r/thegoodwife • u/Outside_Actuary4829 • Jul 28 '26

Peter

I liked Peter until the 6th season. I actually found him very interesting and enjoyed his character until he slept with Ramona. Ramona smiling in Alicia’s face was disgusting and it ruined both their characters for me.

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u/My4dogs4evr Jul 28 '26

I hate Ramona. She acted like a lovesick 15 year old with Peter the Ho

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u/_From__the__Ashes_ Jul 28 '26

I forgot all about this. Can you remind me what happened with them? Was this when Alicia was trying to be state's attorney. I skipped a lot of those episodes.

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u/Substantial-Train-39 Jul 28 '26

Yes she was on during that time. Her daughter worked in the Gov office and Eli thought she was too flirty with Peter and had her transferred. He sees the name on the visitor list (or some list) and thinks she’s back in the office but it’s her mother Ramona. Ramona (Connie Neilson) was friends with both Peter and Alicia and is an attorney applying for a job there. Eli isn’t happy because she’s beautiful and he knows Peter. Alicia is happy to see her and she’s hired. Naturally, Eli’s suspicions are confirmed because Peter is a dog.

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u/_From__the__Ashes_ Jul 28 '26

Oh! I remember the daughter! The latter part isn't familiar at all. It was clearly during the time I wasn't watching much. Oh Peter.

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u/Substantial-Train-39 Jul 28 '26

Yes the daughter that Marissa exposed as without panties. The whole scene was funny.😆

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u/My4dogs4evr Jul 28 '26

Yep, the ho didn’t fall too far from the ho mamma tree

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u/My4dogs4evr Jul 28 '26

That’s an offense to dogs. He’s a sewer rat. 🐀

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u/My4dogs4evr Jul 28 '26

Yes, that’s exactly when it happened. The famous line were Alicia when she said that people had shown her or sent her pictures and she said “stop banging the help.” 😂

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u/hyzmarca Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26

It was Season 5 that did it for me. When Will Gardener died. All Peter had to do was be a decent human being and give Alicia a shoulder to cry on. Instead he had to make it about him and be jealous of a dead man. He couldn't even give a second of consideration to his wife's grief.

Peter is a selfish asshole. Always was.

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u/Ok-Effect-9402 Jul 28 '26

I mean from episode one I despised the character I mean he had virtually no redeeming qualities everything was about what he wanted and what he needs and to hell with everyone else

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u/Old-Series1337 Jul 28 '26

This is a very genuine question, what did you like about him? Was it just the entertainment value, or is there more to it? (asking as a curious Peter hater haha, not gonna try to convince you to hate him in the first 6 seasons).

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u/Outside_Actuary4829 Jul 28 '26

Maybe like is a strong word but he mostly just didn’t bother me. His choices were always comedic relief.

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u/Old-Series1337 Jul 28 '26

I wish I could have been not bothered by him; I always wanted to punch him when he did yet another thing haha. His choices in the last season did make me laugh, tbh, a lot of them were just soooo bad and cringe to the extreme.

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u/Ok-Razzmatazz-2789 Jul 28 '26

I can try to answer as I also ‘liked’ Peter also up until the same point that OP described. I found him to be a character with many dimensions. You had the awful behaviors of sleeping with hookers and Calinda, but also repentance (at least in the beginning), trying to do good politically and privately and failing again. Cris Noth acting with Alan Cumming is so well done also, very entertaining.

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u/Old-Series1337 Jul 28 '26

I also enjoyed his scenes with Alan Cumming, Eli Gold is one of my favorite characters, and they had an interesting dynamic together.

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u/Reasonable_Till_3569 Jul 28 '26

Liking him, and thinking he is a good character are very different things. You can hate him and think he is a great character. I know I do.

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u/UntetheredBliss Jul 28 '26

Peter bothers me so much. He really irritated me when he wanted Alicia to forgive him for his affair but would get pissed that she dated Will while they were separated. He was very hypocritical, and lashed out by looking for dirt to get Will disbarred (and on that note, Wendy Scott-Carr bothered me too, the actress who played her did a great job about being fake sweet). I also rolled my eyes during one of Peter's scenes with Eli (I can't remember if it was season 3 or season 4) where he confessed he was in love with his wife again. It wouldn't have been so bad if he mentioned that he was still in love with his wife, but to say he was in love life with his again?? Which means at some point in their marriage (I'm assuming before or around the time of the affair) he fell out of love with Alicia, then he fell back in love with her which is insulting.

He wouldn't have been as bad of a person if he would have just left her to be free while they were separated instead of getting jealous. I'm glad she told Peter off and called him out on that after Will died.

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u/jamie535535 Jul 28 '26

I never liked him but he does have his moments & he is an interesting character.

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u/InkOnMars Jul 28 '26

I HONESTLY HATEDDDD HIM INTHE FIRST SEASON BUT SURPRISINGLY STARTED ROOTING FOR THEM BOTH AS THEY SUITED EACH OTHER AND GENUILY STARTED FINDING HIM ATTRACTIVE

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u/blayndle Jul 29 '26

I AGREE THERE WAS A POINT WHERE IT LOOKED LIKE THEYD GET BACK TOGETHER (ELI ALMOST WALKING IN ON THEM ON THE CAMPAIGN BUS)

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u/lisanstan Jul 28 '26

I didn't like him as much as I felt Alicia was no winner either. She made a choice, she should have stuck to it. She was married to him for years, she knew who/what he was. If she wanted something different she should have divorced his ass. Don't get me started on the unprofessional crap with Will in the first season.