Why "The Good Fight" Reshot Its Pilot to Tackle Trumps Surprise Win
This could be really good, and timely. Tweety covered it; I had no idea.
Why ‘The Good Fight’ Reshot Its Pilot to Tackle Trump’s Surprise Win
The creators of The Good Wife spin-off and star Christine Baranski talk how assuming Clinton would win bit them in the rear—but also why the show is now timelier than ever.
Kevin Fallon
02.17.17 1:10 AM ET
When Donald Trump won the presidential election on Nov. 8, the creators, cast, and writers of The Good Fight had a four-letter reaction that mimicked the one its lead character, Christine Baranski’s Diane Lockhart, lets fly for the first time in the show’s first episode.
The new spinoff of the Emmy-winning legal drama The Good Wife, which debuts Sunday night on CBS before moving to its expletive-approving All Access streaming service, was in production shooting its pilot in the days before, during, and after Election Day.
The catch: The series had already written and shot scenes under the assumption of a sure-thing Hillary Clinton victory, and had incorporated it into a major plot point.
In separate interviews, Baranski and series creators Robert and Michelle King, who also shepherded the seven seasons of The Good Wife starring Julianna Margulies, all agree that, if a little frustrating and certainly not the outcome they had desired, the Trump-mandated reshoot made their pilot creatively richer—and the series epically more timely.
The opening scene of Sunday’s The Good Fight premiere—this is a post-slap universe—zeroes in on Baranski’s Diane Lockhart as she watches on her TV, in palpable, wordless dismay, as Trump is sworn in during his inauguration, eventually turning it off in disgust, unable to bear watching it anymore.
It’s a hoot.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/17/why-the-good-fight-reshot-its-pilot-to-tackle-trump-s-surprise-win.html
