'The Good Wife' Season 7 Spoilers: Showrunners Dish About the Peter-Hillary Storyline [VIDEO]
One of the main plot twist revelations that was made in the season 7 premiere of The Good Wife was the fact that Peter (Chris Noth) is actually signing up to run against Hillary Clinton for the position of Democrat nominee for the the presidential elections.
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Interestingly, though, Peter is not gunning for the position of president but for vice president, and playing second fiddle to Clinton once she snags the main role in the White House. Anyhow, this storyline is obviously very ambitious and would be a tough one to write, as Clinton's campaign will run parallely.
In an interview with Vulture, showrunners Michelle and Robert King dished about the whole process and how they hoped to get it right.
The two were clear about taking a real-life character of such import over writing a fictional character that would be based on the politician, from the start.
"It's so much more interesting to us if we could make it as real a race as possible," Michelle said.
Robert suggested that it was mor ein line with their taste.
"I've never loved shows where they use realistic events but then have to create a fictional country for them to take place in. Homeland is so much fun [because] it involves real events going on," Robert added. "That's just our taste. Sometimes what's happening in the news is much more interesting."
The duo were also asked the question that is probably on everybodies minds: "Will the show explore Hillary as a person, at all?"
Robert King was cautious about answering this one:
"Can we put an asterisk here? What we're doing is we're showing how a campaign like Peter Florrick's, the governor of a big democratic state, would rely on the fact that Obama came from that state, and try to play into it. He's only talking about the competition with Hillary and Bernie Sanders to show that it's happening in that real world. We don't go deeply into these other politicians as people. It's more as background to the Florrick campaign's political ops."
Episode 2 of season 7 of The Good Wife will air on Oct. 11 on CBS.
