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Most people who watched The West Wing were completely aware that the fictitious President Bartlett was a Democrat from New Hampshire. Likewise, The Good Fight openly uses the Trump Administration as a general background character, a convenient antihero. Previous reviews seem to have an issue with the political content of this episode, but how exactly does one be 'fair' without becoming a documentary? After all, this is entertainment...

This episode used two very different cases to show, as Leonard Knox put it, that the law is 'both perfect and incomplete.' Kate Littlejohn is exasperated as she tries a lawyer suspected of killing his wife -but unable to prove his perfect murder. Meanwhile, a witness for Leonard Knox's case is detained by ICE agents on his way out of the courtroom. Tina, the Courthouse Clerk, finds the man's 7-year-old son on the hallway bench and hides him from the ICE agents, as well as contacting the public defenders' office.

Tina has quite a grandstanding conversation with Jay about her roots, which is likely one of the many reasons why people disliked this episode. However, Thurgood Marshall -and the subsequent Marshall Court- that she's referring to is largely responsible for most of this country's civil rights. She also makes the point that if Jay and his family were to try to come to this country today, they would not be welcome here; they would be deported as well. I really liked that she came out and said that because it's something that needs to be said out loud.

Without giving away any more plot points, Tina also explainss that "what America means" has changed throughout history, and it's going to continue to keep changing. "This is America now," she says. The episode appropriately fades out with a Spanish version of Neil Diamond's, "America."

This episode made me want to cry and I think crying over tv is insane. They took a look at some difficult ideas and made some great decisions.

I watched this episode and I felt moved. I thought it looked at a hard and very prevalent subject and made some great points. Then I came here and read some of the other reviews and I wondered. Did we watch the same episode?? But then I realized that we all come into things with our own baggage. That baggage's colors everything we hear and see. It colors how we receive information and how we provide information. I think it was great to see people who are usually on opposite sides come together for a common goal.

But what it all boils down too is one thing. This is JUST a tv show.

I like this series in general but part of this episode was just disgusting. The story line where they are looking to catch a smug, smarmy murderer is fine. The problem is with the story line about the illegal alien being separated from his son. The whole angst of the story is grossly manipulative, hyper emotional and just plain wrong. It conflates legal immigration and illegal immigration and then implies that America is opposed to all immigration. Totally false - we admit over 1 million legal immigrants each year, more than any other country in the world. Our problem is with those who enter illegally. The whole story line was offensive to anybody concerned with the rule of law and the very idea that lawyers and even a senior judge would be complicit in the feel good solution is laughable.

Plausibility goes out the window as For the People loses its tenuous hold on the balance it claims. If they continue down this road a show with good writers and excellent actors will fail. This episode is full of lectures, half truths, and outright lies that fictional license cannot cover. One character actually alleges a child taken during an enforcement of immigration law will be given psychotropic drugs and sexually abused. The good people at ICE should sue.