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Matlock Recap: Spilt Milk


Matty’s feelings about her departed daughter begin to weigh on her the further her mission within Jacobson-Moore goes.

The factory’s gruff, unhelpful foreman, Harold P. Wong (Christopher Cho), has recently left the company under suspicious circumstances, and the safety upgrades made on the line since his departure suggest that the defendants knew they were negligent. • I appreciate that Matlock has — in small but noticeable ways — regularly reminded the audience that Olympia’s experiences as a Black woman operating at the highest levels in a cutthroat occupation will have been notably different than those of, say, a white legacy kid like Julian. Their most fascinating argument is one about Pajama Day at their kids’ school and how, according to Olympia, Black children dressing sloppily in a predominately white classroom — even for a special occasion — may read differently than Julian realizes.

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