that hole…nothing's ever going to totally fill that hole, but I think they should sustain and fortify themselves with the idea that they were part of something that has affected many other shows and a lot of business in New York. They're part of something special."
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