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T2 WHATS UP! July 28 - August 3, 2019 BY BREANNA HENRY TV Media U pon beginning re- search for the arti- cle you are current- ly reading, the first thing I did was ask my mother if she had ever watched "The Good Wife" or "The Good Fight." She replied to my text message instantly and wrote simply: "Love them both." Per- haps a mom's glowing three- word review isn't typically the thing to set someone on a 10-season-long law-drama television binge, but this is a show that is almost impossible to talk about without mention- ing strong, intelligent and em- powered women, and my mom fits that bill to a T, so why not take her word for it? "The Good Fight" is actually a CBS All Access series, and it wrapped up its third season on the streamer in mid-May. But this summer, CBS itself has graciously started airing Sea- son 1 in a prime-time Sunday slot, which allows new view- ers (and fans who just miss the series) to watch it from the be- ginning. The ninth episode, ti- tled "Self Condemned," airs Sunday, July 28, on the eye net- work, and I, for one, and my mother, for two, strongly sug- gest tuning in to catch Chris- tine Baranski ("Mamma Mia!," 2008) as lawyer Diane Lock- hart, Cush Jumbo ("Vera") as Reddick Boseman & Kolstad law firm associate Lucca Quinn, and Rose Leslie ("Game of Thrones") as Maia, who recently passed her bar exam and got herself and her godmother, Diane, mixed up in a whole heap of trouble. In the very first episode ("Inauguration"), the liberal politics of "The Good Fight" are laid bare, as Diane decides to retire in the wake of Donald Trump's election and prepares to move south for some well- earned rest and relaxation. Unfortunately, a wrench is thrown into Diane's plan in the form of an elaborate Ponzi scheme, and voilà — we have everything we need for one of television's greatest spinoffs. A couple of arrests, a few af- fairs and plenty of bad tweets later, we find ourselves one Cush Jumbo stars in "The Good Fight" Legal eagles continued on page T10 TV FEATURE