Review: The Good Fight, "The End of the Yips" | Season 6, Episode 2
Like Eli told Marissa in the third grade: Life is hard because people are assholes
“The End of the Yips” doesn’t make us wait long for the other shoe to drop. Eli Gold walks into the building spitting into his phone “Fuck you and your fucking defund the police bullshit!”, then gives a withering glance to the fake grenade that gets tossed into the elevator. For Diane, the grenade stunt was a near-death experience that she worries might affect her experience under hallucinogenic therapy. Eli, though, transcends the existential disquiet that defines life in the Reddick Lane offices. God bless him.
Let’s stay with Marissa and Eli for a bit, because their plotline allows me to talk about this week’s trademark TGF delight. Eli offers to second-chair on Marissa’s case to help her get over her yips, and that means eye-rolling at the defense table. And the best kind -- dual synchronized eye-rolling! This show deploys eye-rolling to magnificent effect. I’m sure we haven’t seen the last of this trope, but the Alan Cumming factor really makes this one special.