A New Day (25 Sep. 2011)

Alica goes head-to-head with her separated husband's office in a case involving a Palestinian college student accused of killing a Jew, while also pursuing a new relationship with Will.

Director:

Brooke Kennedy

Writers:

Robert King (creator), Michelle King (creator),

Stars:

Julianna Margulies, Matt Czuchry, Archie Panjabi

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Julianna Margulies	...	Alicia Florrick
Matt Czuchry	...	Cary Agos
Archie Panjabi	...	Kalinda Sharma
Graham Phillips	...	Zach Florrick
Makenzie Vega	...	Grace Florrick
Alan Cumming	...	Eli Gold
Josh Charles	...	Will Gardner
Christine Baranski	...	Diane Lockhart
Chris Noth	...	Peter Florrick
Kelli Giddish	...	Sophia Russo
Omar Metwally	...	Wasim Al-Said
Fred Melamed	...	Judge Alan Karpman
Larry Bryggman	...	Professor Noah Fineman
Satya Bhabha	...	Jimal Mifsud
Tom Reed	...	Amir Al-Zeid

Storyline

While the staff at Lockhart/Gardner adjusts to new realities and relationships, Alicia must put aside distractions in her personal life to defend a Muslim student accused of murdering a Jewish classmate.

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

25 September 2011 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Scott Free Productions, King Size Productions, CBS Productions

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

16:9 HD

Did You Know?

Trivia

At 10.5 minutes, the pre-title-sequence is one of the longest ever in any 1 hour (including commercials) drama series. It takes about 25% of the actual running time.

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Goofs

In the first scene where Diane is viewing the video it is shown on a Mac but when the camera shows Diane speaking to Wasim she is in front of a PC.

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Soundtracks

"The Good Wife theme"
(uncredited)
Written by David Buckley
Performed by David Buckley

User Reviews

The Good Wife- An Auspicious Season Opener ****

Excellent season opener.

Our Matt Czuchry, as Cary Agos, really seems to have matured over the summer. Still, he has that smiling sneer on his face. The guy is vicious and will do anything to undermine Alicia,especially so convenient now for him is that he works for her separated husband. He is cunning. How many people could state in court that Alicia's pursuit was to make sure that a new judge would have to be chosen on the day that Jewish judges wouldn't be in court due to the Rosh Hashanah observance?

Tonight's episode was timely and terrific. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict comes into view and both sides will stop at nothing to get their way. Eli Gold is asked to lead a Muslim drive against bigotry. Jewish leaders yell afoul as Gold himself is Jewish.

Plenty of tensions in Chicago when a Jewish student is murdered on a college campus and in a separate incident, 20 students fight and only 1 Arab student is arrested. Agos soon uses his skills to admit that the student was wrongly arrested, only to show that he was involved in the killing of the Jewish student-Simon Greenberg.

The ending will certainly not satisfy both groups but is quite interesting to say the least.

Something had better be done with Sunday Night football. It ran into the show and those who taped it, lost out. Thank goodness for hulu.com