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Last night, The Good Wife aired its much publicized episode based on Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook and the controversies around the accuracy of The Social Network. (Emphasis on based on! I noted how conspicuously Diane referred to the plaintiff in the defamation suit as “a Mark Zuckerberg in the making,” so as to make crystal-clear that this was not a fictionalized version of the Zuck.)
Personally, I tend to like The Good Wife better when it’s showing the many ways that social-media technology affect the lives and work of its characters—the Florrick campaign, video evidence in trials, the kids’ social lives—rather than in front-and-center, ripped-from-the-headlines cases like this one. But it was a pretty entertaining case-of-the-week for the show (the not-Zuckerberg figure, I thought, was more interesting and less stereotypical than the vain not-Aaron-Sorkin figure), and it’s good to see a TV series deal with the ramifications of technology beyond funny-ringtone jokes.
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