The gloves come off in a sensational finale to an incredible season of CBS's The Good Wife (Sunday, 9/8c), one of the best and hands down the most purely entertaining drama series anywhere on TV. The twists keep coming to the very last minute, as a dizzying swirl of political, legal and family matters bedevil Alicia (Julianna Margulies), and her worry is well founded when her snarky mother and uptight mother-in-law (Stockard Channing and Mary Beth Peil, respectively, and they're a hoot) conspire to take charge of her son Zach's graduation party. Blending humor and suspense with brilliant plotting that is succulently executed by one of TV's finest ensembles, The Good Wife wraps a fifth-season run of conflict, tragedy and high drama in high style. In other season-finale news, CBS's The Amazing Race (Sunday, 8/7c) stages its final lap in Las Vegas, where illusionist David Copperfield presents the three remaining teams with a magical challenge. ... A delicately etched and intimately powerful portrait of grief and bitter loss, the Lifetime movie Return From Zero (Saturday, 8/7c) stars a fearless Minnie Driver and the ever-affable Paul Adelstein as Maggie and Aaron, a couple rocked to their emotional core by the loss of their unborn child, discovered to have died in the womb shortly before the delivery date. The challenge for clone "twins" Sarah (the sane one) and Helena (the crazy killer one) in another exciting episode of BBC America's Orphan Black (Saturday, 9/8c) is to put their violent past aside to focus on the real threat: the conniving Rachel (all three played by Tatiana Maslany), whose minions play rough. ...
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