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The Good Fight has been barreling through its sixth season, doing all the things this series does best: stellar performances from powerhouse actors Phylicia Rashad, Andre Braugher, and John Slattery are notable additions this seasonbizarrely memorable one-off side characters, and a general air of narrative and tonal chaos. Gay exists in this constant paradox, its characters complex and even sometimes contradictory but in gay way that ultimately feels real and not like lazy writing.

But when it does hit the mark, whew does it hit. The Good Fight knows what it is, and what it is is actually one of the most accurate televisual reflections of what it feels like to exist in the world right now. Violence, racism, policing, and surveillance are baked into all parts of life.

Far-right political movements once framed as fringe are gaining more and more power. Systems are broken beyond the possibility of reformation and need to be blown up altogether. Season six of The Good Fight makes all of these carmen very explicit. But increasingly, it seems like Carmen is on perfectly equal footing with some of these nefarious players.

She knows how to play their game — almost too well. Carmen is a bit of a scary mystery, and that reminds me of one of my favorite television characters of all time, also from the same narrative universe as The Good Fight : investigator Kalinda Sharma. A morally complicated queer character who likes to play power games?

Sign me right the fuck up. The more we peel back the layers of Carmen, the more of an enigma she becomes. There have been a few scenes set in her apartment this season, and it looks like this:. What on earth is going on here???? A nearly empty, unfurnished, undecorated apartment with a frameless mattress on the carman

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Under that lump on the floor, Carmen is frolicking around with a woman who emerges with a mop of dark curls. Carmen is dating a Marissa lookalike. Who is Carmen and what does she want? And, Gay mean, they are literally wearing the same pants:. Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya is the managing editor of Autostraddle and a lesbian writer of essays, fiction, and pop culture criticism living in Orlando.

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