The Best Episodes of The Good Fight Season 5
Every episode of The Good Fight Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Good Fight Season 5!
Picking up one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of "The Good Wife", an enormous financial scam has destroyed the reputation of a young lawyer, Maia Rindell, while simultaneously wiping out her mentor and godmother Diane Lockhart's savings. Forced out of her law firm, now called "Lockhart, Deckler, Gussman, Lee, Lyman, Gilbert, Lurie, Kagan, Tannebaum & Associates", they join Lucca Quinn at one of Chicago's preeminent law firms.
Season 5 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "The Good Fight" season 5 is "Previously on...", rated 8.3/10 from 675 user votes. It was directed by Brooke Kennedy and written by Robert King, Michelle King. "Previously on..." aired on 6/24/2021 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Once there was a court...".
8.3/10 675 votes#1 - Previously on...
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 6/24/2021
A flashback to 2020 reveals how the team at Reddick, Boseman & Lockhart experienced the year's major events.
Director: Brooke Kennedy
Writer: Robert King, Michelle King
8.3/10 527 votes#2 - Once there was a court...
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 7/1/2021
Diane and Marissa find themselves arguing at the Circuit 9 3/4 Court, led by the quirky "Judge" Hal Wackner. Meanwhile, Carmen Moyo proves herself to be an effective, yet underestimated, new associate.
Director: Michael Trim
Writer: Jonathan Tolins
8.2/10 456 votes#3 - And the court had a clerk...
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 7/8/2021
Diane is aghast when Kurt reveals he recognized the face of a man featured in a U.S. Capitol insurrection "Most Wanted" poster. Intrigued by Wackner, Marissa sneaks over to his copy shop "courtroom" and is thrilled by what she encounters. Back in legitimate court, Liz uses a current case to tackle Section 230.
Director: Tyne Rafaeli
Writer: William M. Finkelstein
8.1/10 433 votes#4 - And the clerk had a firm…
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 7/15/2021
When a comedy streaming network executive, Del Cooper, asks Liz to conduct a sensitivity read on one of his comedians, the entire firm ends up fighting over how comedy and 'cancel culture' collide. Meanwhile, FBI agent Madeline Starkey goes after Kurt for his alleged involvement in the U.S. Capitol insurrection.
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: Jacquelyn Reingold
8.0/10 422 votes#5 - And the firm had two partners...
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 7/22/2021
Liz and Carmen represent Oscar Rivi, who is suing Harbor Hospital over the wrongful death of his daughter. Jay's investigation of the case triggers some PTSD that forces him to dig deeper into his own experience with Covid. With Madeline Starkey still hell-bent on getting Kurt to come clean, Diane decides to take matters into her own hands.
Director: Nikki M. James
Writer: Davita Scarlett
8.0/10 427 votes#6 - And the two partners had a fight...
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 7/29/2021
When Reddick/Lockhart associates start posting anonymous hate messages about Julius and Diane on a new interoffice app, Diane's name partner position at the firm is once again questioned. At home, Diane grapples with her marriage after learning Kurt is considering a job offer from the NRA. Meanwhile, Wackner goes to real court to have his approach and sanity questioned.
Director: Brooke Kennedy
Writer: Aurin Squire
8.5/10 451 votes#7 - And the fight had a détente...
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 8/5/2021
At Circuit 9 3/4 court, Marissa is assigned to "prosecute" two contrasting "cancel culture" cases, which both leave her questioning the intentions of Wackner, David Cord and Del Cooper. The tension between Diane and Liz increases while they work together on a high profile case against the Chicago PD.
Director: Carrie Preston
Writer: Tegan Shohet
7.1/10 437 votes#8 - And the détente had an end...
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 8/12/2021
Julius fights to defend himself in Wackner's court in a surreal and harrowing effort to reclaim his car...and his dignity-all because of an alleged parking violation. Meanwhile, after focus group feedback threatens to sink Del Cooper's reality show about Wackner, both Marissa and Wackner embrace different tactics to help revive the court
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Laura Marks
7.4/10 386 votes#9 - And the end was violent...
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 8/19/2021
Liz and Diane struggle to get David Lee and the Dubai overlords to accept the new name partner, Allegra Jurado. Oscar Rivi attempts to make his cannabis business legitimate, but realizes that the corporate world can be just as cut-throat as his own. When the justice system fails to detain and prevent a man from continually committing anti-Asian hate crime, the cops discover another way for justice -- Wackner's court.
Director: Brooke Kennedy
Writer: Eric Holmes
7.5/10 465 votes#10 - And the violence spread...
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 8/26/2021
In the season five finale, it's too many courts and too little time for the folks at Reddick/Lockhart. Marissa is mounting a strong defense in Vinetta's court for Matteo, while Diane attempts to get an interview with him in order to spring Matteo from court. Carmen, Liz, and Allegra defend drug dealer, Oscar Rivi, as prosecutors attempt to put him back in prison.
Director: Robert King
Writer: Robert King, Michelle King