We're about to enter into the summer television season, which is increasingly a distinct season of new shows, rather than an endless series of repeats. Still, there are repeats, and I do have a recommendation for any dotCommonweal reader who's looking for something good to watch, whether as a refuge from baseball (yes, I said it!) or to download onto your iPhone, iTouch, or iPad to make flying more endurable. That recommendation is CBS's The Good Wife, starring Julinana Margulies.Loosely based on recent politician scandals such as Eliot Spitzer's, the show explores the life of the woman standing beside the disgraced politician. In this case, the politician is Peter Florrick, a Chicago state's attorney, who was jailed after a sex and corruption scandal. (Florrick is played with the perfect degree of dissipated handsomeness by Christopher Noth--best known as "Mr. Big" on Sex and the City.)Florrick's wife, Alicia, is forced to back to work as an associate in a law firm to support the family, as well as to deal with the aftermath of her husband's betrayal. So roughly half of each episode deals with a client case and office politics, and roughly half deals with her interactions with her two teenage children, and her husband, who's allowed to live at home on house arrest in later episodes.What makes the show interesting, in my view, is the level of sophistication of some of the questions it deals with. No one is absolutely good or absolutely bad. Nor are their motives entirely clear, to the audience, to their friends and relatives, or even to themselves. Can/should Alicia trust Peter's promises of reform, or would she be a fool to do so? Should she move on? What about the children? The elusive question of forgiveness comes in, too. What is it? Can you make yourself forgive? Religion, incidentally, has a more prominent role in this series than in others, as Peter connects with a "Jeremiah-Wright" type pastor who's forcing him to address his issues, not merely enabling him to get the desired photo op. Is this conversion real? Fake? Or something more complicated--a fake conversion that is somehow taking real roots?All engrossing questions, at least to me. And all questions we've talked about here.