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''Series/TheGoodFight'', an {{aftershow}} focusing on Diane Lockhart, streamed on CBS All-Access (later Creator/ParamountPlus) from 2017–22. A second spinoff, ''Series/{{Elsbeth}}'' (starring Creator/CarriePreston, reprising her role from the series), will debut on CBS in 2023.

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''Series/TheGoodFight'', an {{aftershow}} focusing on Diane Lockhart, streamed on CBS All-Access (later Creator/ParamountPlus) from 2017–22. A second spinoff, ''Series/{{Elsbeth}}'' (starring Creator/CarriePreston, reprising her role from the series), will debut debuted on CBS in 2023.2024.
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** Alicia is pointedly not amoral, but by her own admission she gets a thrill out of winning cases and will do whatever she can ''within the law'' to do so, as is an attorney's ethical duty to their client.

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** Downplayed with Alicia herself. She is pointedly not amoral, amoral and, especially in early seasons, often objects to or regrets sketchier legal tactics, but by her own admission she gets a thrill out of winning cases and will do whatever she can ''within the law'' to do so, as is an attorney's ethical duty to their client.
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* PainfulConfession: In "[[Recap/TheGoodWifeS7E10KSR K.S.R.]]", Eli's last-ditch attempt to get back in Peter's good graces backfires [[spoiler:when he finds out that Peter himself was responsible for the election fraud scandal that cost Alicia the State's Attorney race]]. Dejected by this, he goes to Alicia and confesses that he had deleted Will's voicemail LoveConfession to her back in "[[Recap/TheGoodWifeS2E01TakingControl Taking Control]]" to keep an affair from jeopardizing Peter's run for State's Attorney, and apologizes for ruining things for her. Alicia's response is to take the wine glass out of his hand and quietly tell him to GetOut.
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* SoundtrackDissonance: A love scene between Peter and Alicia, with Peter going down on her to the sound of... Creator/{{NPR}}'s ''All Things Considered'' playing on Alicia's radio? In RealLife, that weekend's episode of ''Radio/WaitWaitDontTellMe'' found this hilarious.

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* SoundtrackDissonance: A love scene between Peter and Alicia, with Peter going down on her to the sound of... Creator/{{NPR}}'s ''All Things Considered'' playing on Alicia's radio? In RealLife, that weekend's episode of ''Radio/WaitWaitDontTellMe'' found this hilarious.L
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** [[spoiler:{{Inverted}} in the second episode, where a stripper files a civil action against her rapist after the State's Attorney decides not to prosecute. Alicia loses the case after the DNA evidence is found to be cross-contaminated. However, just as the rapist leaves the court, he's arrested for her rape, as non-contaminated DNA evidence has been found]].

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** [[spoiler:{{Inverted}} {{Inverted}} in the second episode, where a stripper files a civil action against her rapist after the State's Attorney decides not to prosecute. Alicia [[spoiler:Alicia loses the case after the DNA evidence is found to be cross-contaminated. However, just as the rapist leaves the court, he's arrested for her rape, as non-contaminated DNA evidence has been found]].found.]]
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Minor cases all over the place when an AmoralAttorney gets put in their place, but Alicia taking down [[spoiler:Wendy Scott-Carr]] during the grand jury is a classic case.

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