Cheap Doubt Season 3 is sort of right here, and as we put together for the return of lawyer Jax (Emayatzy Corinealdi) to our screens, there are some large storylines to comply with up on, specifically the one involving her and husband Lewis (McKinley Freeman).
As followers might recall, Season 2 noticed Lewis become involved with a lady named Toni (Tristan Cunningham), whom he bought pregnant throughout a mutual break along with his spouse, Jax. When Toni declared she wished to maintain the newborn, Lewis grappled with what this meant for his household, and Jax was comparatively supportive despite the hurdle this dropped at her mending marriage.
By Season 2’s finish, Toni had gone into labor prematurely, and the newborn was born at 29 weeks. Regardless of being stabilized, the newborn died, and after, Jax and Lewis had been served with a lawsuit from Toni, which claimed they had been chargeable for the newborn’s dying.
So, the place are they mentally as Season 3 picks up? “I believe they’re on the up and up,” Corinealdi informed TV Insider on the Disney Upfronts carpet in Might 2025. “There’s some therapeutic occurring, however I believe Jax is in a spot the place she’s feeling somewhat bit stressed. She desires to get again within the courtroom as a result of, as we noticed in Season 2, she needed to take a little bit of a psychological well being break, so this season, she is able to sink her enamel into one thing. She wants one thing to occur.”
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Followers will recall that Jax was recovering initially of Season 2 after she was taken hostage by a former shopper and lover, Damon (Michael Ealy). And whereas she was hesitant about sure circumstances, Corinealdi reassured that “Jax is able to go” in Season 3 with regards to challenges going through her, whether or not that’s within the courtroom or outdoors of it.
“It’s selecting up form of the place Season 2 left off,” Freeman added. “Hopefully, answering some questions and addressing some issues, however numerous it’s Lewis’s journey to form of determine what his current actuality is and what’s crucial factor, versus generally the concepts that we construct up that develop into obstacles.”
As for the place Jax and Lewis are of their relationship, Corinealdi promised they “are in a great place,” which was teased on the finish of Season 2. “They’re in a spot of therapeutic. They’re leaning into one another a bit extra, feeling safer.”
Freeman reiterated that sentiment as he stated, “One of many issues that Season 2 highlighted was the significance of remedy and the way that can be utilized as a car to seek out frequent floor to construct upon. So hopefully Season 3 is….”
“… Placing the remedy to make use of,” Corinealdi completed Freeman’s assertion.
As for the crew of visitor stars becoming a member of the combination, followers can sit up for Joseph Sikora, Rumer Willis, Lori Harvey, and extra onscreen in Season 3. “They slot in like they’ve been there the entire time, and I believe that’s a credit score to the world that Raamla Mohamed has constructed,” Freeman credited the sequence’s showrunner. “It’s laborious to consider a few of these individuals are simply coming into the present.”
And relaxation assured, Season 2’s recurring visitor star Morris Chestnut can be again as lawyer Corey Money. As Corinealdi put it, “Raamla attracts good folks, good expertise… everybody who is available in simply falls in effortlessly. It seems like we had been at all times purported to be right here, so it’s actually good.”
Don’t miss out on what’s to come back as Cheap Doubt‘s newest chapter kicks off on Hulu, and keep tuned for extra on the sequence within the weeks forward.
Cheap Doubt, Season 3 Premiere, Thursday, September 18, Hulu