--- ---  # Archie Panjabi Says Time Was Right for _The Good Wife_ Exit by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin May 11, 2015 1:56 PM UTC  Archie Panjabi as Kalinda Sharma of the CBS series The Good Wife. Archie Panjabi as Kalinda Sharma of the CBS series The Good Wife.Justin Stephens—CBS by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin May 11, 2015 1:56 PM UTC Kalinda Sharma left _The Good Wife_ in the season 6 finale Sunday night — and actress Archie Panjabi has no regrets about her character leaving the hit CBS show. Panjabi [spoke to](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/05/10/archie-panjabi-good-wife-exit-interview)[ _Entertainment Weekly_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/05/10/archie-panjabi-good-wife-exit-interview) about why the time was right for Kalinda to leave the show behind. “In terms of the character, I think Kalinda’s evolution over the series is kind of culminating to what I believe to be the perfect time for her exit,” Panjabi said. “She was dissatisfied with the job, coupled with troubling issues she’s had with Lemond Bishop and the ever-present kind of friction she’s had with Alicia, kind of tied the bow on Kalinda’s arc. It was the right time.” There were no tears on her final day on set, she added: “It was just a mixture of feeling sad to leave, but that every bone in my body was like this just right feels right. So I guess I felt very calm.” [_Read more at Entertainment Weekly._](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/05/10/archie-panjabi-good-wife-exit-interview) Archie Panjabi Speaks About Her 'The Good Wife' Exit ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3853582/archie-panjabi-good-wife-exit/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3853582/archie-panjabi-good-wife-exit/"},"headline":"Archie Panjabi Says Time Was Right for The Good Wife Exit","datePublished":"2015-05-11T13:56:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T07:05:17.511Z","description":"\"Every bone in my body was like this just right feels right\"","url":"https://time.com/3853582/archie-panjabi-good-wife-exit/","keywords":["Television","TV","the good wife"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbaf642a72d63122a/6987ef2acd68480da509df65/105386_d3150b.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbaf642a72d63122a/6987ef2acd68480da509df65/105386_d3150b.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Archie Panjabi as Kalinda Sharma of the CBS series The Good Wife.","caption":"Archie Panjabi as Kalinda Sharma of the CBS series The Good Wife.","creditText":"Justin Stephens—CBS","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3853582/archie-panjabi-good-wife-exit/","name":"Archie Panjabi Says Time Was Right for The Good Wife Exit"}}]}] ```