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If TV’s liveliest time slot weren’t already somewhat paradoxically a-crawl with death, last night’s episode of The Good Wife raised the ante on all things terminal. (Fair warning: Spoilers abound from here on in.)
In a truly shocking development—and one that was kept under wraps for months—the creators of CBS’ Emmy Award-winning drama elected to kill off Will Gardner (Josh Charles), a character whose significance is matched only by that of Julianna Margulies’ Alicia Florrick.
Mortally wounded by a stray bullet, Gardner’s death effectively frees Charles to leave the series after 105 episodes, while, in the words of Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King, “propel[ling] Alicia into her newest incarnation.”
In a note to fans, the Kings said that the specter of death “created a new dramatic ‘hub’ for the season,” adding that the impact of Gardner’s murder will “keep the show from slipping into a numbing sameness.”
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