The final season of The Good Fight is set in a state of constant protest,with the law firm coming under attack from white supremacists.Credit:Elizabeth Fisher/Paramount+
The Good Fight’s final season was its most surreal. Civil unrest fills the streets below Diane and Liz’s Chicago office,stretching on through all 10 episodes,the faint sirens and chanting ever-present. Simply to get to work,the lawyers must fight through far-right rioters and tear gas. At one point white supremacists target the firm with sniper fire,shattering vases and exploding computers,a mirror of the show’s opening credits sequence – a terrifying and brilliant meta moment.
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Against this bleak backdrop,the main characters weigh whether to fight on. Jay DiPersia (Nyambi Nyambi),the firm’s chief investigator,joins a secret black militia,which captures white supremacists and ships them to an Antarctic jail (where they can stare at white all day). Diane retreats to medical hallucinogens,administered by none other thanMad Men’s John Slattery. Liz doubles down,determined to create the world’s biggest black-owned law firm.
In the end,The Good Fight offered no simple answer to its central question. There is no right way to fight – only an imperative to do so,because progress is not inevitable. Increasingly though,the fight is to hold the ground you thought you’d already won.
Audra McDonald as Liz Reddick and Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart in The Good Fight.Credit:Elizabeth Fisher/Paramount+
We’re given one last moment with Diane and Liz – just before Trump’s announcement – as they walk together through the quiet Chicago night. The street has been cleared of rioters,and the women talk of what comes next.
“We couldn’t have worked any harder for the last six years,and yet things turned out in the shittiest possible way,” Diane reflects,her voice flecked with anger. “That is not true,things can always get much shittier,” Liz counters,drawing one final,unmistakable Diane Lockhart laugh.
The final season ofThe Good Fightis available on SBS On Demand. Earlier seasons are also available on Paramount+ and Stan (which is owned by the publisher of this masthead).