So, The Good Fight kicked off in 2017. It’s like a sequel to The Good Wife. Diane Lockhart, big shot lawyer in Chicago, deals with legal mess and life during Trump’s circus. The show dives into hot topics like race, gender and power. It uses law as a backdrop. Sharp writing, solid acting and issues that hit home. Critics love it and so do fans. What a surprise, right?

Meet the characters from The Good Fight

Diane Lockhart

Diane is the sort of courtroom force that makes you sit up straight just by entering a room — equal parts razor-sharp lawyer and old-school elegance. She’s stubborn and principled, like a walking column of legal precedent who also drinks too much strong coffee at midnight. Loves theater and opera (yes, really) but will also throw down in a board meeting with the saltiness of someone who’s been betrayed one too many times. Sometimes she sounds like a mother, sometimes like a shark, and she definitely owns more scarves than is strictly reasonable.

Lucca Quinn

Lucca is the fierce, no-nonsense litigator who can flip a case and your attitude in one sentence — smart, ambitious, and secretly sentimental about vinyl records. She’s ethical in a way that makes other people both admire and envy her, and she’ll punch through sexism with humor and an exhausted sigh. Slightly chaotic in her personal life (dates, phones, bikes — pick a thing), but an absolute rock at work; also tends to wear ridiculously high heels and then complain about them later. There’s a soft side that shows up in tiny, weird ways — like caring too much about other people’s plants.

Adrian Boseman

Adrian is steady, dignified, and the kind of calm intellect that anchors the whole office when chaos erupts; think thoughtful speeches, cool suits, and quietly devastating comebacks. He is politically savvy without being performative, a mentor who sometimes forgets to pat himself on the back (or so it seems). Always appears collected but you can tell he carries weight — personal stakes, moral dilemmas, a weird fondness for spicy food he can’t cook for himself. He’s also the guy who’ll correct your case citation and then hand you a donut, which is somehow both infuriating and endearing.

Marissa Gold

Marissa is polished, sharp, and glamorous in a way that screams “I run things” — corporate titan energy with a lipstick that could stop a trial. She’s ambitious and strategic, smooth in negotiations, and not above doing morally gray stuff if it keeps the firm afloat. There’s a surprising vulnerability under the power-suit — she collects puzzles (little brainy ones) and sometimes texts emojis she immediately regrets. She can be ruthless but you sort of get the sense she’s also quietly protective of her people, in a very curated way.

Jay Dipersia

Jay has older-partner gravitas with a dry, salty humor that makes him both maddening and lovable; he’s a pragmatic fixer who prefers results over speeches. He’s the punchline and the backbone — will scold you for bad strategy and then openly steal your lunch from the fridge. Loves fountain pens? Probably. Hates nonsense? Absolutely. Holds old grudges like family heirlooms but will defend the firm like it’s his stupid, dysfunctional family.

Maia Rindell

Maia is intense, bright, and heartbreakingly idealistic — a moral compass that sometimes spins off because feelings are loud and messy here. She’s a brilliant lawyer with a chaotic inner life, processing trauma while trying to be righteous and right a bunch of wrongs (not always easily). She keeps sticky notes everywhere and will passionately recite a statute before a quote from a movie (okay maybe both). Brave but vulnerable, sometimes naive in the best/worst ways, and the friend who will text you at 2 AM with deep confessions or a terrible meme.

Liz Reddick

Liz is the razor-sharp political operator who dresses like power and speaks like a policy paper that learned to be funny — stylish, strategic, and complicated. She balances legal chops with political instincts and sometimes says things that sting because they’re true; maternal energy combined with executive-level chill. She’s impeccably manicured, often three steps ahead, and can be surprisingly tender when you least expect it (then scold you for being sentimental). A little mysterious, very effective, and honestly a walking LinkedIn summary if LinkedIn had more personality.

Julius Cain

Julius is aggressive, unapologetic, and part bulldozer, part theater critic — loves to exert pressure and watch things crumble (or rebuild) under his boot. He brings a brutal honesty to the courtroom that makes everyone nervous, and he seems to enjoy legal gladiator matches maybe more than is strictly healthy. Cultured in unexpected ways (classical music tastes? yes), but also a guy who will scream into a phone like it’s 1995. He’s terrifying and magnetic and probably has a weird stamp collection.

Kurt McVeigh

Kurt is gruff, loyal, and quietly complicated — ex-cop, to-the-point, with a moral code that doesn’t always play nice with nuance. He shows up when it matters, says the wrong thing sometimes, and has that ‘tough outside, soft internal playlist’ vibe (he secretly watches romantic comedies when no one’s around — maybe). He drinks coffee like it’s a life-support system and carries emotional baggage like a duffel bag that’s seen things. Surprisingly funny in a deadpan way, and you get the feeling he’d defend a friend in a bar fight and then apologize to the bar owner.

Colin Morello

Colin is the fiery, theatrical activist-lawyer hybrid who loves a good speech, a good joke, and stirring the pot generally. He’s passionate, a little performative, and wins hearts with charm and a tendency toward dramatic entrances (scarves? yes, many scarves). He’s moral but messy, strategic but prone to impulsive tweeting at 3 AM — the kind of person who lives in three overlapping projects and two unresolved flirtations. Deep down, he wants to be taken seriously and also desperately wants everyone to like him, which is chaotic in a very entertaining way.