The Good Wife is a
legal drama television series created by
Robert King and
Michelle King, which premiered on
CBS on September 22, 2009. The show tells the story of
Alicia Florrick (
Julianna Margulies), whose husband Peter (
Chris Noth) has been jailed following a very public sex and corruption scandal. She returns to her old job as a defense attorney under Will Gardner and Diane Lockhart (
Josh Charles and
Christine Baranski) to rebuild her reputation and provide for her two children, Grace and Zach (
Makenzie Vega and
Graham Phillips). All episode titles have the same number of words as the number of the season in which they appear, that is, all season one episodes have one-word titles, all season two episodes have two-word titles, all season three episodes have three-word titles, and all season four episodes have four-word titles. This pattern was abandoned beginning with the fifth season; however, the creators have expressed their idea that – ratings permitting – the show would run for seven seasons, which would allow for a symmetry in the title lengths: 1–2–3–4–3–2–1 to count words in each season's titles, respectively. On May 11, 2015, CBS renewed the series for a seventh season.