TOP CHARACTERS OF 2011: Kalinda Sharma, The Good Wife

As much as I loved Kalinda’s season 2 storyline for how deeply it showcased Kalinda’s emotions, the surprising depth of her feelings for Alicia, it broke my heart. However, what breaks my heart more is the horrible way the writers have treated her character in the last part of Season 3. She’s been all but erased from many episodes or utterly wasted on the abomination of a storyline with Cary. The storyline with Cary and Dana has reduced my poor Kalinda to someone she would have had no respect for in previous seasons and it’s utterly heartbreaking. I’ve found the show itself in decline by the writers’ complete inability to manage to write either Kalinda or Alicia without the other; they both act yet the viewer is given no reason or emotional explanation of why they acted so without the bond between the two women. I suppose that’s what happens when you have two women so used to keeping their true emotions inside while displaying a different face to the public.

I want Kalinda to be the old Kalinda again in 2012 but I don’t hold out much hope from the teaser trailer that was released. I’ll always love Kalinda, I just wish she’d get her self respect back.