By Charlotte Collins· Updated November 9, 2022
If there is any show on television that genuinely captures the feeling of the immediate post-Obama years, it might be The Good Fight. The series, a spin-off of the long-running CBS drama The Good Wife, premiered in February 2017 and follows the work of a fictional Chicago-based law firm. It begins with a shot of Christine Baranski’s Diane Lockhart watching the inauguration of Donald Trump, awestruck. It’s a critical point at which both she and the nation plunge into a sort of freefall, with Lockhart suddenly losing all her savings to a largescale financial scam and deciding to exit her role as partner to instead work for an all-Black firm.
The events of the series closely mirror narratives that have shaped our social and political environment in the aftermath of Trump’s rise to power, exploring issues of fake news, white supremacy, #MeToo, the
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