Christine Baranski never wanted "The Good Fight," the topical, uncannily prescient legal drama in which she plays high-powered liberal feminist attorney Diane Lockhart, to end on a pessimistic note.
A spinoff of CBS' long-running drama "The Good Wife" intended to anchor the company's then-nascent streaming service (now called Paramount+), the series was set to arrive at the dawn of a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidency, with Diane brought on as an ironic diversity hire at a majority Black Chicago law firm in a post-Obama world. Of course, things turned out differently, and the show gamely pivoted to the tectonic cultural shift of the last six years, leaning into storylines that audaciously skewered the state of U.S. politics — and life — in Donald Trump's America.
For Diane, it's been exhausting. But for Baranski, it's been thrilling.
