It’s official, the upcoming sixth season of “The Good Fight” will be the show’s last. The final ten-episode run has set a September 8th premiere date on the Paramount+ service.
Showrunners Robert and Michelle King have opted to call it a wrap, bringing an end to a thirteen year run for Christine Baranski’s Diane Lockhart character who started out in “The Good Wife” back in 2009.
It also marks the end of the first Paramount+ original with this series and “Star Trek: Discovery” being the original series anchors for the streamer in its early CBS All Access days.
The Kings have deliberately mapped out the new season as the last, Robert King telling Variety that:
“We felt we could end the show with a pretty big bang. That’s better than getting to the season where we’re struggling to find plot. We thought the sixth season could get us off the stage pretty grandly.”
The series has been unafraid to explore the vitriol, partisanship and breakdown of cultural norms that have arisen in recent years with the fifth season exploring the real-life rise of extremist violence in the U.S. and threats to the rule of law.
The new run sees the lawyers of Reddick & Associates undergoing an uneasy sense of deja vu, with everything from Roe v. Wade, to voting rights, to Cold War aggressions returning. They start to wonder if the violence that they see around them points to an impending civil war.
The Kings will remain busy, the pair showrunning fellow Paramount+ series “Evil” which is about to debut its third season, along with executive producing the second season of Showtime’s “Your Honor”. The pair expect to stay in business with CBS and Paramount+ for the foreseeable future.
