The Good Wife is on network television with 22 episode seasons.
 Esquire called The Good Wife "The Best Show on Television Right Now (Both Network and Cable)," claiming that the season five episodes "Hitting The Fan" and "The Next Day" were possibly the best television episodes produced that year, noting, "It's a rare show that starts to come into its own in the middle of its fifth season, but somehow CBS's The Good Wife has managed to do it
" The Salt Lake Tribune in its list of the Top 10 series of 2011 ranked The Good Wife No

