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Those ketamine infusions have been pushing Diane Lockhart outside of her comfort zone on The Good Fight. And an ill-fated scene in this week’s episode — the third of the series’ sixth and final season — would have taken the rigorously professional legal eagle’s chemically-induced evolution to an intoxicating new level.
According to series co-creator Robert King, a sequence in which a super chilled-out Diane turns her office into a makeshift saloon was left on the cutting room floor. “We cut a scene [of] the associates [piling] into Diane’s office because she was pouring out drinks,” the EP revealed on Twitter Thursday. “Diane’s office became a clubhouse.”
As King explained, although the scene was “extremely well acted,” it “delayed” the episode’s A-story involving Charmaine Bingwa’s Carmen. “These episodes are all a juggling act of how long to delay or rush stories,” he shared. “How do you keep momentum up on three or four independent stories?”
In a recent interview with TVLine, Diane’s longtime portrayer, Christine Baranski, admitted that bringing her alter ego down a few intensity notches this season — care of John Slattery’s ketamine whisperer Dr. Lyle Bettencourt — has been “refreshing,” adding, “It may be why I enjoyed this season more than ever. She is deliberately seeking an alternate reality and she found it with this treatment.
“She is light of spirit,” Baranski elaborated. “She is seeing the world through another lens, and I think it’s making her feel a little young and silly. It’s relief to not have [Diane] be angry and frustrated and dark all the time.”
Give me Diane anyday over Carmen. Carmen is the worst!
Yeah, pretty much dead to me after the way she treated Marissa. Not to mention she seems to have very loose ethics. Being indirectly responsible for that bodyguards death didn’t seem to have given her pause.
Really? Clingy Marissa needed to get put in her place, always trying to sponge off another associate. That act got tired of seeing after 5 seasons.
Carmen was straight and honest to Marissa, she didn’t at least chew Marissa’s head off like the fake Judge did last season when he snapped off on Marissa for questioning him. I bet that Judge wasn’t dead to you after you watched that?
I LOVE this show! Going to miss it so much!
Hope CBS has a heart and airs this show on their network. So the fans that make them number one and can’t afford to pay for their streaming get to watch this show.
Sorry, Kings, bad choice: the Carmen A-plot was boring. Would rather have watched Diane’s hallucinations.
I don’t care for Carmen at all
Who else is here wondering what the a-f with the guy who splattered himself over the statue outside Diane’s window?
Is it good or bad let me know please