‘The Good Wife’ opens Season 6 with typically superb episode

Warning: This article contains spoilers

The most striking thing about Sunday night's Season 6 premiere of CBS's "The Good Wife" hits you after the end credits: Will Gardner is gone at last.

The practical consequences of his death are in full effect, of course — Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski) wouldn't think of joining Florrick, Agos and Associates if Will were still alive — but you get the feeling that emotionally, the show and the characters have decisively moved on.

Julianna Margulies and Christine Baranski in a scene from Sunday night's season premiere of "The Good Wife."Photo: CBS

Written by creators Robert and Michelle King, and directed — with the show's usual stylish flair — by Robert King, Sunday night's episode set in motion at least three distinct plot lines.

The first is Diane leaving Lockhart/Gardner to join Alicia (Julianna Margulies) and her upstart firm. The two hash out details, their eyes misting over the prospect of potentially heading the country's biggest female-led law firm.

This story isn't likely to dominate the season, though, even if roadblocks are looming, including those generated by David Lee (Zach Grenier) and Louis Canning (Michael J. Fox), who smell a rat and set out to prevent clients from fleeing Lockhart/Gardner. This feels like a reverse move from the client-poaching shenanigans of Season 5, so let's hope it won't drag on too long — even if it's always a pleasure to watch Grenier and Fox in full scheming swing. Indeed, it would be a pity if Diane leaving her old company meant less airtime for these two wily scoundrels.

The second arc, a likely longer one, concerns Alicia running for state's attorney, as suggested by Eli (Alan Cumming).

"I'm never saying yes," she bluntly tells him.

Fine, we'll play along and pretend to be surprised when she changes her tune.

Eli commissions polls (courtesy of guest star Samantha Mathis) that show Alicia's numbers through the roof, then brilliantly manipulates Peter (Chris Noth) into accepting the idea of his wife running.

The third and final arc is almost certain to ripple through the season — the Kings have said as much. It's about drug-dealing kingpin Lemond Bishop (Mike Colter) and his influence on Florrick Agos.

"The Good Wife" airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on CBS.Photo: CBS

Using twisted logic, our attorneys have long been able to rationalize their keeping Bishop as a client. But now law enforcement steps it up, using Cary (Matt Czuchry) as a pawn in their war against the drug tycoon. Framed in a heroin case, Cary is packed off to jail — beige is the new black! — and we have to watch in horror as his youthful good looks get increasingly compromised first by stubble, then by a shiv.

That's a lot to pack into less than an hour of screen time, yet the premiere also manages to throw in delightful bonus bonbons: smoldering looks between Alicia and ADA Finn Polmar (Matthew Goode, now a series regular), Eli's daughter (Sarah Steele) busting Peter's intern for not wearing underwear, and Kalinda briefly reuniting with former flame Sophia Russo (Kelli Giddish, on loan from "Law & Order: SVU").

Cable — who needs it? The best show on TV is on broadcast, and it's back at last.

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