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By Kayla DeKraker
CBS’s MATLOCK just concluded Season 2, and fans want to know what’s ahead in Season 3.
“I felt like they, as smart people, would have reached the end of the investigation,” creator Jennie Snyder Urman told TV Line of why they ended Season 2 the way they did. “There were not that many clues we could dig up. We were going to, otherwise, be sending them forward and taking four steps back all the time. It felt like we had all the pieces in place, and we knew we didn’t want it to be beyond two seasons for that particular storyline.”
Spoilers ahead!
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Season 2 ended with Senior and Julian being arrested for the Wellbrexa scandal. Although this was a major development in the story, Season 3 will focus on a different storyline, jumping ahead six to nine months later, according to TV Series Finale.
“That’s why I’m grateful for midseason, because we have to create a whole new spine, and that’s what we talked about with the network,” Urman explained. “We need time to make sure that it comes in organically and that it gives us everything Wellbrexa does, but it’s totally different. So, I’m grateful that we’ve got that time to plan.”
She noted, “I’d say it’s like a creative reboot, but like a creative continuation. To me, it’s the next iteration of storytelling. I don’t like to be in patterns. I like to always push storytelling forward. I think what you’ll know is that there’s always going to be a case of the week.”
As far as what is to come, Urman revealed, “Everyone’s going to be in different places. A handful of people know who Matty is, but she’s accepted that she’s going to be Matty Matlock in this world, too. So she is living in that in a different way. Her relationship with Edwin continues to change. There are just a lot of new dynamics that come in as a result of the events of the end of the season.”
In its short time on air, MATLOCK has won and been nominated for multiple awards, including two Golden Globe nominations and a Prime Time Emmy nomination. Star Kathy Bates won the 2025 Critics Choice Award and Satellite Award, among others.
Movieguide reviewed season 1 of MATLOCK, saying, “Episode 1 of MATLOCK is a reboot of a classic legal drama on CBS-TV. It stars Kathy Bates as Madeline Matlock, an aging female lawyer who returns from retirement…The pilot episode of the new MATLOCK is fun and compelling, with a clever performance by Kathy Bates as the title character. The episode places strong emphasis on justice and family.”
MATLOCK Season 3 is set to premiere early 2027.
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