This text incorporates spoilers for the two-part Matlock season 1 finale, "Tips of the Commerce."

Don't let the identify idiot you — CBS' Matlock isn't a straight remake of the '80s authorized drama starring Andy Griffith. Kathy Bates' brassy lawyer may go by the moniker Madeline Matlock, but it surely's simply an alias born from the character's love of the present. Matty's character is a creation all her personal.

The brand new Matlock was created by Jane the Virgin alum Jennie Snyder Urman, whose venture captures the essence of Griffith's Matlock whereas giving it a freshness in tone and subject material. Bates' Matty begins the sequence as a lawyer who comes out of retirement to take a job at a high-powered New York Metropolis agency, Jacobson Moore. Her causes, we come to study, have much less to do with cash than they do with a mission of justice.

Bates beforehand spoke with Entertainment Weekly about how the sequence differs from its predecessor.

"Andy Griffith's iconic present from the '80s — it’s an episodic. Our present does have a case each week, however there's additionally a serial side to it — a thread that goes by all the episodes," Bates defined. "After I noticed that it was about one thing actually present and necessary to speak about and to see, that appealed to me."

Season 1 proved to be an enormous hit for CBS, so that you're not the one one questioning if there will likely be a season 2 of Matlock. Learn on for all the pieces we find out about Matlock season 2, together with its potential launch date, forged, plot, and extra.

Will there be a second season of Matlock?

Sure, there will likely be a Matlock season 2. A superb factor contemplating all the cliffhangers within the season 1 finale.

This comes as little shock, as Paramount reviews that a mean of 17 million viewers watched the sequence' first season throughout broadcast and streaming. In line with Nielsen and different sources, Matlock was the primary new broadcast sequence in multi-platform viewing (and the quantity two broadcast sequence general).

What occurred on the finish of Matlock season 1?

All through Matlock's debut season, Bates' Matty took it upon herself to (quietly) examine her fellow attorneys at Jacobson Moore to uncover the snake who conspired with drug firm WellBrexa to maintain opioids available on the market. This was a very significant case for Matty, provided that her daughter died from an overdose.

The villain, we discovered, was an unlikely one: Jason Ritter's Julian Markston. (Who may ever suspect a Ritter?) This led to a tearful confrontation between Julian and Olympia, his soon-to-be-ex-wife, through which the lawyer revealed he was solely making an attempt to please his father, managing associate Howard "Senior" (Beau Bridges).

It additionally left audiences with a handful of cliffhangers that set the stage for Matlock's second season. We'll unpack these under.

What’s Matlock season 2 about?

Season 1 ended with the swag of a present that's been renewed for a half-dozen extra seasons, leaving viewers with a number of evolving storylines and tantalizing questions.

First, in fact, is the query of how Matty and Olympia will reckon with Julian's betrayal and the complicity of Howard who, along with being Olympia's senior, can be her ex-father-in-law.

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One other curious twist includes Matty's grandson, tech whiz Alfie (Aaron Harris), who she's been caring for because the demise of her daughter. Within the finale, a knock on the door introduces us to a stranger performed by Niko Nicotera, who claims to be Alfie's father.

This received't be a walk-on position. Talking in regards to the season 1 finale with EW, Urman mentioned she's "actually excited to get into their story and what he brings to the present and the way he complicates Matty's most sacred place, which is her residence."

After which there's Billy, the younger lawyer performed by David Del Rio. His romantic entanglements have been a spotlight of season 1, and that's prone to proceed subsequent season. His ex, Claudia (Bella Ortiz), is pregnant, which is able to certainly throw a wrench into his newfound relationship with junior associate Simone (Andrea Londo) — particularly if it seems to be his.

Urman informed EW that the revelation was a fruitful technique of "destabilizing" Billy, who, after breaking apart with Claudia, was "lastly seeking to the long run."

She added that it raises a complete host of juicy questions for the writers to reply.

"Is she having a child? Is she not having the infant? And he's the final word individuals pleaser, so what’s he going to do and what does he need? All of that," she mentioned. "However simply by way of placing your characters in a model new headspace on the high of the following season, that's as large because it will get, and it seems like an thrilling, enjoyable space that has loads of each comedy and drama, which David performs each of so properly, so I can't wait."

Urman additionally teases the "fascinating locations" she sees Billy and Julian veering into subsequent season. If that feels like an unlikely coupling, that's the purpose. "I'm actually excited for brand spanking new pairings," she mentioned.

Who's within the Matlock season 2 forged?

The Matlock season 2 forged isn't confirmed simply but, but it surely's protected to say you may't have this iteration of the sequence with out Bates' Matty. Bates, too, isn't itching to go wherever.

"I would like it to run for years. It's that nice," she informed us final yr.

Marshall's Olympia, too, will proceed to be a driving drive in season 2.

"We get to proceed to discover this epic love story between Olympia and Matty, and any epic love story goes to have twists and turns: will they or received't they, and may they discover their method again to one another?" Urman informed EW. "However the friendship that they constructed on this first season, regardless of the lie on the middle of it, was actual and deep and uncommon and significant and life-affirming for each of them."

She continued, "They're separated once more, and I believe in all epic love tales, you're going to need them to search out their method again to one another, and I'm excited to maintain writing towards that."

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Urman additionally mentions characters like Alfie, Billy, Claudia, and Simone, so we're assured in saying Harris, Del Rio, Ortiz, and Londo are sticking round. We're additionally guessing that Leah Lewis' first-year affiliate Sarah isn't going wherever, essential as she is to the workforce's sleuthing.

And don't count on Ritter's Julian to fall by the wayside. He informed EW that he's jazzed to have a "entrance row seat" for the sequence' future. He's additionally hoping you may forgive Julian.

"As Julian's actor, I'm like his little lawyer," mentioned Ritter. "So I get to determine how you can make this man who did this horrible factor sympathetic, how we are able to nonetheless see his humanity by this fully terrible act that he did."

After which there's Nicotera's no-longer-absent father. Urman revealed to EW that it was Bates herself who really helpful the actor.

"She had labored with Niko on Richard Jewell, and simply believed in him as an actor and knew how nice he was," she mentioned. "She informed me about him early on — I believe on the pilot stage — and I'm undoubtedly going to take casting recommendation from Kathy Bates — fairly good style!"

Is there a Matlock season 2 launch date?

Not but, however don't count on to attend three years for a brand new season. Deadline reviews that the plan is for Matlock to return for the community's 2025-26 broadcast season.

The place can I watch Matlock?

Season 1 of Matlock is now streaming on Paramount+, as are all 9 seasons of Andy Griffith's OG Matlock.

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