We come back in Season 7 through several powerful events where Alicia and Luca work together in a complex court case involving a designer drug dealer. Also, Eli Alicia and Veronica (Stockard Channing) are encouraged to participate in the Mother / Daughter Cooking Show to assist Peter's campaign, with disastrous results. On the other hand, Alicia collides with the bailiff court judge when she agrees to support the patent application from the client in a robbery case. Diane is forced to advise her client to argue against her own beliefs in a case of physician-assisted suicide.
Here, late in its life (season 7!), showrunners Robert and Michelle King Michael and their cast, led by an unfailingly dialed-in Julianna Margulies, refuses to settle for auto-pilot zombiehood.
We blur the edges every now and then, but our core self is both complicated and contradictory, lovely and ugly. There isn't a series that shines a light on those realities brighter than this one.
Funny, smart and more serialized than most CBS dramas, the series remains a minor miracle in this balkanized age, straddling the line between ambitious cable fare and network series that, at least this fall, look determined to party like it's 1995.