THE GOOD FIGHT
CBS All Access, 3:00 a.m. ET
SEASON PREMIERE: Season 4 of this always clever Robert and Michelle King series begins with Christine Baranski’s Diane Lockhart experiencing a second of déjà vu – going all the way back to this series’ premiere episode and its opening scene, when she’s watching election returns that fateful night in 2016, watches Donald Trump become elected president, and screams an f-bomb of an expletive. Except this time, as she watches, it’s Hillary Clinton who wins the election, as well as the popular vote, and her scream, is one of joy. The rest of this opening hour of Season 4 has Diane experiencing more and more of that alternate reality, with a wicked cleverness that is not to be missed. (Even the episode’s climax ends on a punch line that’s an all-time classic.) This episode was written and produced by the Kings long before the current pandemic, but the trip down alternate-universe lane is full of mind-blowing moments anyway. Remember that classic finale to Newhart, when Bob Newhart wakes up back in his old bedroom and life of The Bob Newhart Show, and tells his wife Emily about the weird dream he’d just had – a dream that comprised his “life” in Newhart, yet sounded so absurdly unbelievable in the retelling? Well, wait until Diane tries to tell people what the last three years of her life, and ours, have been like…