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I love that Colter did act, he popped those creepy cult guys like balloons. I was mostly thinking, "Dude, you couldn't have done that 25 minutes ago?"

"Poor" Kathy Bates will be able to buy a second or third home out the money she'll rake in for this show. Beyond that Mattie likes Sarah and Mattie is a terrifying enemy to have.

Olympia wants Mattie gone from the firm but right now they're stuck with each other. Olympia isn't a fool. She knows that whatever Mattie promises, there's no way her family isn't ruined if it comes out that Julian stole the study. At the same time, Olympia can't just go with Julian's plan of "shred the study." Beyond the ethical violation, she knows how resourceful (and ruthless) Mattie is. She knows Mattie will figure it out and nuke their family with what she already has. The only way that Olympia and her kids survive this intact is if the law/media has a much bigger target on which to focus - Senior himself. Getting Senior (and getting her family out from under this nightmare) means that she's going to need ruthless, resourceful Mattie at Jacobson, Moore to help her. She, Mattie and Julian don't have to like each other to recognize that they have strong common ground in enemies with Senior.

The Wellbrexa case is "solved" in terms of "the audience and the deeply involved characters know what happened." It's similar to Season One of Veronica Mars with its "Who killed Lily Kane?" mystery. We learn who that person was at the end of that season. Bringing that person to justice (or something like it) was part of the focus of Season 2. As far as Season 2 of this show, I think there's going to be a pivot away from the Wellbrexa stuff and toward bringing Senior to justice (or something like it) for that and likely plenty of other shady, awful shit that he's done. Which likely will mean bringing in Julian as a member of Mattie' cabal. I mean, come on. Jason Ritter is a main cast member of the show. Beau Bridges is not. In the world of this show, opioids are now "off the market" or at least far more tightly controlled. Mattie/Madeline's goal wasn't to "get them off the market" but to hold accountable those who did crimes to keep them from going off the market sooner (and thus helped kill her daughter). Roasting Julian and sending him to prison might be satisfying to Mattie and family, but Julian was ultimately just a tool for Senior. It'd be like melting a murder weapon but letting the killer go free.

Yay Sarah! Boo Simone! Fuck you, show! Fall is too long to wait!

If anything that makes her scarier. Maybe her nickname was "The Hammer."

I'm really looking forward to next week and Olympia getting to know Madeline Kingston, who's probably a lot scarier than "Mattie Matlock." This is a woman who legally changed her name, passed the New York Bar and had a "paramedic" SWAT team on standby to rescue her from the firm's security if need be. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Madeline Kingston was the Senior at her old firm.

A one-sided annulment isn't available in our real world NY, but maybe there's one available in "Legal Fantasy BS" NY. Meanwhile a couple of times Kathy Bates was channeling some major Annie Wilkes ankle-breaker energy tonight. I felt really bad for Olympia tearing her house apart looking for Evil Pens. Sarah was particularly adorable tonight. I can't wait until next weak when Olympia gets to see the Kingston Wall of Crazy.

Wonser De-Gbon as Sherry was really hot. I liked her role.

Obviously that happened when one of Agent Woo's close-up magic tricks went horribly awry, causing him to turn evil and become Moriarty. For my money the best Moriarty is still Natalie Dormer.

Molly was cute. I hope she gets actual lines in the future. Am I the only thinking that Sarah and Simone are going to hate-fuck at some point?

I predict the show will end with the cops arresting Colter for like 5000 instances of unlawful entry. Also, what was that movie/show being played TV in PJ's house?

I came into this late. This started over a Reddit post? Seriously? So if I'd posted that the Opiod crisis was started because Vampire Elvis took a break from using the pixie dust exhaust from his invisible, magic, UFO to try to use "chem-trails" to block the Sun, I'd have had Matty after his (obviously fictional) ass? That said, and make the story more interesting to me. I like the idea that she isn't some saintly heroine and that her quest for justice/revenge is likely going to leave a good bit of collateral damage inflicted on folks who don't deserve it. If Kathy Bates is starring in a TV show, I kind of want to see her channel a little bit of Annie Wilkes sometimes.

Did you want the show to spend a full year on "mean, weepy sorority girl accused of manslaughter?" I know I didn't. I wouldn't mind it if next year the show did a "Murder One" thing of following some twisty murder case from start to finish (with plenty of other, lesser cases sprinkled in). Right now, though, I'm a little more interested in "Matty solves the Opiod Epidemic" or whatever than in realistic legalese.

Honestly, if you're watching this show like it's Law and Order, you're watching it wrong. Matlock is basically an even goofier version of Boston Legal sadly without the eloquence of James Spader on his soapbox.

So maybe Billy and Sarah will both end up dating Simone?

I'm really hoping that we're not going to some weird relationship triangle between Billy, Simone and Sarah.

One thing I just found which is new, or at least, new me, is that Season Five did not start with Episode 1. It started with an Episode 0, which can be found here: https://play.history.com/shows/forged-in-fire/season-5/episode-0

Sarah reminds me a little of the Huntress from Birds of Prey. Sarah is extremely competent at being an assassin, er, lawyer, but incredibly socially awkward at almost everything outside of that.

Or Grandad got a baby-sitter. Or Alfie can be trusted to look after himself for a couple of days given that he's also a member of their conspiracy to avenge his mother. Meanwhile Sarah being a psuedo-Shakespearean villain with her quotes will never not be adorable and funny.

Sarah isn't a villain doing a monologue. This is more like an honorable formal declaration of war. Sarah became very vulnerable with Matty and revealed something deeply personal to her. Then, as a tactic to avoid discovery, Matty essentially betrayed Sarah in giving first chair to Billy. Meanwhile, I need to pay more attention. I didn't realize that Jason Ritter was Julian and not Billy (Holy Shit. Dipper Pines is almost 45). Also, Edwin Kingston is played by Sam Anderson AKA Holland Manners, the King of Evil Lawyers from Angel.

We also got Patricia Belcher from Bones and Sam Anderson from Angel.

I haven't actually finished 10.13, but I was mildly disappointed that neither contestant chose John Rambo's survival knife. It's a knife with a saw-back spine that was designed by actual human people to be used by other actual human people. No elves, no video game stuff.

So the Collin Sage vs Steve Koster competition was kind of awful. No one looked good at the end. Collin Sage is "Unbeaten" with a blade in three pieces during the KEAL test. Steve Koster looks like a spoilsport for being pissed about failing to meet the parameters of the weapon that he picked for the challenge. And the judges remind us with their "Rules are rules" stuff how often those rules have been arbitrary guidelines in the past. I recall multiple episodes where multiple participants have failed to meet parameters but have been allowed to continue because [insert dumb justification in this space].

Just saw an ad on History that a new season is coming October 2.