We focus in on getting the characters to wherever they need to be for their season arcs to close out. It’s clear that the writers have a plan in mind and the entirety of this season has been leading to this, even if the pacing hasn’t always shown that throughout this season. We see Sarah’s feeling of not belonging get to her and lead to her making a decision on who’s team she wants to be on, we see Matty, Olympia, and Julian getting closer than ever before to justice for the Wellbrexa documents, we see the merger finally coming to fruition. And it all flows very nicely, so smooth that it doesn’t feel like a two hour finale at all.
On the Wellbrexa front, we start out the Finale strong. It seems as though they are going to finally nail Senior, but, of course, we know things can’t be that easy for them. They find out that Senior has been playing them all along, he’s not having memory issues, and he’s strategically placed things so that Matty & Co. seem like they’re onto something, when he’s really two steps ahead of them constantly and it’s all been a setup. This furthers Matty’s thoughts and worries about her future and what that could look like. She still wants justice, but now, it doesn’t seem like it’s end all be all for it to look one particular way.
Matty and Olympia share some beautiful moments together, discussing the future and how if this exposé blows up Jacobson Moore, they’ll start their own firm and Matty can go back to being Madeline and it’ll all be okay. At the end of the day, we’re at a point in the show where I don’t think either of them can exist without the other. Matty needs Olympia & Olympia needs Matty.
Finally, after all of the hurdles they come up with a plan. They send Julian in with a wire to discuss the Wellbrexa cover up with his father. Of course, Senior being the sneaky man he is, he knows what’s going on and smashes Julian’s microphone.
And just when things seem like they’ve all gone to hell, we get a flashback of Matty and Senior in the elevator from earlier in the episode. We find out that she placed a pen with a microphone in his jacket pocket, thus giving the FBI all of the information they need to take down Senior, The Wolf, and lots of associates at Jacobson Moore. Matty and Olympia are finally free, at least for now. They’ve taken them down and were left to wonder, what repercussions are coming their way and how we’re going to move forward now that the biggest storyline in the show has wrapped up. We also seen Ms. Belvin and Sarah show up at Matty’s house to meet with Edwin and he is seemingly going to explain Matty’s backstory and why all of the secrets and lies happened behind their backs.
Overall, an episode that covered a lot of ground for two or three of our major storylines this season. We finally got some closure on the Wellbrexa front, although I’m sure it won’t be smooth sailing when we return for Season 3. Nonetheless, I’ve enjoyed this season and I can’t wait to see where we go from here. I think there’s a lot of potential & honestly, I love the show and look forward to it every week. I would give the Season 2 Finale of Matlock a 5/5 & the Season a 4/5 rating.