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The Good Wife

10 p.m., CBS

Tonight, "Peter's appeal trial begins; Alicia defends a wealthy client whose innocence she doubts; a felon Diane successfully prosecuted is about to be released from prison." Oooo, this show is good. And it keeps getting better (which is, you know, the opposite of what usually happens). My favorite character, of course, is Kalinda, the firm's private investigator, who dresses in tight skirts and thigh-high black leather boots, and clearly has lots and lots of skeletons in her closet. Things got really tricky in the last new episode, when she was hired by the evil state's attorney to work against Florek. And yet, she was also hired by Peter Florek to do nasty things to the evil state's attorney. She is brilliantly understated as played by Archie Panjabi. Apparently, tonight, Diane is going to start carrying a gun. Oh, Christine Baranski, we do love you too.

American Idol

8 p.m., Fox

Tonight, Victoria Beckham returns to try and discover things to do in Denver when you're (brain) dead. EW.com did a hilarious thing last week after Joe Jonas' horrific guest-judging, in which they counted the actual number of words he said: 40. And most of them were "Yeah." So tonight, I am going to take a shot (liquor, not swine flu) every time Posh says "nice." I expect to call in sick tomorrow.

Lost

8 and 9 p.m., ABC

Kids, the 8 o'clock hour is the mandatory remind-me-what-has-happened-so-far episode. At 9, we get the two-hour episode that launches the final season! THE FINAL SEASON! It is hard to believe. I, like many of you, have had a love-hate relationship with this brilliant and maddening show, and I expect that will continue. Tonight, we learn if the Jughead experiment worked - if you recall, Juliet miraculously survived that huge fall down that giant hole long enough to set off the atomic bomb. Remember that Jack wanted to set off the bomb because he thought that it would somehow reset the clock, and the crash of Oceanic 815 would never have happened. And don't forget that while all that was going on in the 1970s, the rest of the gang was in the present discovering that John Locke really was still dead, and Jacob was being murdered by Ben and all kinds of other wack-a-doodleness was occurring. Welcome back, Lost. I'm confused already.