Christine Baranski Says She Was 'Stunned' to Learn 'The Good Fight' Was Ending, Admits She Still Hasn't 'Processed' It

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Christine Baranski is opening up about the end of The Good Fight. In a new interview, the 70-year-old actress revealed her reaction to finding out that her Paramount+ series was ending after the upcoming sixth season. Click inside to read more… While speaking with TVLine, Christine recalled wrapped up a day of filming season six when she got the call that the show was ending. “I had finished a marvelous workday with John Slattery and Gary Cole — I didn’t know what was coming,” Christine recalled. “By the time I got home, [series co-creators] Robert and Michelle [King] called me and told me it’s going to be the end… I was stunned.

My heart dropped.” She continued, “I tried to be sanguine and understand the reasoning for it, but it was a loss of so many things: the consistency of the work; the marvelous group of people that constitute the show; the marvelous writing.

I don’t think I ever took for granted just how lucky I was to be on such a quality show. I started enjoying the work more than ever in my final few seasons.” Christine went on to say that Robert and Michelle explained that there were “several reasons” why The Good Fight was ending after season six. “Robert and Michelle wanted to end it while they could still control the narrative, and [there was a sense] that… perhaps, Paramount[+] did not want our [show], which was left over from CBS [All Access],” Christine said. “And Robert and Michelle didn’t want to learn that the show was being pulled without having the narrative control to bring it to an end.

Which can often happen.” “You finish a season and then you find out it’s been cancelled and the characters are left dangling without that proper push toward a solid narrative conclusion,” Christine added. “My