The Good Fight


The Good Fight is an American legal drama television series produced for CBS's streaming service CBS All Access. It was the platform's first original scripted series. The series, created by Robert King, Michelle King, and Phil Alden Robinson, is a spin-off from and standalone sequel to The Good Wife, which was created by the Kings. The first season premiered on February 19, 2017, with the first episode airing on CBS and the following nine episodes on CBS All Access.
The series follows Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart, as she loses her employment after an enormous financial scam destroys the reputation of her goddaughter Maia and Diane's savings, leading them to join Lucca Quinn at one of Chicago's preeminent law firms. The series stars Baranski, Leslie, Jumbo, Erica Tazel, Sarah Steele, Justin Bartha, Delroy Lindo, Nyambi Nyambi, Michael Boatman, and Audra McDonald, and features Paul Guilfoyle and Bernadette Peters in recurring roles. It is executive produced by Robert King, Michelle King, Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Liz Glotzer, Brooke Kennedy and Alison Scott.
In July 2021, the series was renewed for a sixth and final season. It premiered on September 8, 2022.

Premise

A year after the series finale of The Good Wife, an enormous financial scam destroys the reputation of young lawyer Maia Rindell and wipes out the savings of her mentor, Diane Lockhart. The two are forced out of Lockhart, Deckler, Gussman, Lee, Lyman, Gilbert-Lurie, Kagan, Tannebaum, & Associates and join Diane's former employee Lucca Quinn at Reddick, Boseman, & Kolstad, a prestigious African American–owned firm making waves by taking on Illinois police brutality cases. In season two, Diane becomes a named partner at the firm, which takes the name Reddick, Boseman & Lockhart.
The show initially deals primarily with the storylines of its three female leads – Diane, Lucca, and Maia – and contains considerable political and social commentary, exploring topical issues such as the alt-right, the MeToo movement, online harassment, and fake news. As well as starting again in a new firm with its own office politics to deal with, longtime Democrat Diane must navigate a world she hardly recognizes, becoming increasingly troubled by Trump-era politics and the actions of his administration.
Lucca Quinn, a former employee of Diane's, has found firm footing at Reddick, Boseman & Lockhart and is a rising star on the partner track, balancing her dedication to her work and a romantic entanglement with US Attorney Colin Morello, a frequent opposing counsel. Meanwhile, Maia, Diane's goddaughter, is trying to get her legal career off to a good start, while coming under pressure from the FBI over alleged involvement with her father's Ponzi scheme. The firm is also joined by Marissa Gold, a recurring character on The Good Wife, an intelligent and self-assured young woman with Democratic Party connections who becomes their newest private investigator.
Like The Good Wife, the show makes use of an extensive cast of supporting characters, including a recurring stable of opposing counsel, clients, police officers, FBI agents, judges, and politicians. Many are played by well-known guest stars.

Episodes

Cast and characters

Main

  • Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart, who loses her savings after an enormous financial scam and joins Reddick, Boseman & Kolstad, one of Chicago's pre-eminent law firms. In season two, Diane becomes a name partner in the renamed Reddick, Boseman & Lockhart. The firm later becomes Reddick Lockhart.
  • Rose Leslie as Maia Rindell, Diane's goddaughter, who joins Reddick, Boseman & Lockhart as an associate just after passing the bar exam
  • Erica Tazel as Barbara Kolstad, a name partner at Reddick, Boseman & Kolstad who leaves the firm at the beginning of the second season
  • Cush Jumbo as Lucca Quinn, an associate who works with Diane and Maia at Reddick, Boseman & Lockhart. She was made the head of divorce law at RBL in season 3.
  • Delroy Lindo as Adrian Boseman, an attorney who offers Diane a job at his law firm following her financial troubles, and a name partner at Reddick, Boseman & Lockhart
  • Sarah Steele as Marissa Gold, Diane Lockhart's assistant and later an investigator at RBL
  • Justin Bartha as Colin Morrello, a successful lawyer in the US Attorney's office who later becomes the father of Lucca's son and a United States congressman for Illinois' 1st district
  • Nyambi Nyambi as Jay DiPersia, the effective lead investigator for Reddick, Boseman & Lockhart. His storylines include his immigration status, and later suffering from long covid and hallucinations.
  • Michael Boatman as Julius Cain, a managing partner for Reddick, Boseman & Lockhart, and Diane's former partner at Lockhart/Gardner. He later becomes a federal judge. After being pardoned following a wrongful conviction for bribery, he returns to the firm as of counsel.
  • Audra McDonald as Liz Reddick, a former United States Attorney and the ex-wife of name partner Adrian Boseman, who comes to the firm as name partner following her father's death
  • Michael Sheen as Roland Blum, a new attorney working with Maia on a murder trial. The character purports to be a protégé of Roy Cohn and is inspired by Cohn and his acolyte, Roger Stone. Sheen describes him as "devilish," saying "he wants to eat and disrupt and fuck, and poke people."
  • Zach Grenier as David Lee, the sardonic former head of family law at Diane's previous firm, Lockhart Gardner. He is now a partner at STR Laurie, an international firm that has bought Reddick, Boseman & Lockhart.
  • John Larroquette as Gavin Firth, a top partner at STR Laurie
  • Charmaine Bingwa as Carmen Moyo, a new associate at Reddick Lockhart
  • Mandy Patinkin as Hal Wackner, a layman with no legal training who opens a court in the back of a copy shop
  • John Slattery as Dr. Lyle Bettencourt, a physician who provides medical therapy to help Diane to relax
  • Andre Braugher as Ri'Chard Lane, a new name partner installed at the firm by STR Laurie

    Recurring

  • Zachary Booth as Jerry Warshofsky, a funder, along with Tom Duncan, for Reddick, Boseman & Lockhart, who uses computer algorithms to determine which cases the firm should pursue
  • Gary Cole as Kurt McVeigh, Diane Lockhart's husband
  • Corey Cott as Tom C. Duncan, a funder, along with Jerry Warshofsky, for Reddick, Boseman & Lockhart, who uses computer algorithms to determine which cases the firm should pursue
  • William M. Finkelstein as Simon Kassovitz, a conservative Jewish judge
  • Paul Guilfoyle as Henry Rindell, Maia's father, who is a wildly successful financial advisor, phenomenally wealthy and universally loved. He, Lenore, and Maia are the unofficial First Family of Chicago. He is arrested for running a giant Ponzi scheme with Diane as one of his victims.
  • Adam Heller as Wilbur Dincon, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois
  • Chalia La Tour as Yesha Mancini, an attorney who represented Maia in her legal issues stemming from her father's arrest.
  • Jane Lynch as Madeline Starkey, a relentless FBI agent with a quirky personal style who believes Maia to be complicit in her father's scheming
  • Andrea Martin as Francesca Lovatelli, Colin Morello's mother and a controlling influence in his bid to join Congress
  • Tom McGowan as Jax Rindell, Maia's uncle
  • John Cameron Mitchell as Felix Staples, an alt-right gadfly
  • Matthew Perry as Mike Kresteva, a lawyer who, after losing the 2012 Illinois gubernatorial election to Peter Florrick, now works for the US Department of Justice, in charge of an investigation encompassing Diane Lockhart and senior staff at Reddick, Boseman & Lockhart
  • Bernadette Peters as Lenore Rindell, Maia's mother who comes from a tough working-class background and is a natively brilliant financial whiz. She, Henry, and Maia are the unofficial First Family of Chicago.
  • Carrie Preston as Elsbeth Tascioni, a quirky yet smart lawyer
  • Fisher Stevens as Gabriel Kovac, an incompetent small-time lawyer
  • Tyrone Mitchell Henderson as Barry Poe, an equity partner of RB&L and Reddick Lockhart, who specializes in criminal law
  • Heléne Yorke as Amy Breslin, an assistant state attorney and Maia's girlfriend
  • Alan Alda as Solomon Waltzer, a renowned lawyer at a national firm who uses dishonest tactics to achieve his aims
  • Wendell B. Franklin as Captain Ian Lawrence, Liz's husband, a CPD officer. They begin divorce proceedings in the third season.
  • Taylor Louderman as Tara Strokes, a porn star who claims to have had a relationship with Donald Trump
  • Margo Martindale as Ruth Eastman, consultant for the Democratic National Committee
  • Tim Matheson as Tully, a left-wing protester who has a sexual relationship with Diane
  • Rob McClure as Trig Mullaney, an unintelligent recently Trump-appointed judge with very little understanding of the law
  • Mike Pniewski as Frank Landau, a Democratic boss in the Chicago area
  • Keesha Sharp as Naomi Nivola, a news anchor investigating #MeToo allegations who has a history with Adrian. She dates Jay in the third season.
  • Lauren Patten as Polly Dean, a member of Diane's anti-Trump resistance group
  • Tamberla Perry as Charlotte Hazlewood, a judge who serves as adjudicator of the Lawrences' divorce trial and who enters into a relationship with Adrian
  • Kate Shindle as Rachelle Max, a member of Diane's resistance group
  • Hugh Dancy as Caleb Garlin, a junior lawyer at STR Laurie with a photographic memory, sent down to RB&L as the multinational firm's "eyes and ears"
  • Chasten Harmon as Bianca Skye, a wealthy client of Reddick, Boseman & Lockhart who befriends Lucca
  • Wayne Brady as Del Cooper, a television producer who runs Judge Wackner's show
  • Wanda Sykes as Allegra Durado, a lawyer recruited to RB&L by Liz and Diane
  • Tony Plana as Oscar Rivi, a drug lord and client of RB&L
  • Alok Tewari and Anthony Cochrane, as Osman and Winston, two STR Laurie executives who handle the firm
  • Ben Shenkman as Ben-Baruch, a criminal associated with Charles Lester whom Carmen Moyo represents.
  • Phylicia Rashad as Renetta Clark, the leader of a covert organization
  • Daniel Breaker as Randy Elkin, an associate of Renetta
  • Shahar Isaac as Zev Beker, a Krav Maga instructor