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I was very intrigued by the title of this episode, with it
being Iowa. I never did support Peter’s
campaign for president, but I really enjoyed this episode. With this whole buzz
of presidential candidates, talk of Hillary Clinton, and just the overall
political topics within the dialogue, I thought this would be primetime for a
Diane story arc. I was sad to discover that she was barely in the episode,
which has become a usual thing. Diane has been a Hillary supporter since the
first season and her husband, Kurt, has been a Sarah Palin supporter. With
Hillary being in the presidential race and Sarah just recently endorsing Donald
Trump, I would’ve loved to see Kurt and Diane’s reactions. Kurt has yet to
return to the show this season and that worries me.
I really don’t want to dislike Eli, but some of his actions
are making me think otherwise. I wish he would’ve kept his little secret about
erasing Will’s voicemail from Alicia’s phone to himself. We really didn’t need
another thing for Alicia to get angry about. When I say angry, I mean angry. I
was so shocked when she started throwing plates at Eli. Then, to have Jason
over at her apartment directly afterwards. I just don’t know how to feel about
it.
I did like seeing the whole Florrick family on a bus
together, though they never had a true family scene. I always love to see Zach
and Grace, so that was a treat. This was also the first episode where I
actually liked Ruth. Seeing her have a heart-to-heart with Alicia changed my
views of her character. It was a very intimate moment and I really enjoyed it.
What I didn’t enjoy was Eli trying time and time again to get Alicia to forgive
him. I think it’s going to take an extremely long time for Alicia to forgive
Eli, or maybe she never will.
I thought this episode was quite stereotypical. Several
shots of corn, the really weird Iowa music, and having Peter eat a meat
sandwich in every county he went to was odd to me. I really loved the shady
news crew that was broadcasting every insulting thing that the Florrick’s said
or did that could be taken the wrong way by potential voters. I found it to be
quite comical. I also like the caucusing scene, with Grace really stepping up
in support of her dad.
Storylines came to a bit of a halt with this episode just
because Alicia was away from Chicago. I didn’t think it was a bad episode, I am
just waiting for them to have stand-out episode.
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