Opinion | The Only TV Show That Gets Life Under Trump

Except, that is, for “The Good Fight,” the only TV show that reflects what life under Trump feels like for many of us who abhor him. Its showrunners, the married couple Michelle and Robert King, have figured out how to alchemize our berserk era into entertainment. When historians look back at this ghastly moment — if there are still historians when it’s over — this fizzy, mordant cult series will likely be one of its richest artifacts. It’s a balm, a reminder, on days when I feel like I’m cracking up, that it’s really the world that’s gone crazy.

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“It is therapeutic to be in the writers’ room with seven other writers who are incredibly smart and want to talk about the news in granular detail, and try to make sense of things,” Michelle King told me. Robert added, “We start every morning, before we even start talking about plot and character, just vomiting out the day’s news.”

There’s a character based on Milo Yiannopoulos, played by John Cameron Mitchell, and a mock version of “Pod Save America” called “America Goes Poddy.” The lawyers at Diane’s firm get their hands on the fabled pee tape, and, in scenes that pay homage to “All the President’s Men,” Diane receives information from a porn star who was impregnated by Trump and had an abortion. This season, the show has spliced animated musical shorts into every episode on subjects like Russian internet trolls, nondisclosure agreements and Roy Cohn.

“The Good Fight” is a spinoff of “The Good Wife,” the CBS drama about a lawyer, Alicia Florrick, who has to rebuild her life after her Democratic politician husband is caught with prostitutes. Diane, who was Alicia’s boss on the earlier show, is a glass-ceiling-breaking lawyer who keeps a framed picture of herself with Hillary Clinton. “In terms of making a show that reflects what people are feeling right now, we had the benefit of actually having created a character who deeply identified with Democratic causes,” Michelle King said.