CBS All Access Makes Season 4 Debut, 10 Other Episodes Free Online In Emmy Push

SVOD service CBS All Access is making its Emmy case for The Good Fight, providing free online access to the Season 4 debut episode, The Gang Deals with Alternate Reality, and 10 other “most impactful” episodes.

The legal drama created by Robert and Michelle King with Phil Alden Robinson is pretty much the only non-Star Trek show on CBS All Access to break through to wider pop culture, with the possible exception of Jordan Peele’s reboot of The Twilight Zone.

The show stars Christine Baranski, in the role she originated on previous CBS broadcast series The Good Wife that garnered her six Emmy nominations. The Good Fight also stars Delroy Lindo, Cush Jumbo and Sarah Steele.

Since its 2017 debut, The Good Fight has received two music-related Emmy nominations, among a moderate amount of other awards recognition. As the competition for viewer attention is getting more heated, grabbing Emmy, Golden Globe and Oscar attention has become increasingly important to the proliferating group of big subscription video services.

According to CBS All Access, the Season 4 launch episode, The Gang Deals with Alternate Reality, is something of a modern-day take on Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life: “(Baranski) finds herself living in an alternate reality where Donald Trump was never elected and Hillary Clinton is the current President of the United States. While Diane’s liberal self is overjoyed, she soon realizes how a different outcome of the 2016 election might have unexpected consequences.”

The Season 4 debut and other episodes will be available for free through July 15 as part of the show’s Emmy campaign. You can watch it here on YouTube:

The other free episodes will be available on CBS.com
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, the CBS mobile apps, through Amazon Prime
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The free shows include the show’s first-ever episode, called Inauguration; Season 2’s Day 443, Day 457 and Day 485; Season 3’s The One About Recent Troubles, The One With Lucca Becoming a Meme, The One Where a Nazi Gets Punched, The One Where Diane and Liz Topple Democracy; and Season 4’s third episode, The Gang Gets a Call from HR.

CBS All Access is one of the oldest subscription video services, but has looked increasingly undernourished compared to beefy new competitors such as Disney+, an enhanced Hulu, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, and HBO Max. Comcast’s Peacock service is scheduled to become widely available on July 15, and will feature 7,500 hours of programming from NBC, Universal Pictures and even licensed movies and shows from ViacomCBS such as The Godfather trilogy and Showtime’s Ray Donovan.

ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish has promised to reveal soon how the company plans to beef up All Access, including with programming from the non-CBS side of his newly merged company, such as Paramount Pictures, MTV, Comedy Central, and Nickelodeon.