Even the opening titles of the CBS All Access spinoff underscore the sense of disorder that many people have been feeling since the November 2016 election: Familiar items — a vase, a laptop, a gavel — suddenly explode from within.

The sequence “is a very good representation of our times — everything’s just exploding,” Robert said. “That makes it a very interesting time to write. Not necessarily a better time to live or have kids, but it’s a very interesting time to be writing.”

The Good Fight follows Diane, a central character on The Good Wife, after she has her finances wiped out by a Ponzi scheme and is forced to delay her retirement by finding new work at a largely black law firm, Reddick, Boseman & Kolstad. Joining her are The Good Wife’s Lucca Quinn (Cush Jumbo) and Diane’s goddaughter, Maia Rindell (Rose Leslie) — the daughter of the financial adviser who may have bilked Diane out of millions.

The most recent installments of The Good Fight have explored the limits of freedom of expression. The March 12 episode, “Stoppable: Requiem for an Airdate,” focused on a fictionalized version of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’s Trump-inspired episode, which has not aired, while the March 19 episode, “Social Media and Its Discontents,” guest starred John Cameron Mitchell as a character inspired by recently disgraced alt-right personality Milo Yiannopoulos. The fear of censorship is a particularly pressing concern for the executive producers of a politically charged TV series.

“The worrisome thing is, the show survives on saying things that outrage people,” Robert said. “These are the things that people get into fights talking about, whether religion or sex or money, and so to have free speech under threat, or [Trump] calling the press the enemy of the people is worrisome.”

The Kings stressed that they have not had to face any censorship head-on: CBS has been supportive of everything they’ve wanted to do on the series. (And The Good Fight, because it’s streaming, also allows for the swear words and bare asses that couldn’t make it onto The Good Wife.)