Goliath’s season 2 finale showed that sometime’s the good guys don’t get to win. Amazon has been killing it with great original shows, thanks to the likes of The Boys or The Man in the High Castle. Goliath joined those ranks in 2016, with the series being a mature legal drama co-created by Jonathan Shapiro and David E. Kelley. The first season introduced Billy McBride (Billy Bob Thornton, Fargo), a former high-flying lawyer who was fired from a law firm he helped establish and became an alcoholic.

Goliath season 1 revolved around Billy becoming involved in a case against his old firm and eventually emerging victorious by the end of the series. The show received great reviews for being a legal drama that injected a little freshness into the well-travelled subgenre, and for Thorton’s lead performance. Billy may have scored a hard-won victory, but the first season was still a dark ride, and season 2 would dial that up a few notches.

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Goliath season 2 would also receive a mixed reaction, with those who enjoyed the grounded tone of the original series feeling it strayed too far into some weird areas. The setup of the second season has Billy hitting the bottle pretty hard until he’s asked by his friend Oscar (Lou Diamond Philips, Young Guns) to defend his son Julio against a double murder charge. This leads Billy to mayoral candidate and Oscar’s friend Marisol Silva (Ana de la Reguera). Billy starts romancing Silva and takes the case after Oscar is murdered.

By the time Goliath’s season 2 finale comes around, things have gone pretty bad. Julio was murdered in prison, its discovered Marisol is the sister of a vicious Mexican cartel leader called Gabriel and Billy has made an enemy of creepy developer Tom Wyatt (Mark Duplass, Tully). This all comes to a bitter conclusion in season 2, with Billy getting one of Tom’s associates to flip on him; Tom responds by letting Billy know Marisol was involved in Julio’s death. The season ends pretty badly for Tom though, with the cartel kidnapping him and Gabriel amputating his arms and legs, and finally, his tongue.

Billy faces Marisol after she’s elected Mayor about her involvement with Julio’s death and her various misdeeds. He’s fallen in love with her by this point, but she tearfully breaks it off and claims she never had feelings for him. Goliath season 2 ends with Billy having essentially lost, with Gabriel and Marisol walking away, and while Tom Wyatt met a nasty fate, he was far from the only one with blood on his hands. The second season was in many ways messier than Goliath season 1, but the darkness of the season 2 finale was a bold move.

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It’s pronounced Paw-rick, not Pad-raig. Now that’s out of the way, a brief introduction. Padraig has been writing about film online since 2012, when a friend asked if he’d like to contribute the occasional review or feature to their site.

A part-time hobby soon blossomed into a career when he discovered he really loved writing about movies, TV and video games – he even (arguably) had a little bit of talent for it. He has written words for Den of Geek, Collider, The Irish Times and Screen Rant over the years, and can discuss anything from the MCU – where Hawkeye is clearly the best character – to the most obscure cult b-movie gem, and his hot takes often require heat resistant gloves to handle.

He’s super modern too, so his favorite movies include Jaws, Die Hard, The Thing, Ghostbusters and Batman. He can be found as i_Padds on Twitter making bad puns.

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