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Last year, The Good Fight premiered with a hyper-relevant bang. CBS All Access‘ flagship original was the first series to directly address the unique challenges of a post Trump world, introducing the world to Diane Lockhart’s (Christine Baranski) new struggles on Inauguration Day. In its second season, it looks as though The Good Fight is poised to be just as timely as ever but in another way. According to creators Robert and Michelle King, Season 2 will feature an episode that was inspired by the Bachelor in Paradise scandal of last summer.
During an interview with Decider at the Television Critics Association’s 2018 winter tour, the creators of The Good Wife and The Good Fight opened up about how CBS All Access’ lack of network regulations has influenced their creative process. Michelle King revealed that the transition to the streaming service has given them more writing time, fewer episodes to worry about, and extra time for filming. “It’s all been to the positive,” she said. “And you know the fact that we can use language that we want, sexuality, sex that we want, which is less important — frankly — to telling the story because we don’t live in that world much.”
“We’re able to show things that always existed in The Good Wife universe but just you weren’t seeing,” she said.
The Good Fight will be exploring its more risque privileges through an episode that’s based on another network TV property. “We’re doing one episode that is inspired by the reality show Bachelor in Paradise,” Robert King said.
Back in the summer, the ABC show was suspended and came under fire after claims were made that were was sexual misconduct between contestants DeMario Jackson and Corinne Olympios. An internal ABC investigation alleged that there was no wrongdoing. Olympios later revealed that medication mixed with alcohol had caused her to blackout, and since the incident, ABC has implemented a new drug policy for its contestants.
The conflict at the center of The Good Fight‘s episode will focus on consent and the responsibility the network has in sexual encounters that may cross the line. “The difficulty in doing [this episode] if we were just The Good Wife is that some of that requires not just a frankness in language about consent and oral sex, but some of it requires, if you’re looking at the excerpts of the video itself, some nudity,” Robert King said. “The question is when is consent granted in a drunken state and when it’s filmed by reality TV on top of it. So the actual data of the reality TV is part of the episode.”
The creative duo also revealed that CBS’s strict network standards got in the way of their creative process on at least one occasion while making The Good Wife. “I remember an issue we faced when we were on network where something we used in court, an exhibit, was a classic painting. But it was a classic painting that included nudity,” Michelle King said. “It became an issue of how we could depict that.”
However, moving to CBS All Access has erased that struggle. “That’s when we feel like things were a little silly, and you don’t want to deal with that anymore. And so we’re not dealing with that anymore,” she added.
