‘Matlock’ Boss Teases ‘Drama’ and ‘Trauma’ in Season 2 After Finale Twists (Unique)

WARNING: This text accommodates spoilers from the season 1 finale of Matlock.

The case is closed on Matlock season 1, however the finale had no scarcity of jaw-dropping cliffhangers to go away viewers counting down the times till Season 2.

Within the aftermath of not one, not two, however three main twists, Matlock govt producer Jennie Urman Snyder gave PEOPLE the news on the finale’s greatest moments and teased what’s forward for Matty (Kathy Bates) and the remainder of the present’s characters in season 2. And Snyder makes it clear there’s heaps extra drama to return.

Whereas the episode centered on Sarah (Leah Lewis) attempting (and successful!) her first solo case, her coworkers have been all coping with private dilemmas of their very own. Olympia (Skye P. Marshall) was compelled to face the truth that Matty was proper about Julian (Jason Ritter) stealing the lacking Welbrexa paperwork. In flip, Julian begged his ex to destroy the incriminating papers for the sake of their household.

In the meantime, Billy (David Del Rio) obtained life-changing information from his former fiancée, Claudia (Bella Ortiz), who confirmed up at Jacobson Moore to inform the newly-single lawyer that she’s pregnant following their hookup. Nevertheless, it was Matty who confronted probably the most earth-shattering revelation when Joey (Niko Nicotera), the presumed father of her grandson Alfie (Aaron Harris), arrived on her doorstep searching for his son.

Fortunately, Snyder, 49, was prepared to interrupt down these cliffhangers and extra in a post-finale chat with PEOPLE.

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PEOPLE: Let’s begin with the most important reveal. Julian is the one who hid the Welbrexa paperwork. At what level did you determine it was going to be him?

Jennie Snyder Urman: You already know, we debated rather a lot at first of the season within the writers room, forwards and backwards, however I feel we clamped down on that fairly early as a result of we needed to assemble all of the clues to result in it.

Jason Ritter and Skye P. Marshall have been so good within the scene the place Olympia finds out…

I can not even! We have been all dying to see him. We knew he was going to simply crush it and he got here to the desk learn with that scene all prepared. His efficiency within the present is what he did on the desk learn.

And we have been similar to, “Holy s—, it labored.” He gave such depth and you are feeling so dangerous for Julian. He’s combating for his life and that was the hope that on this ending second, you’ll be like, “Oh no, he did it.” However then really feel for him, , have that empathy, and that is why it was him and never Senior, as a result of we care extra about him within the scheme of our present. He is Olympia’s ex-husband they usually share youngsters collectively and he isn’t a nasty individual. He simply broke my coronary heart in that scene and so did she.

It tears your coronary heart out since you do really feel for him, but it surely places this complete different dynamic on Olympia’s state of affairs. What’s she pondering now?

She is all about justice, however what occurs when it is your loved ones? Then what do you do? That is primary. Quantity two, she’s been like, “Matty, you are loopy, he would by no means have accomplished that, let me show this.” She believed so deeply that it could not be true after which she feels silly. Now, she has simply all the load. What’s the proper factor to do on a macro scale after which on the micro by way of her household, and are these the identical issues? 

She is aware of whichever approach she goes, somebody’s going to get damage. Additionally, there’s this horrible factor that has brought about Matty a lot ache that he did, and he or she’s so mad that he did it. Her best worry about him is that he’s a superb individual till there’s strain placed on him after which he does the better factor and now she has to scrub it up.

It is simply as dangerous because it will get, since you felt just like the hope of a friendship may come for Olympia and Matty, after which Olympia will get this data and in some methods it makes their friendship extra potential, as a result of she is aware of Matty was proper, however to have that occur can be on the expense of her household and it is a horrible, however scrumptious dilemma for season 2.

Is there a state of affairs the place Julian can take accountability for his actions and discover a approach to work with Matty and Olympia?

I feel definitely that is going to be one thing that Olympia goes to be considering, proper? Is there a model the place she will discuss Matty into saving Julian and going after Senior? However so as to do this she must be pulling Matty in… and there is only a lot at stake as soon as she reveals that doc.

It is only a very precarious place and what Matty thought she was up for adjustments due to that final shot within the present of Joey displaying up. Earlier than that occurred, she was like, “Yeah, Olympia don’t fret, we’ll search for the reality, so I will allow you to in your journey to get Senior.” Then Joey got here to the home and this man is saying that he is perhaps her grandchild’s father and her complete world is the wrong way up and every part appears to be like completely different. 

It is only a new world order that Olympia has to deal with when she will get to see Matty subsequent.

For Matty, she’s hit with this big bombshell when Alfie’s dad reveals up on the doorstep. How huge of a menace is he going to be to her household unit? 

The largest earthquake definitely in her life that she may think about is that he comes again. He destabilizes every part. The one agency floor she has is that this residence relationship and it’s the one relationship that hasn’t been examined or tried is her and Alfie’s.

They’ve been rising in the identical course, they have been co-conspirators they usually’ve been one another’s finest associates. And if this individual is available in and it’s his father, what does that do? And who’s he? And what dynamic is he going to herald? Immediately, quite a lot of issues at residence are uncontrolled and that’s actually scary for Matty. It’s onerous to maintain all the balls within the air, it is a huge destabilizing drive.

Matty and Olympia’s partnership is a lot on the coronary heart of the present. Now that Olympia is aware of about Julian’s involvement, is there nonetheless a approach ahead for her and Matty?

I imply, they solid an attractive relationship when Matty was holding a large secret over Olympia’s head, proper? So doubtlessly, Olympia thinks possibly I may maintain this [secret]. You already know their relationship is absolutely what’s at stake within the subsequent season.

It is all the time my favourite a part of the present is that this relationship and this love story and like all huge, epic love tales it will be tried and examined and they are going to be aside after which collectively and that’s how we construct the present. We construct it round that backbone of that friendship.

Let’s pivot to Billy. What was the pondering with that bombshell that he’ll be a dad simply as he’s planning on having fun with being single?

I feel it’s precisely as you stated, you lastly come to the purpose when he is glad to be single after which how can we complicate his life probably the most within the greatest approach that may convey us quite a lot of drama, however that additionally may occur and it feels actual and form of places him in a very completely different place than he was in season 1. It actually opens up all types of [questions]: to start with, is Claudia gonna have the child? Is she not? It simply opens up quite a lot of avenues for drama, and I might say trauma, for Billy, and for methods for Sarah to indicate up for him, methods for different characters to unexpectedly present up for him. He’s bought a enjoyable storyline this 12 months.

Was it all the time the plan to finish season 1 with Matty’s identification below wraps for everybody besides Olympia?

Sure, that was all the time the plan. The Matty Matlock persona continues to be entrance and heart within the regulation agency, I’ll say, for a bunch of causes. There are stunning developments about who will get learn into the reality and when.

Is there anything you’d wish to tease or simply talk about? Season 1 has been such a journey. 

I simply wish to thank folks for giving us the possibility and happening this street with us, and I hope this ending is satisfying but additionally it actually makes you understand how far more story now we have to inform within the second season. 

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