TV #19 of 2026: Matlock, season 2 The modern gender-swapped Matlock is a CBS legal procedural that loves to over-explain things to its audience, but I still rated the debut season at four-out-of-five stars for how propulsively fun the core premise can be at its best: an elderly lawyer infiltrating a law firm under an …
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TV Review: Matlock, season 1
TV #18 of 2025: Matlock, season 1 Look, was there any pressing need for a modern reboot of Matlock, that 80s/90s procedural about the elderly lawyer perpetually underestimated for his age and folksy ways? Of course not. But if you’re a CBS executive who’s going to greenlight that project anyway, you could do worse than …
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