Warning: SPOILERS for Matlock Season 1, Episode 11 – “A Traitor in Thine Personal Home” are in play. Should you’re not present with the collection, you’ve been warned.
For us viewers, the 2025 TV schedule is an thrilling time filled with suspense and twists, with some lighthearted comedy blended in, should you please. That’s the form of tone that Kathy Bates’ award successful reboot of Matlock embraces, and as of late, issues have been getting fairly severe. Final week’s heartbreaking twist for Sarah Yang is on the coronary heart of it, as she’s made a brand new pal that might spell severe hassle for Madeline Kingston’s double life.
Shae Banfield And Sarah Yang New Alliance Towards Matty Is On Pause
What occurs once you pair a lately spurned upstart with a human lie detector? Effectively, if there’s mutual mistrust of a colleague concerned, it appears one thing like Shae Banfield’s (Yael Grobglas) staff up with Sarah Yang (Leah Lewis). Each have their suspicions of the girl often known as Matty Matlock (Kathy Bates), and it’s led them to analyze the scant leads into her mysterious authorized previous.
Matlock’s newest episode places these two crafty ladies collectively to smell out what they’ll about their mutual considerations. And in an formidable transfer, we see Shae go right down to Savannah, Georgia to analyze a seemingly surefire lead that’ll spotlight Matty’s shifting job duties because the least of her worries.
Besides that it doesn’t, as a result of the twist of the week is that Madeline dropped these breadcrumbs herself. Aided by her husband Edwin (Sam Anderson) taking part in the function of an “outdated colleague,” Matty finds herself sitting fairly within the second.
So what do Shae’s efforts yield, besides much more fallout from Matlock’s emotional Christmas episode? A report back to HR, and the eye of Howard “Senior” Markston (Beau Bridges), who stops by on the finish of the episode to talk with Matty. Burnt for the second, Shae tells Sarah to put off Matty, which sends this member of Group You Three working to the mentorship of Olympia (Skye P. Marshall).
Whereas this week’s case file might want us to imagine that these two received’t proceed to try to unearth Madeline’s true id, I don’t assume that’s true by an extended shot. Actually, Shae Banfield is about to turn into much more essential to Matlock’s net of intrigue due to some new particulars that have been delivered to gentle.
The Welbrexa Thriller Continues To Heart Round Shae Banfield
As you could bear in mind in my newest Matlock principle about who’s accountable for the disappearance of these essential Welbrexa recordsdata, Shae Banfield has crept nearer to the highest of the record. Whereas Madeline Kingston nonetheless has aspiring associate/nepo child Julian Markston (Jason Ritter) because the prime suspect, the significance of Shae to this case has slowly been bolstered.
Tonight’s revelation made that ever clearer, as we realized that Ms. Banfield labored for Advertising at Welbrexa, earlier than crossing over to Jacobson Moore as an in-house jury guide. Which suggests these vanishing docs might have been advertising and marketing supplies.
Making issues worse, Julian’s avoidance of any form of forensic accounting in his divorce from Olympia (Skye P. Marshall) appears to trace that their brownstone might have been purchased with shady cash. So Senior’s son will not be completely off the hook simply but.
I solely specific that caveat of warning as a result of after that cryptic chat with Howard Markston (Beau Bridges) on the finish of “A Traitor in Thine Personal Home.” As Matty’s query about whether or not or not Shae has any form of filth on him struck a nerve, maybe The Meerkat is aware of who that mysterious lady from the photograph in Sydney is.
Irrespective of the way you slice it, Shae Banfield appears like dangerous information. Madeline Kingston must be much more cautious round much more of her co-workers at Jacobson Moore now, and I feel Sarah continues to be ready for the precise second to strike. Paramount+ subscription holders, be happy to disagree with me should you’ve seen some proof I failed to select up throughout discovery.
For now, that’s the top of our weekly journey into the authorized dramedy of Matlock. We’ll reconvene subsequent Thursday after 9 PM ET, as that is when the episode entitled “That is That Second” will air on CBS. Till then, this week’s session is adjourned, as I have to put collectively my very own conspiracy board, code named “Shae Watch.”