'The Good Wife' Season 7 News, Spoilers: Stars, Creators Tease Series Finale, Possible Spinoffs
CBS' award-winning legal/political drama series "The Good Wife" is bowing out for good in a matter of weeks.
The show's co-creators, Robert and Michelle King, were joined by cast members Julianna Margulies (Alicia Florrick), Matt Czuchry (Cary Agos), and Cush Jumbo (Lucca Quinn) at the show's Tribeca Film Festival panel on Sunday, April 17.
There, Margulies spoke about receiving the script for the series finale. According to the actress, she couldn't talk about the series finale to anyone after reading the script for the first time. Margulies said she was "emotionally confused" and had so many emotions about wrapping up her character, but after talking about it with her husband and reading the script for a fourth time (while sipping some wine sent by the Kings), she was finally able to digest it.
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As was her custom and for the final time, she sent the Kings a note about her thoughts on the script. "I wrote [the Kings] three lines: 'Nothing but brilliant,'' she said (via Variety).
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Christine Baranski (Diane Lockhart) also spoke about her thoughts upon reading the series finale script. "When I read it, I thought, 'I get it. This is so what the Kings do,'" she told THR. "The Kings always had the ability to write something very complicated and ultimately surprising, and so I just thought, 'I get it.'"
Baranski also responded to the rumors about a possible "The Good Wife" spinoff, saying that a spinoff is something that is always talked about when a show is ending.
"I think it's a way for people to psychology pad themselves…" the actress said, adding that she hopes to be involved in whatever the Kings will be working on after "The Good Wife."
That project may, indeed, be a "The Good Wife" spinoff, as Robert King has confirmed that there may actually be a chance of a spinoff being made. "CBS seems to be very motivated — they like these characters, but they also like the world and all these subsidiary characters, so there may be a chance," he told E! News.
"It's all very preliminary, so we'll see," his wife and co-writer Michelle King added.
"The Good Wife" airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on CBS.
