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‘Matlock’ Boss on Solving the Big Opioid Cover-Up in the Finale, Whether Olympia Can Forgive Matty and What’s Next for Season 2
In the Season 1 finale of 'Matlock,' Olympia helps Matty learn the truth about the opioid cover up — creator Jennie Snyder Urman talks Season 2.
Rather than a simple, gender-flipped reboot, widowed lawyer Madeline “Matty” Matlock (Kathy Bates) joined law fim Jacobson Moore spouting downhome Southern wisdom, while displaying sharp legal skills — and quickly ingratiated herself with her colleagues. And rather than having to go back to work because her husband had gambled away all their money before he died, she was, in fact, a wealthy lawyer on a personal mission to find out who at the prestigious firm had been responsible for burying vital opioid documents from pharmaceutical company Wellbrexa that could have saved lives of addicts — including Matty’s deceased daughter, Ellie. We also find out Julian is actually guilty at the very end, and that he was acting on behalf Senior (Beau Bridges), his father, in taking the missing Wellbrexa documents years ago.
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