Artistic licence

There’s a scene in the season finale of the latest series of The Good Wife where Alicia Florrick (played by Julianna Margulies), the hotshot lawyer and long-suffering wife of politician Peter Florrick, sits down with her ghostwriter to read through a draft of her upcoming memoir. Trouble is, Eli Gould, her husband’s wily campaign manager, has got to the manuscript first and made copious editorial notes in the margins. ...