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The series created by Michelle and Robert King begins with a premise grabbed from the headlines. Alicia, who had been a full-time mom for 13 years, is forced to return to legal practice in order to support her family after her husband, Chicago State’s Attorney Peter Florrick (Chris Noth), is jailed on charges of corruption and having sex with prostitutes. Sex is the downfall of American politicians: they can get away with inventing reasons to declare war on foreign countries, but if they figure in a sex scandal it’s goodbye, career. After all, America was settled by Puritans who fled England because it was too licentious.

I’m more shocked by the fact that after six years, there hasn’t been a Filipino version of The Good Wife. Babaeng pinagtaksilan ng asawa, babangon at dudurugin ang mga kaaway (A woman betrayed by her husband, will rise up and crush her enemies.). Of course in a local version, the wife would not only return to the law but she would defend her husband herself, and it would turn out that the husband never touched another woman. Or if he did, he would get run over by a bus and she would find a better guy.

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