full disclosure: I liked a lot of another show the writers did, the good wife, which this is a lesser spinoff from... they are absolutely libs but not quite aaron sorkin level braindead mostly because their characters are mostly pretty craven and immoral and there isn't the same weird reverence for hard work and institutions or whatever.
(they also did a one season flop set in DC about aliens that was somehow completely apolitical and iirc featured michael moore eating pussy. I watched all 13 episodes of that for some reason. you may or may not want to give them credit for being the first to make an epstein gag on their horny catholic x-files show Evil)
but I did not like the one season of this I watched so this could be pretty bad. will report back at some point. you can find it easily to stream on sketchy video places by searching "good fight s04e01" if you are curious.
In an alternate reality, Diane is delighted that Hillary Clinton has beaten Donald Trump in the 2016 United States presidential election and is now serving as the 45th President of the United States. However, she quickly discovers that this alternative world is not the paradise she hoped it would be when she realizes that the #MeToo movement does not exist and Harvey Weinstein is still a respected movie producer.
:michael-laugh:
The synopsis is underselling it - in this reality, Weinstein is her client (and she bagged him).
I have now watched. As expected it's a pretty weird mix of technocratic fanfic (Liz Warren is on the Supreme Court! The Hillary administration is curing cancer! The scandals are all boring now!) and a reasonable alt-timeline hypothesis (HC winning = no MeToo movement and an overall complacency around sexual harassment because "we have a woman president now we need to get behind and we need women supportive not pissed off") which is all made more difficult to read for intent/iDeOlOgY because it's revealed to be the protagonist's 10-minute knockout dream following a totally this-episode's-plot-unrelated SWAT raid.
John Cameron Mitchell (aka Hedwig) makes a cameo as this universe's Milo Yabbaetc equivalent, now reduced to ironically covering Woody Guthrie on Trump TV with a guitar that says "This Machine Thrills Fascists" because this was written in 2020.
EDIT: Forgot to mention the most questionable element - in alt-world, Hillary has raised corporate taxes to the extent that the law firm has needed to broaden out to entertainment clients like Weinstein and will have to go bankrupt without him. Like....sure, yeah, OK.
Watched the first 11 minutes and had to go do something else. A real...mixed bag .., the best bit so far is Diane listing horrible things Trump did as president in her "dream" (our reality ) leading to this exchange:
"And where were the Obamas in all this?"
(Long pause)
"....they got an overall deal with Netflix."
(All laugh)