The Good Fightarrived just when so many of us needed it most.
Alas, the sixth season (premiering Sept. 8 onParamount+) will be its last.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Series creatorsRobertandMichelle Kingtold us the final season will deal withan “upcoming civil war.
Dr. Lyle Bettencourt (John Slattery) and Diane (Christine Baranski) make a connection on ‘The Good Fight’.Elizabeth Fisher for Paramount+/CBS Studios
“What will Diane be doing as society seems to be collapsing around her?
The wonderful thing is that the season starts with Diane coming back from an Italian vacation.
She agreed to step down and take an office downstairs.
Diane (Christine Baranski) stops to smell the sunflowers in ‘The Good Fight’.Elizabeth Fisher for Paramount+/CBS Studios
And she said, “I need a vacation.”
We don’t know what it is.
It’s the result of what’s going on.
Christine Baranski is a vision in red in ‘The Good Fight’.Elizabeth Fisher for Paramount+/CBS Studios
I think we’re addressing that in this season.
How does she manage being sane and conscious?
She seeks out help, oddly enough, through the metaverse.
Audra McDonald and Christine Baranski on ‘The Good Fight’.Elizabeth Fisher for Paramount+/CBS Studios
The first episode is about the metaverse and goggles and an assault that happens in the metaverse.
It’s not about her love affair with taking drugs.
It’s about wanting some kind of release from the madness, frankly.
The man administering the treatment is Dr. Lyle Bettencourt, played byJohn Slattery.
What can you tell us about his relationship with Diane?
He was my first choice.
So there comes Lyle Bettencourt, who shares her literary and cultural preferences.
And they obviously have an attraction.
She finds a release with him.
So we follow that plotline.
We have a couple of photos with Diane in a stunning red ensemble carrying a sunflower.
And there are riot police in the background in one picture.
What can you tease about that?
She’s walking to work, and because of the riots she has to get through a police barricade.
But she’s just been to a florist because her treatments make her kind of see colors more intensely.
There she is in this red coat with all these yellow sunflowers on her way to work.
Diane and Liz (Audra McDonald) had some ups and downs in their relationship last season.
What is ahead for them in the final episodes?
Liz redecorates Diane’s office downstairs.
She says, “You don’t have to be downstairs.”
Diane says, “Actually, I like the corner office downstairs.”
I’m mingling with the associates downstairs and inviting them in for drinks.
You see a lot of a Diane who’s just looser and more relaxed.
She’s going through these treatments because she really wants another view on the world.
The levitation is almost like a metaphor for just trying to see things from a higher ground.
There’s wonderful stuff [this season].
It’s like, what actress gets to have these great actors it’s like a man sandwich.
We have the addition ofAndre Braugher, who came in and did great work.
Diane Lockhart always has such iconic outfits.
Do you have a favorite look from the final season?
But how do I even begin to say what’s a favorite outfit?
Any final teases you could offer?
Robert being Robert, he takes the characters wonderfully whimsical places.
Diane actually does levitate several times over the course of this season.
And there’s some pretty emotional stuff by the end.
There’s a reckoning.
We see a Diane who’s fairly burnt out by the end.
Unfortunately, Roe v. Wade was overturned while we were shooting this show.
you’re free to imagine Diane pretty much saying, “I’m giving up on the law.
It doesn’t work anymore.
The country doesn’t work anymore.
It’s all hype, and the loudest people are running the show.
I can’t do it anymore.”
So we see that Diane is confused once again.
It’s a wonderful full circle.
One day we were shooting an episode that has a memorial service.
The television screen is saying that the Supreme Court has just revoked gay marriage rights.
[The show is] ending in a very poignant and very electrifying way.
