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Matlock

This is not your grandma's Matlock… but also it sort of is?

It’s a reboot of the original TV show starring an elder Andy Griffith as a criminal defense attorney … sort of. In the new version, Kathy Bates plays Madeleine Matlock, who talks her way into a new job at a high-powered law firm because she’s become the primary caregiver for her grandson, and she tells her colleagues that it’s just a coincidence that her last name is Matlock, like on the old TV show. Except! At the end of the pilot there’s a twist! Not everything about Madeleine Matlock is as it seems! — Kathryn VanArendonk, “Now That’s What I Call Network TV!”

  1. Episode 2 Rome in a Day
    Matlock Recap: Rope-a-Dope Matty’s attempts to win over her boss have mixed results.
  2. Episode 1 Pilot
    Matlock Season-Premiere Recap: Not What You’d Expect Kathy Bates is terrific to watch in the not-quite-a-remake, not-quite-a-reboot version of Matlock.

The Latest on Matlock

  1. buffering
    ‘I Wanted to Promise a Twist’: How CBS Got People to Watch a Matlock Reboot“We certainly would never set out to disparage what Matlock was,” says CBS’s head of marketing.
    By Josef Adalian
  2. network notes
    Now That’s What I Call Network TVA promising slate of new dramas counters prestige fatigue with tried-and-true procedural appeal.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  3. obits
    Andy Griffith Dead at 86Mayberry’s flags are at half-staff.
    By Margaret Lyons