Do you
love Cara with a fiery passion like Cara a normal, healthy amount? Of course you do. That's why we're friends. That's
also why I'm going to tell you that you should be watching the Good Wife. Like now. Go find it online and watch the whole first season. Because (aside from the fact that it is a compelling, smart show and Julianna Margulies is awesome) somehow, miraculously, the Good Wife has a character that is essentially a real world Cara, and her dynamic with the other lead female character is remarkably similar to the relationship between Cara and Kahlan.
(warning: very minor spoilers for the first season of the Good Wife ahead)
Allow me to introduce you to Kalinda, and a few of the ways she is similar to Cara:
1) Cara and Kalinda both share an affinity for tight leather outfits and are exceptionally good at leaning against things.
2) Both women are snarky as hell and operate in a pretty serious moral grey area - they're badasses who know how to get. shit. done. and there is very little they won't do in order to achieve their objectives. Kalinda is a private investigator who works for the law firm that Alicia Florrick, the show's main character, begins working for at the start of the first season. Basically she runs around intimidating people, sneaking into crime scenes, sweet-talking the cops and FBI Agents to get information on cases relevant to their clients, and rolling her eyes at Alicia while also not-so-secretly admiring her for being another badass.
3) Both women are extremely emotionally closed off and private - much to the chagrin of their seemingly more "pure," moral, and emotionally open counterparts (i.e. Alicia and Kahlan - the "Good Wife" and the Mother Confessor).
4) Both women, almost despite themselves, are fiercely loyal to and protective of the other lead female character. Kalinda, despite her vocal protests that Alicia is too nice and it makes her weak, will do basically anything Alicia asks and does everything she can to make sure Alicia keeps her job. Sound familiar?
5) Canon bisexuaity + subtext GALORE! Even though Kalinda has refused to answer the direct question of whether or not she's gay, we've seen her blatantly flirt with both men and women on the show, and the season finale insinuated that she had a kiss and a relationship with a female FBI agent. And even though Alicia, like Kahlan, is in a very serious heterosexual relationship which is a major focus of the show, there is boatloads of subtext between her and Kalinda. At the very
least they have a close friendship and a one-sided/unrequited attraction on Kalinda's part.
So have I convinced anyone? Or are you guys already watching?
