Can Matlock surprise us again?

A year ago, writer-producer Jennie Snyder Urman’s Matlock reboot knocked viewers and critics flat with a series premiere that defied expectations, taking what everybody assumed would be a cozy, CBS-friendly procedural — about a sweet old-lady lawyer, with Oscar winner Kathy Bates paying homage to the late, great Andy Griffith — and spinning it in a wholly unexpected direction. That sweet old-lady lawyer? She’s actually a rich, righteous old liar, working undercover at the white-shoe New York law firm of Jacobson Moore to expose its culpability in the opioid epidemic that claimed the life of her daughter, Ellie.

The twists kept coming throughout season one, all the way up to the finale. Madeline Kingston, posing as the folksy, broke, widowed “Matty” Ma

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