Lisa Johnson Mandell and Tandy Culpepper review two streaming drama series that seem to have it all, including Christine Baranski — The Good Fight and The Gilded Age, on The Hollywood Beat podcast.

Tandy’s take on Christine Baranski

When it comes to capturing the attention of television audiences — whether they’re binging a certain corseted costume drama or two long-running corporate legal sizzlers — the actress Christine Baranski is the veritable gift that keeps on giving.

The indomitable 72-year-old actress, enjoys a well-wrought reputation for her work on the New York stage, but it is the small screen that has given the versatile performer the most recognition by consumers of American television programming.

She portrayed the same character on two TV dramas. Her character Diane Lockhart appeared first on the CBS nighttime legal drama The Good Wife. After that show ended its seven-year run, Baranski starred in the spinoff series, The Good Fight, which followed the exploits of Diane Lockhart for another six years.

More recently, she traded corporate law for bustles and buggies in Julian Fellowes’ New York period New York, The Gilded Age.

The actress who came into her own after she passed the age of the ingenue has won and been nominated for many major awards for her work on TV shows including Cybil, the Big Bang Theory, The Good Wife, Frasier, and, of course, The Good Fight and The Gilded Age.

She’s also won awards and been nominated for performances in films including Chicago, The Bird Cage, Mama Mia, Into the Woods and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. And then there are those two Tonys, for Best Featured Actress in a Play for The Real Thing in 1984, and Rumors in 1989.

Acting has been good to her, and she has been good to acting. Watch while Lisa and Tandy review both of her best series in this latest episode of The Hollywood Beat.