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Should it end in our world?
Decide the world is broken beyond repair and glean whatever pleasure it’s possible for you to still get?
Accept that American government is fundamentally unjust and smash it to bits so you can rebuild something better?
Or, in the language of one of Dianes real-world contemporaries: lean in or lean out?
The riot never leaves.
No one knows who started it; no one knows exactly what its terms are.
What choice do they have?
Except maybe it wont go on for long, because of the violent riot!
The shows penultimate episode was surrealism in the same vein, though more disorientingly compressed than usual.
The tech-billionaire-ex-machina plot offers a way out for all of Dianes problems and Americas!
But then the finale performs a dramatic hairpin turn.
And meanwhile, Diane and Liz circle back to the earlyGood Fightstatus quo.
Its a good place for the show to end.
The series began with Trumps inauguration, and it ends with his probable reelection run.
It strikes a note of alarm, and it registers a touch of the absurdity of the present.
Theres no escape from it.
Not for long, at least.
But it is not a cathartic ending.
Theres no relief to it.
But it has none of the giddy, preposterous satisfaction that madeThe Good Fightfeel remarkable.
Instead, the finales standout scene comes much earlier.
We have a lot of nervous people up here, Liz tells a security officer.
Arepeople getting nervous up here?
Jay asks, when the phone call ends.
Thats whats so weird.
Weve all gotten so used to it.
Its right that Diane Lockhart ends by rededicating herself to the cause.
ButThe Good Fights best role was never to remind people why they should keep fighting.
