<em>The Good Fight</em> and the Perils of Folksiness
In Sunday’s episode of , the FBI investigator Madeline Starkey ushers Lucca Quinn and Maia Rindell into her office for a proffer session that will allow Maia to tell the FBI what she knows about a ponzi scheme allegedly perpetrated by her father. It’s an office that resembles a museum gift shop, if the shop’s manager were also a hoarder: The small room is crammed with stacks of bankers’ boxes, and baskets of outdated electronics, and antique office supplies: an old stapler, a rotary pencil sharpener. It is decorated with several ceramic sculptures—Baroque in style, whimsical in appearance—and also many American flags, big and small. Atop an old filing cabinet in the corner is a bronze statue of an eagle going in for the kill. Lucca (Cush Jumbo) takes it all in, gracefully introducing Maia (Rose Leslie) to the woman who will
