The Good Wife, which stars Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick has had a good run. Now on its seventh season, producers are entertaining thoughts of "The Good Wife Season 7" spilling over onto a few seasons more. There is a very slim chance that this might happen, but for now writers Robert and Michelle King along with cast and crew are working to bring "The Good Wife Season 7" into its poetic end.
According to E! News, Michelle and Robert King spoke of how their original intent was to write "The Good Wife" into a single season of 13 episodes. "So we really had no thought beyond what those 13 episodes would do," Robert King stated. "And if you go back to the first season...and watch the first 13 episodes it kind of tells a complete story of a husband who goes to jail, the wife who moves on and then him coming back again."
"Having come from screen writing and movies before this it was always thinking in terms of what is the beginning, the middle and the end of a show that could go on years," Robert King continued. "And we pretty quickly thought that the show could only really support, and the story of Alicia Florrick, could only support seven years, so we started to build towards that."
CBS' Glenn Geller spoke about Michelle and Robert King leaving the show after "The Good Wife Season 7" but won't necessarily mean that all will end with "The Good Wife Season 7." Michelle King said, however, that "The Good Wife" going further never had a formalized discussion. "There was conversation with the network, with the studio, with Julianna and really everybody came to the same decision-end with us," Michelle King said. "That to be able to go all together is really what we all wanted."
Perhaps a peek into how Alicia Florrick's story will wrap up was given when Michelle and Robert King spoke of what kind of endings they each go for.
"I like [shows] that end with some resonance. I think some of the best endings of series television [are] 'Breaking Bad,' 'Six Feet Under'...a lot of these shows that I would put as happy and sad at the same time," Robert King said. "I mean there's a mixture, but that doesn't necessarily have any impact on what we're doing. We're just talking in general about series we like."
"Yes, I was going to say in terms of what I admire is when an ending is both-feels inevitable and surprising," Michelle said.
TVLine reports that Will Gardner played by Josh Charles and Kalinda Charma played by Archie Panjabi will not be returning for any of the episodes of "The Good Wife Season 7" but that characters from old episodes may come back to take a final bow.
