I’m glued to the sleaze in Obama’s city
I HAVE managed to watch almost no live TV for several weeks, having been absorbed by the American drama
The Good Wife, set in Chicago and now free to watch on All4, if you can bear the incessant advertisements.
Its heroine, played by Julianna Margulies, is forced to go back to practising law when her politician husband is sent to prison. And this lands her in an unending whirligig of melodramas in court and out of it, in that very dangerous and yet glamorous city.
Chicago is my favourite American city, much more representative of the USA than the Babylon of New York. The drama is full of shady politics obviously drawn from life. I kept asking myself how the supposedly sainted Barack Obama came through Chicago’s ultra-sleazy political machine smelling of roses.