The Good Wife Season 3 New Season

The Good Wife S3 (New Season!)
Premieres 5 January, Every Thursday @ 12MIDNIGHT

The Good Wife is back on DIVA Universal (Astro 702)!

Executively Produced by Tony and Ridley Scott (Black Hawk Down), this intriguing recent Emmy award-winning series stars Golden Globe award-winning actress Julianna Margulies (E.R.) as Alicia Florrick, the wife of a scandalized public figure Peter Florrick (played by Chris Noth, Sex & the City), who pursues her original career as a defense attorney after her husband’s very public sex and political corruption scandal.

As an associate at a prestigious Chicago law firm, she joins her longtime friend, former law school classmate and firm partner Will Gardner. The firm’s other partner, Diane Lockhart, appreciates Alicia’s work – and connections – so she and Will choose to award Alicia a full-time associate position over Cary Agos, who later takes a job in the State’s Attorney’s office. Fortunately, Alicia finds an ally in Kalinda, played by Emmy Award winner Archie Panjabi (Bend it Like Beckham), the firm’s tough in-house investigator.

Gaining confidence every day, Alicia transforms herself from embarrassed politician’s scorned wife to resilient career woman, especially for the sake of providing a stable home for her children, 14-year-old Zach and 13-year-old Grace.

When Peter’s conviction is overturned, he wins a re-election bid with the help of image consultant Eli Gold (played by Alan Cumming, Spy Kids). But Alicia and Peter’s marriage falls apart when she discovers that he had slept with Kalinda, who had become Alicia’s friend and confidant. Now, separated from her husband, Alicia may finally allow herself to give in to her feelings for Will.

Don’t let the name fool you: The sensationally scandalous third season of The Good Wife returns on January 5th and it’s too saucy for primetime. Emmy-award winning actress Julianna Margulies plays Alicia Florrick, the wife of a shamed States Attorney who returns to her original career as a defense attorney.

In the third season, Alicia and Will have finally done something about those longing stares but will they have a fairytale ending? Will’s ex, Celeste, (played by House star Lisa Edelstein) makes an appearance with a mission to stir up trouble and remind us all of Will’s not so shiny past. Watch out for Grace’s very kooky tutor and Zach’s revelation that Peter slept with other women.

Hold onto your man! Lisa Edelstein, who we’ve watched as the Dr. Lisa Cuddy on House, has hung up the stethoscope and opened the law books to play Celeste Cerrano, Will Gardener’s ex, for at least three episodes.

Episodes in January 2012

Episode 1: A New Day
¬A new, more confident Alicia takes center stage in defending a Muslim college student accused of assaulting a Jewish student during a campus brawl. At first, the case seems relatively easy – there’s no physical evidence linking their client to the crime, and the trumped up hate crime charge they’re fighting smacks of Peter trying to make a statement during his first week back in the job. When Kalinda finds a photo that seems to prove their client was elsewhere at the time the crime was committed, it appears that Lockhart/Gardner has secured the win. The trial takes a turn, however, when Cary and the prosecution reveal their plan: this new evidence may have exonerated Alicia’s client from the assault, but it makes him the primary suspect in a murder investigation.

Episode 2: The Death Zone
The author of a book about a Mount Everest expedition is being sued for libel, and Lockhart/Gardner is handling his case. The plaintiff claims that the book makes it look like he let a man die near the top of the mountain in order to get to the peak, and his reputation has suffered ever since. After Will gets the case dismissed in US court, though, the plaintiff decides to re-sue in the British courts. Lockhart/Gardner must defend their case again, this time in an unfamiliar judicial system where the burden of proof lies with the defendant. Meanwhile, Eli and Kalinda work together in order to try and uncover a political scandal before it happens.

As part of Peter’s duties as the new state’s attorney, he must find a law firm to handle the county’s civil needs. Diane believe that Lockhart/Gardner has the inside track to win the job, and she’s startled when Peter seems to be setting them up by telling her that the firm will need to submit to a voluntary audit if they want to be considered for the contract. For the first time, the partners of Lockhart/Gardner question Alicia’s true allegance.

Episode 3: Get a Room
¬Will and Alicia are stuck together in a hotel for a week of mandatory mediation in Lockhart/Gardner’s latest case. Their client is suing her doctor for implanting a surgical device of his own design in her back during a medical procedure. She claims she had no idea she was being subjected to experimental medicine and has been in constant pain ever since. Complicating matters is that opposing counsel is Will’s old flame Celeste Serrano (Lisa Edelstein). She knows all his tricks, and her strong connection with Will seems to spark a little jealousy in Alicia. Meanwhile, Eli takes charge of a crisis management case when a batch of tainted cheese leads to a listeriosis outbreak in an elementary school.

Episode 4: Feeding the Rat
Alicia works a pro bono case, defending a man who stands accused of committing murder during a convenience store robbery gone wrong. Even though her client is innocent, a witness has identified him as the shooter. Matters are complicated further when Diane, trying to keep the firm afloat during hard economic times, tells her to plead it out – she wants all of her attorneys on paid cases only. When Diane discovers that Celeste’s old firm has gone under and his former partner is looking for a new place to take her lucrative bankruptcy division, Will attempts to get her on board at Lockhart/Gardner. Celeste, however, has other plans: she wants Will to leave the firm and come work with her.

Meet the Characters

ALICIA FLORRICK (Julianna Margulies)
Alicia’s always been the good girl — the good girl who became the good wife, then the good mum: devoted and struggling not to outshine her husband. With her husband in jail, and after a thirteen-year absence, Alicia re-enters the workforce starting at the bottom as a junior associate. But Alicia is far from a super-lawyer. She loses cases, she makes mistakes, but her saving grace is always her affinity for her clients. She knows what it’s like to be misjudged.

WILL GARDNER (Josh Charles)
A guy’s guy. Will is Alicia’s defender at work. He hired her when nobody else would. He argues with Diane about her capabilities, but it’s partly personal, partly professional. Will sees Alicia is the States Attorney’s Achilles Heel. One of the “Top 50 Chicago Bachelors,” Will makes it all look easy– life, law, sex.

DIANE LOCKHART (Christine Baranski)
A tough and smart feminist. Dresses like a million bucks. The top litigator in town. Diane has deeply held beliefs about the power of women in the workplace. She’s made a slew of life sacrifices in order to shatter the “glass ceiling” for other women; and Alicia, in her mind, was an “opt-out mum”—someone who gave up career to raise a family.

CARY AGOS (Matt Czuchry)
Bright and shiny Harvard grad and Alicia’s competition. Cary only has one ball to juggle—work. Alicia has a half dozen—husband, kids, in-laws, homework, school. Cary is a Machiavellian opponent who always knows what buttons to push. And sometimes, that’s exactly who you need on your side.

KALINDA SHARMA (Archie Panjabi)
An East Indian stunner. Bollywood Erin Brockovich. No-nonsense, independent, a cool temperament, nonchalantly bisexual. She investigates for all the lawyers—Will, Diane and Cary—but she continues to work the best with Alicia, taking her under her wing. As different as the two are, they become good work friends—which is odd for Kalinda; she rarely makes friends.

ELI GOLD (Alan Cumming)
Eli Gold is Peter Florrick’s campaign advisor, one with a reputation as a wartime consigliere. A tough up-from-the-Chicago-streets political in-fighter, he is at his best when it’s dirtiest. He speaks his mind, tends toward the expletive and is a classically trained pianist.

GRACE FLORRICK (Makenzie Vega)
She’s had a harder time than Zach with the post-scandal fallout, partly because she takes the taunts at school more seriously and partly because of her boundless admiration for her father. The higher you hold someone, the farther they have to fall.

ZACH FLORRICK (Graham Phillips)
Shy AV-kid trying to seem tougher than he is. He’s using Peter to make friends at school.

PETER FLORRICK (Chris Noth)
A back-slapping Bill Clinton: smart, funny, calculatedly seductive. Even in prison, he’s still handsome, impressive. Like most ambitious men, he thinks scandal is just a speed-bump on the road to success. We come to like him, but we also continue to be wary of him—and wonder why Alicia doesn’t divorce him. We’re often unsure of Peter’s motives, but we’re never unsure of his love for his kids.