Warning; spoilers for Matlock, Season 1 Episode 17 “I Was That Too,” are in play.
By the tip of final week’s Matlock episode, a easy however important query hung within the air. Kathy Bates’ double agent of justice gave the impression to be cooked within the 2025 TV schedule after Skye P. Marshall’s Olympia Lawrence requested, “Who the hell are you, Madeline Matlock?” After watching the penultimate episode of Season 1, I now know that confrontation was solely the start, and I believe its shockwaves may see us saying goodbye to the Welbrexa case as soon as and for all.
Olympia And Matty Are Now Companions
Simply as I suspected in final week’s rundown, the episode title for this week’s Matlock referenced Olympia calling Matty out on her elaborate ruse. Choosing up within the second after confronting our hero exterior of her bus, we see our lead characters all holed up at Jacobson Moore for the night time. Sure, that features Billy (David Del Rio) and Sarah (Leah Lewis), who sadly didn’t depart the workplace earlier than being drafted into an all-nighter.
In a narrative harking back to real-time dramas like The Pitt and 24, we comply with a final minute case that noticed a pregnant shopper making an attempt to flee her controlling husband earlier than giving start. In the meantime, Madeline Matlock was writing out a confession that spun the Welbrexa Situation – a story of greed, conspiracy, and habit. My remaining Matlock large dangerous prediction appears to have aged like milk.
As Olympia now suspects Julian (Jason Ritter) might have purchased the brownstone with a bribe in spite of everything, Ms. Lawrence and Ms. Matlock (her authorized title, because of a intelligent title change) are actually on the trail to show who stole the Welbrexa security research that inadvertently led to Ellie Kingston’s overdose.
Matlock Has To Drastically Change After The Welbrexa Case Is Closed
Proper from Matlock’s shock pilot ending the system for the sequence has been Madeline and her household in opposition to Jacobson Moore. Appearing as a kind of authorized David and Goliath, the battle saved getting extra sophisticated as Matty and Olympia finally grew to become associates. Whereas that curveball did assist transfer this thriller ahead, the fallout of regardless of the Welbrexa thriller brings appears to be one thing that may essentially change showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman’s grasp plan.
On one hand, I may completely see that occuring, as I’d guess that Group Matlock deliberate a one-season thriller, simply in case the cancellation axe swung down arduous. If that’s the case, then my desires of Olympia and Group You Three beginning a agency with the Kingston household (together with Julie Hagerty’s Bitsy) on workers may come true.
Nonetheless, because of Matlock’s early Season 2 pickup, there’s an opportunity that even when that was the case, issues may have modified. A brand new ending might have been written the place the Welbrexa thriller persists, changing into much more essential within the season to return. During which case, we’ll most likely be left on a whopper of a cliffhanger that lets us know the experience is way from over.
Both occasion is legitimate, as “I Was That Too” might very nicely be the perfect of Matlock’s Season 1 episodes. Pitting Olympia in opposition to Matty in a a lot milder model of a Jack Bauer interrogation from 24 amped up the drama, with Skye P. Marshall and Kathy Bates digging even deeper into their skillsets.
That solely has me wanting ahead to subsequent week’s two-hour finale, “Methods of the Commerce,” with much more pleasure. As a result of if Ms. Marshall’s tease for Season 1’s nearer has been realized this night, there’s an opportunity that the types we see our characters in now will outline the trajectory of Season 2, and past.