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‘The Good Fight’ review: What a long, strange trip it’s been, culminating in the 6th and final season of this spiky-surreal legal drama

Lyle Bettencourt and Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart in "The Good Fight."

Christine Baranski might have one of the best laughs on television. It’s a delighted ripple of sonic caramel and she puts it to considerable use in the sixth and final season of the Paramount+ legal drama “The Good Fight.” Spinning off from the long-running CBS series “The Good Wife” in 2017, it quickly established itself as a wonderfully spiky and humorously enraged treatise on This Moment We’re Living Through. What a long, strange trip it’s been.

This time, that trip is partially drug-induced. That’s why Baranski’s Diane Lockhart is laughing so much. It’s a side effect of an experimental mood enhancement treatment — she wants off this treadmill

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