There are so many things to dissect in last night’s episode of The Good Wife (check out Ken Tucker’s recap). But naturally, it’s “the phone call” — and specifically, the line Will (Josh Charles) said off-camera that caused Alicia (Julianna Margulies) to respond “Will, don’t say that please” while discussing the post-kiss weird place they’re inhabiting — that I zeroed in on. Since a few of you were also wondering what he said, I asked. According to cocreator Robert King, in their minds, it would be something like this…
(From the top)
Will: We’re in a weird place, I know.
Alicia: It’s okay.
Will: No… I don’t like bein’ in a weird place.
Alicia: I know… Me neither.
Will: When I look at you during the day… I want to know what you’re thinking.
Alicia: Sometimes I don’t even know what I’m thinking… Will…
Will: Yeah.
Alicia: If it had been differently… at Georgetown, if it had been us, and not Peter… we would have lasted a week.
Will: No we wouldn’t have.
Alicia: We would have. It’s romantic because it didn’t happen. If it had happened, it would’ve just… been life.
Will: And what’s wrong with life? I could see that.
Alicia: Will, don’t say that please.
Is it what you expected? I think it’s revealing for Will: He may not give up so easily. For Alicia, it gives her response multiple possible meanings: Does she not want him to talk about them in a real sense because she knows he’s only going to get hurt, because it forces her to think about what could’ve been, or because she doesn’t want the drama of thinking about what could be? We have some time to ponder it — the next new episode airs April 27. In the meantime, read what Josh Charles has to say about the Will-Alicia sexual tension and getting whistled at on the street.
Note to the Good Wife publicist who thinks I have a “Good Wife After Hours show” in my head: I swear I don’t even know how to whistle.
I don’t know why I’m finding these two so compelling. I really don’t want them to get together because I think Alicia would ultimately be very unhappy to be involved with her boss. She loves her job. But, I can totally see how it could happen.
Mandi- I want to thank you for supporting my good wife addiction
I can always count on you to do exactly what the fans would do if they had superpowers the showrunners’ phone numbers.
AND* the showrunners’ phone numbers. …FAIL
Best show on TV right now. Josh Charles, Julianna, Christine, and the rest of this awesome ensemble bring it EVERY week.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I was dying to know what he said all day. I’ve been ranting to friends (most of whom don’t even watch the show – fools) that I absolutely NEEDED to know what he said. How crucial it was to their characters. You’ve saved me (and my friends) and lot of drama.
Ditto! Thanks for the scoop, Mandi. I love that Will’s not giving up.
While that’s not what I imagined he said (my imagination went to a totally different booty call-ish place-don’t judge me-I’m a lonely woman), I find it a very definitive statement. He wants her, and, like Mandi said above, he’s not giving up.
I love that you found this out. I was wondering about it and I definitely like what you were told. I figured Alicia responded as she did because she was trying to distance herself a bit and he isn’t making it easy (which I love). She wants to be a good wife (ha!) but Will complicates things. I’m rooting for them, but I want them to draw out the tension as much as possible (I like the give and take they’ve got going on) because those long lingering gazes he gives her are like heart-stopping crack. And I need more.
‘heart-stopping crack’ is exactly the way to put their relationship’s effect on me. Well said.
“heart-stopping crack” is the most accurate description I can think of to describe the effect the long lingering gazes have on me. Those gazes are a definite turn-on for me & I’m 60+.
This is why I don’t watch the show. I knew from the preview commercials that the ‘good wife’ would fall in love with a notably better man. That means that no matter what Peter does, he’s finished, there’s no redemption, because even if she stays with him out of some sense of duty or conviction, she doesn’t love him any more.
if that is the direction this show is going…. i may have to distant my self before season 2…i really hate having a feeling of dissapoinment of any films or TV shows…not because i’m too hopeful but that feeling really sucks and it stays for a long time…i find tv shows epd TGW or any good movies as an escapade of reality hence you do want happy feelings coming out from it….
I’ve watched every episode from the start, and I must say that your description is so anemic compared to the multi-layered characters, performances, and writing that the show possesses. Your loss…
Tessa, ITA with you. Kim, I couldn’t have said it better. “Heart-stopping crack” is an excellent way to describe their long, lingering gazes. They practically leave me breathless. I’m now addicted to them, and I want more every week.
Nothing like a little unrequited sex to stir up a drama show.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I’ve been dying to know what he would’ve said since the episode ended. While I imagined him saying something else, what he ‘supposedly’ said is so much better.
Best show on TV right now. Just a bit of a pity we have to wait so long for new episodes.
Mandi, this is awesome… thank God for your connections… I didn’t think that we’d ever get an answer to this burning question…
that totally makes sense and puts an extra angle on this. i totally feel for alicia and i love how the show captures the complications of having those feelings. you should have a post-show call and reveal every week!!!
Mandi, you are a champ for finding that out.
“Heart stopping crack” LOL that is an excellent way to put it.
Damn you Josh Charles and your smoldering gazes. I am always left asking myself how Alicia is able to resist not just having him there and then. I am shipping Alicia and Will hard. I LOVE that he says “I could see life” showing that he would have committed then and he certainly would now. Its complicating her life in a wonderful way that I love. lol. Cant wait for that dinner date that he keeps bringing up. They are killing me by not having it already!!
I am so glad Mandi that you are as obsessed with these two as I am. I am also glad to see the rest of the people commenting on here as well.
I too have been talking at nauseam to my sister about this show. I think we all need a support group.
And we have to wait another 3 weeks until a new episode!!!! Thats ridiculous (and potentially ratings damaging if people don’t know when its on…not to me however, I’m obsessed).
I love how Will keeps getting more assertive with his feelings…its good. It was the fact that Alicia came back that night, thats what locked him into this.
Omg I love this show.
Also, a shout-out for Diane this episode and her Republic lover. LOVES IT!