The One Where Diane and Liz Topple Democracy
- Episode aired Apr 25, 2019
- TV-MA
- 53m
Diane and Liz deal with a close ally when assigned to a class action case involving malfunctioning voting machines in the 2016 presidential election.Diane and Liz deal with a close ally when assigned to a class action case involving malfunctioning voting machines in the 2016 presidential election.Diane and Liz deal with a close ally when assigned to a class action case involving malfunctioning voting machines in the 2016 presidential election.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBoth Gary Carr and Rose Leslie were on Downton Abbey though on different seasons.
- Quotes
Diane Lockhart: We can't take part in this. It's wrong. Not just illegal. It's wrong. What?
Liz Reddick-Lawrence: No, I'm just-I'm just thinking.
Diane Lockhart: About what? You agree with them?
Liz Reddick-Lawrence: No, but... I think there is an argument to be made here.
Diane Lockhart: For hacking? Are you kidding? That goes against everything we stand for as a democracy.
Liz Reddick-Lawrence: Not everything.
Diane Lockhart: What do you mean?
Liz Reddick-Lawrence: Well there are counties right now where black people are so terrorized that they can't even show up at polls.
Diane Lockhart: That's not what I mean...
Liz Reddick-Lawrence: Look, look, in Georgia, in 2018, a bus filled of black senior citizens was stopped by the police so they wouldn't be allowed to vote. 53,000 registrations of black voters were held up by the Georgia Secretary of State.
Diane Lockhart: Liz, I know. I know that this is...
Liz Reddick-Lawrence: No, no, Diane, you don't. You don't know. We share a lot of things but we do not share histories. I have a college friend who was kicked off the voter roles in Ohio. And my uncle was denied the right to vote in the last election in Wisconsin. I mean, at some point, these stories become more than just anecdotes. There's something bigger. This democracy, that you talk about, this doesn't exist for a lot of us. It didn't exist for my grandparents. It didn't exist for my parents. And it is slowly being taken away from me.
Diane Lockhart: Then we fight it in the courts.
Liz Reddick-Lawrence: Mhm. The courts. The courts that overturned the Civil Rights Voting Act in 2013? So excuse me if I need a moment to reflect on this... unique possibility. One person hits a few buttons and suddenly black voters are re-enfranchised. That means something very different to me than it does to you.
- ConnectionsReferences Friends (1994)
They should have spent more time in the writing room for most of the season 3 episodes. Ep 7 especially. I don't mind you lambasting Trump if you're good at it. Get Michelle Wolf to help. These tepid childish fantasies will engage the thin-skinned hate watching community but it's so forgettable. What's the point?
I'm hoping these seasons are like fringe where they get better and better and not like other shows where they peter out into cancellation.
I'm mostly watching Mrs Maisel, Blacklist, One Punch Man and The Order. The Good Fight's writers used to write as well or better than the above-named shows but these guys have relaxed into this samey, pleonastic, navel-gazing, cheque-cashing, coasting story-arcs that have me stewing in vague but ever-mounting disappointment... I might as well call my mum.
- plotinusmann
- May 2, 2019
Details
- Runtime53 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1080i (HDTV)