mark thomas valley played jason crouse on the good wife.
mark thomas valley played jason crouse on the good wife.
who plays jason crouse on the good wife?
mark thomas valley
season 7 begins with alicia resisting going to work with louis canning and deciding to let peter run for vice-president (as hillary clinton's running mate). eli hires ruth eastman (margo martindale); however, she becomes peter's campaign officer, leaving eli out. alicia, taking cases by herself, hires private investigator jason crouse (jeffrey dean morgan) in kalinda's absence. alicia finds a new ally in bar attorney lucca quinn (cush jumbo) and the two become friends, sharing cases. in the latter part of the season, peter gets investigated for another corruption charge involving murder during his second term as state's attorney by assistant u.s. attorney connor fox. peter hires elsbeth tascioni's ex-husband mike tascioni after noting a conflict of interest. as alicia throws a house party for peter's mother, jackie florrick, mike drops out, leaving diane to represent peter in his trial. alicia asks peter for a divorce and agrees to it, once his trial is over. after jason tells alicia she will never divorce peter if he goes to jail, alicia focuses all her efforts on proving peter's innocence, especially when grace tells her she won't go to college if her father gets arrested. alicia discovers a way to prove peter's innocence by discrediting diane's husband kurt mcveigh after he made a mistake on the case when analyzing the guns used in the murder. after an argument with diane, alicia convinces lucca to cross examine him on the stand, alluding to kurt's indiscretions and infidelity leaving diane humiliated. eli begins moving political donors away from peter, noting that it was alicia all along who has real political potential even after a failed state's attorney campaign. peter is offered and takes a deal where he doesn't have to go to prison, but must resign from office as governor; he also begins divorce proceedings with alicia but asks her to stand by his side one last time as he resigns from office. at his press conference, alicia thinks she sees jason waiting for her in a hallway and as soon the press conference finishes, walks off immediately, leaving peter behind. after finding out it wasn't jason waiting for her, diane approaches alicia before slapping her and walking off. alicia is left alone in the hallway before fixing herself up and wiping away tears.
the good wife
the ensemble cast of "the good wife" had been praised as "one of the best casts in television, and it was supplemented with an awe-inspiring array of guest stars — one way for the kings to flaunt the advantages of a network budget. half the cast of "the wire" passed through its halls, as did more broadway stars than there are in heaven," although at the end of the series the guest stars were increasingly placed in "throwaway roles." however, with the exit of male lead josh charles (who played will gardner) in season five, kayla kumari upadhyaya of "the a.v. club" opined that the show's "writers really struggled to rebuild that same type of long-term emotional storytelling. his departure left a gap that was never fully filled again." while reviewers acknowledged that charles' departure was inevitable (and praised how will was written off dramatically), they questioned decisions made by the writers for seasons six and seven that further hurt the show. archie panjabi's portrayal of kalinda sharma was well-regarded during the first three seasons, but sonia saraiya of "salon" felt that her character ended up sidelined by a much-criticized plotline in seasons four to six, amid a rumored rift between panjabi and producer julianna margulies where they did not share any screen time for their final 50 episodes. in season seven, longtime stalwarts like cary agos and diane lockhart were reportedly marginalized to irrelevance with a lack of compelling storylines, in favor of promoting new characters like lucca quinn and jason crouse.
the good wife