Good Trouble 1x03 "Allies" Episode Review
Major Spoilers are included in this episode review. Please read with caution.
This show keeps better and better. Side note: I am a big fan of Callie’s journey from The Fosters and seeing her being an adult makes me proud no matter how hard these lawyer kids try to push her down. Mariana, I’ve hated her on-and-off, but grew to love her by the end of the original series. The spin-off continues to advance her story in this strong third episode, as she makes an ally who won’t stand up for her.
Mariana’s story is getting spicy. The CEO didn’t blow her off like we were lead to believe. He wonders why she didn’t pitch her ideas to him, but the guy next to him (his assistant?) lied and said Marianna failed to get back to them. I can’t wait to see what happens next. There is a mystery to be solved here. Also, all of her coworkers are horrible, except Raj, except he’s awful too in a different way.
Callie is not fired because her fellow clerks cover for her, saying they wrote the bench memo together. This leads to Judge Wilson calling Callie into his office. He thinks, based on the memo, that she is not staying true to her beliefs, and that he wants her to rewrite it from her point of view. He is revealed to be not a bad person too. He isn’t using Callie as the counter clerk after all. Even better news?
He didn’t dismiss the Jamal Thompson case.
Callie’s love interests are all gorgeous men: Gael and Jaime. That’s right, Jaime from The Fosters series finale returned like he promised. The sexual tension between them is fantastic. We need Mariana to get some love interests too, but I think the show is trying to make Callie the character with boy drama this season. In the previous show, Mariana was the girl who went after the boys.
We learn more about Malika in this episode, and her connection to the Jamal Thompson case. She ends up bonding with the mother of Jamal Thompson and gets closer to the case, driving a wedge between Callie and her fragile friendship. This upcoming trial will rack up the tension for sure.
Overall, this episode fixed a lot of the issues I had in the previous episodes. I’m looking forward to see how the rest of the season plays out.