Home > The Good Wife > Season 7 « TV Series Page The Good Wife: Season 7 (2015 - 2016) SEASON: Season 7 Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Season 5 Season 6 Season 7 Want to see Episode List Season 7 The Good Wife Critics Consensus Reinvigorated storylines and an even stronger cast keep The Good Wife fresh in its seventh season - and away from the doldrums that overcome many long-running dramas. 100% TOMATOMETER Critic Ratings: 23 80% Audience Score User Ratings: 168 NEW More Info × Close Want to see Super Reviewer Submit Super Reviewer Edit Review Episodes 1 Bond Air date: Oct 4, 2015 Season 7 begins with Alicia attempting to revive her struggling law career by representing arrestees seeking release on bail in bond court. There, she meets attorney Lucca Quinn, who competes for her clients. Meanwhile, Peter brings in a national strategist to help with his presidential campaign, which creates an interesting dynamic with Eli in the process. More 2 Innocents Air date: Oct 11, 2015 Alicia argues a complex museum vandalism case that involves photographs taken by a mother of her son, and considers enlisting the help of investigator Jason Crouse. Meanwhile, Cary deals with partner Howard Lyman's inappropriate conduct towards some younger associates at the firm. More 3 Cooked Air date: Oct 18, 2015 Alicia and Lucca work together on a complicated case involving a designer drug dealer. Meanwhile, Eli persuades Alicia and Veronica to take part in a mother-daughter cooking show to help Peter's campaign, but things don't go as planned. More 4 Taxed Air date: Oct 25, 2015 Alicia clashes with a bond court judge when she agrees to support a client's plea of innocence in a shoplifting case. Meanwhile, Diane is coerced into arguing against her own beliefs in a case focusing on physician-assisted suicide. More 5 Payback Air date: Nov 1, 2015 Jason uses aggressive investigative tactics when he assists Alicia and Lucca with a student loan case. Meanwhile, Howard Lyman alleges ageism at his firm and accuses Cary as the primary offender; and Eli stirs up Florrick family drama on Peter's presidential campaign. More 6 Lies Air date: Nov 8, 2015 Alicia and Lucca defend a client who was fired from a technology firm for failing a polygraph test. Meanwhile, Eli plans to leak something that would damage Peter's presidential campaign but could also inadvertently hurt Alicia. More 7 Driven Air date: Nov 15, 2015 Alicia joins a case involving an automotive executive represented by Lockhart, Agos and Lee, and an employee represented by Louis Canning, who was involved in a crippling accident while test-driving a car operating in driverless mode. Meanwhile, Peter moves back in with Alicia to present a united family image in order to woo a potential campaign contributor. More 8 Restraint Air date: Nov 22, 2015 Diane becomes conflicted when she is forced to argue a heated case between pro-choice and pro-life advocates in order to retain an important client. Meanwhile, Alicia and Lucca, desperate for new business, try to poach clients from Louis Canning. More 9 Discovery Air date: Nov 29, 2015 Alicia and Lucca join forces with Louis Canning to defend a Web site accused of racial profiling. Meanwhile, Eli and Ruth worry about the nature of Alicia's relationship with Jason and how it could impact Peter's presidential campaign. More 10 KSR Air date: Dec 13, 2015 Alicia and Lucca defend a well-respected surgeon who is accused of plotting to commit a crime. Meanwhile, Ruth schemes to remove Jason from Alicia's life by trying to persuade Courtney Paige to hire him for business in another state. More Show More Episodes The Good Wife: Season 7 Photos View All Photos (70) Tv Season Info The seventh and final season of the legal drama opens with Alicia (Julianna Margulies) trying to revive her career after rejecting a proposal from Canning (Michael J. Fox) to come work with him. She's working as a bar attorney in bond court while also trying to find her own clients, but is ultimately being used by Canning himself as a pawn in his fight against Diane (Christine Baranski) and Cary (Matt Czuchry) from her old firm. Peter (Chris Noth) decides to launch his campaign for vice president, hires Eli (Alan Cumming) as his chief of staff and asks Alicia to help him; things don't go very smoothly, however, and he ends up with a new chief of staff, Ruth Eastman (Margo Martindale), while Alicia and Eli start working on their own parallel campaign. Rounding up the team are two new entries: Lucca Quinn (Cush Jumbo), a fellow attorney who befriends and ultimately partners with Alicia; and Jason Crouse (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), an investigator with whom Alicia starts a valuable professional relationship. Genre: Drama Network: CBS Premiere Date: Oct 4, 2015 Creators: Michelle King, Robert King Exec. Producers: Ridley Scott, Michelle King, Dee Johnson, David Zucker, Robert King Cast Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick Chris Noth as Peter Florrick Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart Matt Czuchry as Cary Agos Graham Phillips as Zach Florrick Makenzie Vega as Grace Florrick Mary Beth Peil as Jackie Florrick Alan Cumming as Eli Gold Zach Grenier as David Lee Cush Jumbo as Lucca Quinn Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Jason Crouse Margo Martindale as Ruth Eastman Jerry Adler as Howard Lyman Archie Panjabi as Kalinda Sharma Michael J. Fox as Louis J. Canning Sarah Steele as Marissa Gold Christopher McDonald as Judge Don Schakowsky Nicole Roderick as Nora Matthew J. Morrison as Connor Fox Nikki M. James as Monica Timmons Vanessa L. Williams as Courtney Boalt Will Patton as Mike Tascioni Peter Gallagher as Ethan Carver Chris Butler as Matan Brody Stockard Channing as Veronica Loy Gary Cole as Kurt McVeigh Mike Pniewski as Frank Landau Michael Urie as Stephen Dinovera John Magaro as Roland Tobias Segal as Tyler Hopkins Brian Muller as Brian Carter Damian Young as Clinton Foyle Dallas Roberts as Owen Cavanaugh Christine Lahti as Andrea Stevens Phillip Shinn as Dirk Kelly Bishop as Bea Wilson Dominic Chianese as Judge Michael Marx Mo Rocca as Ted Willoughby Kurt Fuller as Judge Peter Dunaway Megan Hilty as Holly Westfall Zach Woods as Jeff Dellinger Howard McGillin as Lloyd Garber Richard Masur as Geoffrey Solomon Rob Bartlett as Bernie Bukovitz Joey Slotnick as Anthony Dudewitz Haynes Thigpen as Jonathan Mattis Matthew Goode as Finn Polmar Amy Irving as Phyllis Zovatto Denis O'Hare as Judge Charles Abernathy Michael Mulheren as Dr. Douglas Dooley Carrie Preston as Elsbeth Tascioni Mamie Gummer as Nancy Crozier Grace Rex as Martha Reed Richard Portnow as Judge Ben Margovski David Krumholtz as Josh Mariner Daniel J. Watts as Clayton Riggs Jane Curtin as Judge Farley Matthew Lillard as Rowby Canton Francesca Carpanini as Imogen Stowe Blair Underwood as Harry Dargis David Paymer as Judge Richard Cuesta Korey Jackson as Carl Wolfe Patrick Breen as Capt. Terrence Hicks J. Smith-Cameron as Samara Steel Christian Borle as Carter Schmidt Celia Keenan-Bolger as Wendy Searle Orlagh Cassidy as Heidi Jay O. Sanders as Judge Hal Ferris Christopher Sieber as Neil Howard Sloan-Jacobs Becky Ann Baker as Alma Hoff Anna Camp as Caitlyn D'Arcy John Billingsley as Dean Randolph Felix Solis as Det. Kevin Rodriguez Jordan Baker as Sharon Creech John Benjamin Hickey as Neil Gross Renee Elise Goldsberry as Geneva Pine Scott Cohen as Jeffrey Nachmann Dan Lauria as Ronnie Erickson Quincy Tyler Bernstine as Dr. Hallie Fisher Tara Summers as Edie Ham Nathan Stark as Process Server Justine Lupe as Maggie Rossom Isaach De Bankolé as Larry Oliver Adam Langdon as Gary Zuzanna Szadkowski as Gloria Beattie Marsha Mason as Judge Louisa Page Luke Kirby as Harry McGrath Joe Grifasi as Judge John Mata Thomas Kopache as Liam Meade Nilaja Sun Gordon as Divya Feldman Ali Wentworth as Crystal Dosek Nick Mennell as Gino Davidson Leslie Odom Jr. as Barry Pert Daniel Abeles as Don Weingarten Andrea Syglowski as Stacy Groom Chris Matthews as Himself Charlie Pollock as Det. Gifford John Palladino as Scott Pierre-Paul Charles Socarides as Nelson Olstead Jonathan Roumie as Monte Ecklund Drew McVety as Bill Ortiz Chuck Cooper as Gerald Gallo Taylor Rose as Hannah McCreary Johnny Simmons as Erik Zovatto Ron Raines as Graham Stenborg Debra Monk as Tracy Mintz Victoria Clark as Shannon Janderman Michael Chernus as Spencer Harman John Treacy Egan as Carl Peltola Douglas Hodge as Damon Stryk Steven Boyer as Tim Brewster Jason Babinsky as Howell Anthony Mangano as Hal Bob Walton as Dr. Marcotte Burke Moses as Sheriff John Colby Trieste Kelly Dunn as Amanda Marcassin Ashlie Atkinson as Octavia Howe Peter Woodward as Charles Ephraham Marceline Hugot as Edna Nance Williamson as Lila Dunne Erin Wyatt as Mira Dunne Michael Kostroff as Charles Froines Rebecca Harris as Gretchen Luft Bridget Regan as Madeline Smulders Michael Sahr Ngaujah as Joel Becquet Jeremy Bobb as Agent Perry Dunst Shawn T. Andrew as Walt Euan Morton as Irv Bircher John Hillner as Bryant Minster Josh Stamberg as Dr. Joseph Portnow John Finn as Oren Cleary Edward Baker-Duly as Jim Barker Kevin Kilner as Brooks Volk Omar Maskati as Saum Binazir Andrew Dolan as Det. Rick Crowell Lesli Margherita as Mama Jill Lauren Molina as Lucy Van Gaal Tessa Albertson as Sam Ethan Phillips as Dr. Morris Weiner Richard Brooks (VI) as Ace Barnstone Ronnie Farer as Vera Toll Ian Kahn as Randy Duffield Kate Arrington as Emily Parkes Ned Eisenberg as Craig Hallman Judy Reyes as Nola Gades Tyler Gardella as Pizza Delivery Guy Ann Harada as Isabel St. Jean Lynne Wintersteller as Brenda Calbert Danny Burstein as Dr. Ian Caine Kit Williamson as Kip O'Neill Gideon Glick as Blake Reedy Andrew Rothenberg as George Kirby Jonathan Bock as Darren De Meo Beth Malone as Pro-Life Activist Jennifer Van Dyck as Amy Fossbinder Jonathan Bock as Darren De Meo Noah Robbins as Josh Shelby Don Stark as Manny Hofstedter Rodney Richardson as Kermit Corriel Elaine Kussack as Old Woman Mark Lotito as Marty Pintarello Aaron Bartz as ASA Jayne Atkinson as Nora Valentine Sean Cullen (II) as Greg Cady Malika Samuel as Molly Tuff Anna Wood as Kristen Balko David Cale as Dr. Nigel Buggy Tom Alan Robbins as Hank Wilson David Adkins as Harrison Strode Jose Ramon Rosario as Harris Stephanie Janssen as Pro-Choice Activist Tamara Torres as Housewife Michelle Duffy as Patricia Evra Mark Zimmerman as Ned Venters Thomas Jay Ryan as Ed Janoway Darnell Dudley as Damon Ken Marks as Dick Trousdale Stan Carp as Old Man Michelle Duffy as Patricia Evra James Andrew O'Connor as Rick Glenn Larry Cahn as Man Timothy Sekk as Graham Tipton Jennifer Lee Simard as Janie Mullaby Sean Patrick Folster as Sgt. Cole McWain Stephen DeRosa as Sam Handy Stuart Zagnit as Judge Larry Reardon Will Brill as Gray Joseph Alan R. Rodriguez as Delivery Man Jeff O'Donnell as Massoud Tahan/Lance Hopper Nikiya Mathis as Adele Ordonez Jose Ramon Rosaio as Harris the Sheriff Gregory Abbey as Polygrapher Kally Duling as College Girl Fenton Lawless as Surly Harry Jeff Brooks as Clerk Ben Mehl as Wood Hochstadter Sekou Laidlow as Josiah Banner Matt Walton as Ian Gillan Madison Arnold as Older Partner J. Bernard Calloway as Tom Jesse Show More Cast News & Interviews for The Good Wife: Season 7 People’s Choice 2017 Winners Announced Critics’ Choice TV Winners Announced: Game of Thrones, Silicon Valley Win Best Series People’s Choice 2017: Vote Now for Your Favorite Movies, TV Shows and More View All The Good Wife: Season 7 News Episodes 1 Bond Air date: Oct 4, 2015 Season 7 begins with Alicia attempting to revive her struggling law career by representing arrestees seeking release on bail in bond court. There, she meets attorney Lucca Quinn, who competes for her clients. Meanwhile, Peter brings in a national strategist to help with his presidential campaign, which creates an interesting dynamic with Eli in the process. More 2 Innocents Air date: Oct 11, 2015 Alicia argues a complex museum vandalism case that involves photographs taken by a mother of her son, and considers enlisting the help of investigator Jason Crouse. Meanwhile, Cary deals with partner Howard Lyman's inappropriate conduct towards some younger associates at the firm. More 3 Cooked Air date: Oct 18, 2015 Alicia and Lucca work together on a complicated case involving a designer drug dealer. Meanwhile, Eli persuades Alicia and Veronica to take part in a mother-daughter cooking show to help Peter's campaign, but things don't go as planned. More 4 Taxed Air date: Oct 25, 2015 Alicia clashes with a bond court judge when she agrees to support a client's plea of innocence in a shoplifting case. Meanwhile, Diane is coerced into arguing against her own beliefs in a case focusing on physician-assisted suicide. More 5 Payback Air date: Nov 1, 2015 Jason uses aggressive investigative tactics when he assists Alicia and Lucca with a student loan case. Meanwhile, Howard Lyman alleges ageism at his firm and accuses Cary as the primary offender; and Eli stirs up Florrick family drama on Peter's presidential campaign. More 6 Lies Air date: Nov 8, 2015 Alicia and Lucca defend a client who was fired from a technology firm for failing a polygraph test. Meanwhile, Eli plans to leak something that would damage Peter's presidential campaign but could also inadvertently hurt Alicia. More 7 Driven Air date: Nov 15, 2015 Alicia joins a case involving an automotive executive represented by Lockhart, Agos and Lee, and an employee represented by Louis Canning, who was involved in a crippling accident while test-driving a car operating in driverless mode. Meanwhile, Peter moves back in with Alicia to present a united family image in order to woo a potential campaign contributor. More 8 Restraint Air date: Nov 22, 2015 Diane becomes conflicted when she is forced to argue a heated case between pro-choice and pro-life advocates in order to retain an important client. Meanwhile, Alicia and Lucca, desperate for new business, try to poach clients from Louis Canning. More 9 Discovery Air date: Nov 29, 2015 Alicia and Lucca join forces with Louis Canning to defend a Web site accused of racial profiling. Meanwhile, Eli and Ruth worry about the nature of Alicia's relationship with Jason and how it could impact Peter's presidential campaign. More 10 KSR Air date: Dec 13, 2015 Alicia and Lucca defend a well-respected surgeon who is accused of plotting to commit a crime. Meanwhile, Ruth schemes to remove Jason from Alicia's life by trying to persuade Courtney Paige to hire him for business in another state. More Show More Episodes Critic Reviews for The Good Wife Season 7 All Critics (23) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (0) One of the great things about the finale is that it ends smack in the middle of everything. Sep 21, 2017 | Full Review… Willa Paskin Slate Top Critic As TV critics and surely your parents have told you, The Good Wife is an underappreciated show, in its own class on network television. Oct 6, 2015 | Full Review… Juliet Litman Grantland Top Critic One of the most muscularly plotted, flawlessly performed, and thematically risk-taking network dramas of all time. May 2, 2019 | Full Review… Matthew Eng Tribeca Film The series of the great scripts, the aesthetic elegance and the secondary ones of luxury. [Full Review in Spanish] Jul 13, 2018 | Full Review… Natalia Marcos El Pais (Spain) Now armed with cool intelligence, a weathered savvy, and the kind of controlled ruthlessness that the past six years have built in her, Alicia is an even more interesting underdog than before. Sep 21, 2017 | Full Review… Kevin Fallon The Daily Beast She's come a long way since she wore an Alice-band and towed the line of the goody-two-shoes wife. With Eli knowing where all the dead bodies are, this series will be Machiavellian with a capital M. Jun 14, 2017 | Full Review… Jane Bowron Stuff.co.nz It was redeemed, as happened so often in the show's run, by Ms. Margulies's fierce intensity as Alicia. Sep 21, 2017 | Full Review… Mike Hale New York Times Top Critic I thoroughly enjoyed the season premiere, in part because I was able to check my expectations. Oct 4, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… Lauren Hoffman New York Magazine/Vulture Top Critic Perhaps it was appropriate that we ended the series with Peter emphatically denying that he buried evidence and those advising Alicia saying that he probably did. Sep 27, 2017 | Full Review… Eliana Dockterman TIME Magazine Top Critic The show regained some sense of purpose once it was clear that this season would be its last and the Kings could start writing in earnest towards their planned ending. Sep 21, 2017 | Full Review… Sam Adams Rolling Stone Top Critic View All Critic Reviews (23) Audience Reviews for The Good Wife: Season 7 May 10, 2019 I loved seasons 1 to 6 but I found season 7 a huge let down: messy plot and a very anticlimactic finale, IMHO Roberto D Apr 04, 2019 The Good Wife proves to its viewers and the rest of the world that it is one of the greatest television dramas to air on television. Magnificent Luke G Apr 11, 2017 One of the best Series I've ever had the pleasure of watching! Keith M Aug 12, 2016 Was in love with this show. Season 7 was HORRIBLE. Victoria M Jul 31, 2016 After watching the first six seasons, you've got to watch the seventh; skipping it would feel like skipping the last two chapters of a book. However, that is probably the only reason to watch it. The seventh season transforms everything charming, compelling and noteworthy about the preceding seasons into (essentially) their polar opposite. The first 5 seasons of The Good Wife worked because we loved watching interesting cases, with interesting manipulations/interpretations of the law, against the backdrop of an innocent, principled, person empowering herself, and others, to survive the wrong-doings of others. The last two seasons though (especially season 7) transformed the heroine, and the show, into someone/something almost unrecognizable. The "Felicia" character becomes annoyingly self-pitying, self-centered, and self-aggrandizing. Her political and professional jockeying, coupled with her boring and redundant romantic troubles, feel like the worst of daytime soap operas. Worst, I think, any of the warmness (even to her children) the character possessed had been entirely evacuated. To be plain, their main character simply isn't likable. Not only is she untrustworthy and vapid, she's manipulative and cold. The cases become stale, predictable, and far less meaningful. The supporting cast loose their identities as well and feel unfamiliar in their superficial story lines. All of season 7, there is no one to root for ... and you don't even care. I realize the writers were intentionally trying to "turn her into" (Peter) everything she despised at the beginning; and, perhaps that happens with most people. Yet the message, the entire feeling of the show, went off track. If you liked the first 5 seasons, it wasn't because you wanted to watch a show that proved the world is crap, that all people are crap, that honest politicians can't exist. You didn't like it because you know people can't start over, change their lives, or improve their circumstances. I think you liked it because you hoped for these things; you liked rooting for the characters, liked believing someone could retain their integrity in a world where it's easier not to have any, etc. I think that was the real attraction. The last two seasons were basically a big fat, "they can't", "there's no hope", "everybody sucks and they always will" kind of thing. People compromising their values may very well be the most common and realistic path in the world, and there's plenty of excellent shows about just that very thing. I feel annoyed and confused just because that wasn't the premise of The Good Wife for its first 5 seasons. The story, as they finished it, is nothing but a depressing cliche: A good person can't survive among ruthless people unless they become ruthless themselves. Okay, well, that premise has been really overdone in far better ways than this. I wish they would have ended the show earlier. Kellie W Jun 24, 2016 I loved the 7th series (and series 1-6), and the final episode was stunning. Life isn't always made up of neat and tidy endings and I like the fact the episode didn't go for an easy happy ever after ending. Caterina W Apr 18, 2016 Overall I really love The Good Wife; one of the best network shows in years. But so far -- up to, and including, episode 18, in our case -- this final season has been a major disappointment. Well, for my wife and me, at least, if not for all these incomprehensibly gushing critics! Sure, there's lots of the usual agonizing and hand-wringing, but with very little actually going on, story-wise, compared to previous seasons. For a while it looked like Luca and Jason were going keep things interesting after we lost both the wily Will and the fascinatingly sociopathic Kalinda, but after Luca's impressively high octane introduction as a cute and savvy Bond Court attorney, and Jason's as a smolderingly sexy 'bad boy' investigator, poor Luca has been reduced to going around looking terminally bored and P.O.'ed (and who can blame her!), and poor Jason to going around with that goofy (and supposedly 'knowing'?) grin on his face. In short, it feels like the creators/writers (Michelle and Robert King) have already mentally and emotionally disengaged from their wonderful characters, and are just having them go through the familiar motions, but with precious little of the forward momentum, continuity, and complexity that we're fortunate enough to have grown accustomed to. But maybe they'll manage salvage the season in the last few episodes -- especially that oft-dropped ball : the finale. Some of us out here can only hope so! Martin A Mar 27, 2016 This season is disgusting and every main character is off what they were supposed to be seasons before. Real insult to real long time viewers. Deng P Mar 25, 2016 This is such a boring season! This show used to bring up interesting cases, surprise the viewers with unforseeable punchlines and twists, and really grip our attention. We kept hoping something interesting will happen, but with the exception of the episode about the military action, nothing was positively noteworthy. On the negative side, Veronica entering the bedroom was absurd and ridiculous, the tilting chair was stupid (as was Eli Gold's small office and his listening to the grand jury through the disabled bathroom vent). Also, can you please stop with the porn? Not looking forward to the last few episodes. Your writers have hit rock bottom. Reut G Feb 18, 2016 Will miss her on Sunday nights! Hope kalinda comes back in the series finale. 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