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Although I am familiar with the show. It must be said that it's a show which gives me plenty of time to think about other things.

I mainly find myself thinking about how competitive the US TV industry is. How you really have to shout in order to make yourself heard. I also think about how obsessed with woke virtue signalling the industry is at the moment. How much of it you have to bolt-on in order to get your show made.

The show sees Kathy Bate's "Matlock" come out of retirement to go undercover to expose who at the law firm hid evidence which could have taken Opioids off the market much sooner. Potentially saving thousands of lives, including her daughter's. It is shouting from its soapbox so constantly about the Social Issue of the Opioid Epidemic I'm pretty every episodes includes that speech at least once.

Having infiltrated the law firm Matlock is assigned to Skye P. Marshall's "Olympia Lawrence." A highly educated and successful Black woman who is going through a divorce to an equally accomplished White man. All the challenges she faces as she navigates raising mixed-race children in a space where even Black society doesn't think Black people shouldn't be allowed to occupy. To make matters worse the law firm is allowing her to specialise in case for the public good. All of which centre around Social Issues, which really just means more lectures about how racism is bad.

Although underused Leah Lewis' "Sarah Franklin" is one of the few things that lighten the lectures. Apparently she's got a background in comedy. Like Rachel Brosnahan in; "The Blacklist" there does seem to be a comedy performance about to break through the surface at any moment. So I think that in the pilot, which was clipped up for the promo, she deliberately made herself look like Laura Sohn from The Blacklist. All Asians look the same, after all.

I can't help but wonder whether the show would work better without all the uncovering the conspiracy at the law firm story. Matlock simply comes out of retirement because she wants to continue working. Even outside of the Entertainment Industry it's now rare that people in their 70's and even 80's will just sit around all day watching TV with the volume turned all the way up. The Social Issues could be more gently explored through the cases they're working on and their personal lives.

Later today American viewers may well find out. It really feels like the law firm conspiracy story more than ran its course in Season 1.