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3d comic the chaperone. elisode 42/1/2024 ![]() ![]() Marissa confronts Lucca with a defensive attitude that feels absolutely true to white progressives who are slow to recognize their own racial blind spots. (A brief scene afterwards is particularly striking. At a meeting to discuss how to deal with the threats Lucca has been receiving, past instances of police violence against unarmed black citizens come up, and she notices a curious phenomenon: The black people in the room all know the names of the victims - Philando Castile, Botham Jean, Laquan McDonald - but the white people can only vaguely recall the circumstances of the shootings. Someone captures the scene on cellphone video, and in true Good Fight fashion, a ripped-from-the-headlines phenomenon - in this case, white people calling the cops on black people, and having it backfire virally - becomes grist for the mill. It starts with an incident in the park, where an officious white woman starts harassing Lucca over her baby and phones the police with her suspicion that Lucca isn’t the child’s real mother. Then circumstances change, through a deftly orchestrated series of events that causes the higher-ups at the firm to reframe the discussion. At the end of the meeting, Adrian agrees to reconvene four days later for a final decision, but the vibe in the room is that Maia will get off with one-week suspension. Diane argues that circumstances are different here, because Maia was in possession of drugs, not using them, and the context for how she got them matters. ![]() The disciplinary board opens the episode with some division over whether Maia should be fired or suspended: A couple of the board’s black members remind them that an associate was terminated over drug charges not long ago, and that the firm should be consistent in its “no tolerance” policy. Calling the police was Roland’s revenge for Maia getting a favorable plea deal for her client over his, but there are questions about her judgment in allowing that to happen, even understanding Roland’s propensity for mischief. Despite Reddick, Boseman & Lockhart being understood as a minority-run operation with mostly black partners, the reality is that white employees are paid better and treated more charitably, and Maia is Exhibit A.Īt issue in the episode is Maia’s arrest over the hospice drugs that Roland had left in her car. ![]() This is not the reason why she gets fired at the end of “The One with Lucca Becoming a Meme,” but it does inform an episode that uncorks a lively discussion over the racial disparities that have been simmering at the firm for a long time. Maia got her office by appealing to the partners, who then kicked its black occupant back out into the open rows of desks along with the other low-ranking associates. Yet the show, to its immense credit, has not let this incident go without further examination. If she had to slash and burn to get there, so be it. Gone was the Maia from the first season, whose confidence was minimized by her father’s misdeeds and her own junior status at the firm now she’s more like the velociraptor in Jurassic Park who learns to open a door - she’s discovered her own power, and it’s intoxicating to witness, as empowerment stories generally are. ![]() On last week’s The Good Fight, when Maia aggressively procured a private office from another third-year associate, it was a meme-worthy moment, completing her Roland Blum-triggered transformation into a ruthless, unapologetic, take-no-prisoners badass. ![]()
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