peter1221 — 1 year ago(September 27, 2024 08:21 AM)

Summary: The main character "Madeline Matlock" isn't really named Matlock. That is just an alias she based on the television character Matlock as she attempts to covertly take on the opioid manufacturers who she blames for the death of her daughter.
https://tvline.com/interviews/matlock-cbs-premiere-twist-ending-madeline-kingston-revenge-dead-daughter-1235337411/
Debuting Sunday night in a special time slot, Matlock stars Emmy and Academy Award winner Kathy Bates as Madeline “Matty” Matlock, a septuagenarian who uses her “invisible” older woman status to procure intel on a pending court case and in doing so finagle herself a job at the prestigious Jacobson Moore law firm in New York.
And yes, Matty is well aware of how her surname evokes the famous TV lawyer played by Andy Griffith on the NBC/ABC series of the same name, from 1986 to 1995.
Assigned to Olympia (Good Sam‘s Skye P. Marshall), a senior attorney and onetime rainmaker for the firm, Matty works alongside younger associates Billy (David Del Rio) and Sarah (Leah Lewis), all the while alluding to her woes as the broke widow of a cheating, gambling husband, and caretaker for her late daughter’s brat of a son.
After coming through with a clutch witness to bolster Olympia’s latest case, Matty turned down celebratory drinks with Billy and Sarah, to instead catch her bus home. Thing is, Matty hopped off the bus after just one stop, then ducked into an alley where a limo driver awaited “Mrs. Kingston.” Matty was then driven to a large, handsome home, where she was greeted by her very-much-alive husband and her doting grandson, Alfie. It was then revealed, bit by bit, that Alfie had backstopped his grandma’s new identity with a LinkedIn profile and such, and how “Matlock” was chosen both a tribute to his late mom Ellie’s favorite TV show, and to disarm Matty’s coworkers with its folksy familiarity.
Avenging Ellie’s death, which was due to opiates not taken off the market soon enough by Jacobson Moore’s big pharma client, is Madeline’s true mission — and Olympia, Olympia’s ex-husband Julian (Jason Ritter), and firm founder Senior (Beau Bridges) are each in her crosshairs….