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Matlock Season-Premiere Recap: Not What You’d Expect


Kathy Bates is terrific to watch in the not-quite-a-remake, not-quite-a-reboot version of Matlock.

At the end of the first episode, we see Maddy slip away from her co-workers and into a waiting limousine that takes her to the fancy mansion she shares with her not- ex- husband, Edwin (Sam Anderson), and their very grateful grandson, Alfie (Aaron D. Harris). Maddy’s two-week tryout sees her working with two other junior associates — the by-the-books go-getter Sarah Yang (Leah Lewis) and the more chill Billy Martinez (David Del Rio) — in assisting the icy and driven Olympia Lawrence (Skye P. Marshall), a former JM rainmaker who now wants to prove to her bosses that she can make just as much money for the firm with social-justice causes. But Senior’s patience is wearing thin with a case that has taken six months with no big payout yet: a headline-grabbing lawsuit against the NYPD on behalf of Raymond Harris (Rothaford Gray), who spent 26 years in prison after being hounded into giving a false confession.

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