Review: The Good Fight, "The End of Football" | Season 6, Episode 3
Diane tries kicking ass with a smile instead of [internal screaming]
Diane’s experiments in coping with the turbulence all around her—a condition that keeps escalating with no end in sight—constitute the through-line of this final season. Her descent to the lower floor reminds us of legendary heroes who have braved the gates of hell, or maybe of Persephone who has to return there six months of every year. Not the Christian Hell. a place of torture. More like the pagan underworld: the land of shades who exist as pale reflections of who they once were, unable to cross the threshold into the lands where the living dwell.
What makes Dr. Bettencourt’s office so different, such a haven and refuge? Diane decides it’s color. She wakes up from her latest treatment to find the room suddenly bathed in shades of yellow, a shirtless man still posed in the act of painting, like a model for a Greek sculptor. Instead of the one sunflower that wilted in a day, she buys armloads of flowers (“If you get to the shop before 9 am, they have…