'Good Wife' creators defend 'controversial' series finale

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One month after the curtains closed on "The Good Wife," creators Robert and Michelle King are coming to grips with the reaction some viewers had to the series finale. “It was mixed. It was polarizing,” Robert King told ET on Monday during a press junket in New York City for their CBS summer series, "BrainDead." “I think my mother probably didn’t like it. My brothers and sisters kind of did like it. I think that was representative of some people.” “We wanted it to be a bit controversial,” he continued. “We didn’t think it would be as controversial as it was.” As some viewed it, "The Good Wife" ended its seven-season run on an ambiguous note. In the final scene, Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies)

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That epic slap was not the end of the story. Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King intended to tack an extra scene onto last spring’s polarizing series finale. The additional footage would’ve made it clear that Alicia (Julianna Margulies) ended up with Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Jason. Instead, the episode concluded with Diane (Christine Baranski) smacking Alicia upside the head. During a Q&A Thursday at the Scripted television conference in New York (attended by our sister site Variety), the Kings confirmed a statement made by Morgan over the summer that shortly after production on the finale wrapped they tried to bring him back to New York to shoot a quick new scene with Margulies. But Morgan