Previewing Your Honor Season Two

 

Many Limited Series that get renewed are accused of doing so for category fraud reasons though you really cannot lob that accusation at Your Honor because it managed to rack up zero Emmy nominations.  While critics and award shows did not warm up to the show, Showtime did tout that it “ranks as the top debut season ever” for them.  Not Dexter, not Homeland which won Outstanding Drama Series its debut season, not Yellowjackets that had a lot of buzz last yet, but Your Honor.  But according to star Bryan Cranston, this season is definitely the last.

 

For those that need a refresher on season one: Judge's son kills gangster's son accidentally, judge gets black guy to steal the car in hit and run but gets caught, gangster thinks black guy did it, gangster's other son kills black guy in prison and gangster blew up his house, black guy’s little brother was not in the house, tried to kill gangster's other son but hit judge's son.  That little brother has been promoted to the main cast this season along with the two living Baxter children, as well as Big and Little Mo. 

 

The second season opens up with the judge in prison looking like Ted Kaczynski.  It has been a year since the events of last season and the judge is being force fed because as the guards tell him, “We’re not gonna let you die here.”  There is about five minutes of this before we get some flashback on how we got here and why the judge is there.  Things start to pick up when Rosie Perez arrives as a Assistant US Attorney who gets things set in motion of where this season is going forward.

 

For critics, and any viewers out there, that were not that into the first season, not much has changed this time around.  All the characters are still inherently stupid for the sake of pushing the plot forward.  Then giving more screen time to the kid who killed the judge’s son seems like an unnecessary detour.  Also unnecessary was the plot twist at the end of the premiere that is really forced just to add tension to the second season.  While the first season might have been the top debut season, I do wonder how many will turn into season two.  It may be best that Cranston already announced that it is ending.  Hopefully they do not reverse course again.

 

Your Honor airs Sundays at 9:00 on Showtime, but episodes will be available to stream and view On Demand for subscribers the preceding Friday.