Madeline “Matty” Matlock conquered the bar exam long ago, but in Matlock’s second season, she’s about to take on a very different kind of bar: a karaoke bar.
“I want her singing karaoke this year!” the hit series’ executive producer and showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman told Gold Derby at an FYC event at the Directors Guild Theater. It was an unexpected nod to star Kathy Bates’ wide-ranging talents — Bates is also an accomplished singer.
“I think it would be fun,” said Bates, considering the idea. “I think as far as Jennie’s concerned, anything’s up for grabs at this point.”
Urman, Bates, and the rest of the cast and creative team gathered to celebrate the success of CBS’ thoroughly reimagined legal drama, based on the popular Andy Griffith series from the ’80s and ’90s. A rare blockbuster on broadcast TV in the streaming era, the show is already gearing up for a second season, with the creators teasing what’s to come.
“We’re going to see Matty now get more blindsided about things that she didn’t realize,” Bates hinted. “She’s gotten invested in these people. Now, she’s being taken along for the ride. These are things that she hasn’t prepared for, so I think that’s what’s going to be exciting about the second season.”
“Matty, in this second season, is not in control the way that she was — in the first season she was the puppet master,” Urman revealed of the series which also stars Skye P. Marshall and Jason Ritter. “And so what happens to a character like that when suddenly they’re out of control? And that’s going to be really interesting to watch.”
