The Good Wife's Christine Baranski on Alicia’s Big Promotion: "The Stakes Have Gotten Higher"

The "bitchy boss" is a cliché Christine Baranski has spent four years avoiding on The Good Wife. When the series premiered in 2009, many assumed Diane Lockhart would be a woman on top "threatened" by her news-making underling Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies). But instead, Diane has proven to be a stable and encouraging mentor.

So when things briefly — and masterfully — took a turn to the contentious in...