Kalinda Investigates Blake's Car with a Baseball Bat.

(also called: KALINDA: Up to Bat-
bewared the vid on the CBS home page may expire if you happen to search for it there)
KALINDA (played by Archana "Archie" Panjabi) Just ROCKS The Good Wife- An already hot drama, CBS was smart enough to buy; and the second season is Blowing people out of the water - or so I read in comments viewers write....
MS. Panjabi (KALINDA) is beautiful and supremely intelligent, Sly and so many more words... of an Investigator for 'The Firm'.
She always finds her clues and evidence needed to win that case for Mrs. Florrick (Juliana Margulies) And thus; make her the shining Associate.
This week in midst of the program a beautiful piece of Micheal Mann era inspired music and video was inserted into our plot. (a total distraction from everything suddenly for me, I might add)
It was like having cheesecake while still eating the salad - except I want more of the both the salad and the rest of the meal- Actually 'Sons Of Anarchy' on FX in same time slot, is doing something very similar yet for different reasons and appetites.
If Micheal Mann had not done Miami Vice in the early 1980's would we have the impact of music so powerfully woven in our TV and Film as we do now?
If you were not contemporary with and when the Vice series was on, hindsight might skew your answer as to when this convergence of music and film would have happened.
(with the morons that Now and have been running ''MTV" and the now, extinct music video genre gone... Perhaps 2 or more generations of young folks have not felt the passion of seeing an Alice In Chains video from 1992 or anything similar on regular cable TV)
But; One needs only to glance back at the film HEAT[1995] (yes by Michael Mann) and the Scene where Al Pacino gets out of the chopper and chases down Robert De Niro - the most incredible guitar riff... is an adrenaline interlude to the two of them meeting on the side of the freeway. It is song called "New Dawn Fades" Moby's amazing interpretation of the Joy Division tune; simply stuns those of us who love what is- Drop D electric guitar music.... I digress from...
THE GOOD WIFE Tuesday night... KALINDA and her baseball bat, the car radio and those sunglasses.
What is cleaver about the piece, is the car alarm sound: all the while Kalinda is cool and graceful as she performs her task..... listen to find out why.
Well; BRAVO to Kalinda (Archie) and who ever filmed and edited the episode.
AND a special thanks to Mike who posted this to YouTube tonight!






* Please Note: There are more facets to a Micheal Mann film than just my singular reference to how music was used, in what i feel to be a ground breaking series that was Miami Vice. It was the era of MTV and Music Videos, the term "VJ" was coined for those first (and last) Video Jockey hosts, of the variegated and transformative era and mediums.
In no way is my excited reference to Mann's "Vice" totally correct or accurate as would be seen by students of Mann, and those of film theory and cinema studies.
They are just my own influences taken from that era in South Florida itself as well as the TV Series and films created in the historical context of that decade that gave us a rich source of inspiration and transition to whatever has? supplanted Post Modernism....
some call it "Digimodernism"