Following up a season that suddenly, five years in, had everyone not just noticing what a good show "The Good Wife" is, but actually talking about it, too (it made number 5 on last year's list), was never going to be an easy task. And Season 6 does not quite scale those heights, indeed it loses focus for a few episodes mid-season as Alicia Florrick's (Julianna Margulies) campaign for State's Attorney takes over as the primary storyline — we watch for the lawyerin', not the politics, dammit. But the deviations of those episodes only serve to bring more into focus what the rest (and remember, with 22 45 minute episodes, this is by some distance the most show of any on this list) does so well. Encompassing storylines whose thoughtfulness and often illuminating nature belie how directly they are spurred by topical events and issues (Ferguson, gun crime, gender and sexuality discrimination, copyright infringement and DRM, even an email hack similar to Sony's are all explored), at its best "The Good Wife" is thoroughly engrossing, intelligent TV — pacy, character-driven and carefully plotted at the same time. There are other minor niggles, like how they seem to be overusing the dream sequence trope without ever really having found an elegant way of incorporating them, but in the main, we cannot help but love a season where oddball Elspeth Tascioni (Carrie Preston) finally gets together with oddball Josh Perotti (Kyle Maclachlan) to give a pretty sexy show its unexpectedly sexiest moment.