Your Honor finale: is there a second season?
Warning: Don't read until you have watched Your Honor finale Episode 10.
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Warning: Don’t read until you have watched Your Honor finale Episode 10.
If you’ve seen that Shakespearean ending to Your Honor, you probably have a few questions…. including is there a second season?
A lot seemed to happen, but as writer Peter Moffat tells Variety, “Originally the ending was going to be that Jimmy Baxter takes possession of Adam — that he owns him — and that’s the kind-of killing of Adam. While his father looks on, he loses Adam to his nemesis.”
Instead, in the months Moffat had to sit with later scripts after production was paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he realised he wanted to bring Eugene (Benjamin Flores Jr.), the young man who lost his family because Jimmy Baxter (Michael Stuhlbarg) was led to believe it was one of them who killed his son, more centrally into the finale.
“He just really matters to me, that kid. I think Benjamin is a seriously good actor, especially the way he does very little but tells us so much — that’s very unusual in somebody that age, particularly,” Moffat says of Flores.
Deadline also asked Moffat if had any plans for a second season?
Moffat: No thought at all for laying track for another season of this show. If there are loose ends…I’m never unhappy about loose ends, provided, as you say, that the main stuff is satisfied and the main architecture has been built, constructed, and loved. I don’t mind loose ends, but there’s no planning which says let’s leave that open, or let’s leave that open. That was never an intention in the writing of this.
Deadline: The Israeli show had a second season. Is there a desire for you to keep exploring these characters and this storyline in subsequent episodes? Your judge remains in the pocket of the devil. Does that intrigue you?
Moffat: The honest answer to that is, what kind of writer would you be if you wrote and spent two and a half years working on something, written 10 hours of television, and hadn’t given another thought to what would happen if there were an episode 11 and beyond? You’d be a strange human being if you could just drop everybody at the end of 10 hours. So, of course I’ve thought about it, and of course, I have several hundred good ideas, but that’s a description of where I’m at in my head.
Deadline: So nothing solid about continuing?
Moffat: No.
There’s more from Moffat you can read here.
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Wow, that was a better final scene to a series than Ozark S3. Nobody saw that coming…
I watched the finale last night. But I don’t need a second season. The story wove itself into a circle and it would be a shame to try and continue. I’m not sure I want to see the next chapter.
There were a couple of strange loose ends that seemed like missed opportunities and my circular ending might have been a little different. When the finale unfolded it seemed too predictable.
Troy Story is right-there were some dumb characters in it. But I enjoyed it and it kept me watching to see what would happen.
What a mess this turned out to be.
It had the most frustratingly dumb character I’ve seen in quite a while on a TV series in which we were supposed to care about and his relationship with Cranston was meant to be the big ticket of the show… both fell really flat. So the pay off was lost on me in a big way. And things just conveniently happened… like, all the time… ugh…
Incoherent storytelling with random plot points brought up to either not be talked about again or having no point whatsoever. The show felt rushed and in the end unfinished after trying to fit a tonne of stuff in the last episode or two.
No excuse for poor storytelling. Not even Cranston could save the weak story. I haven’t seen a show squander so much potential since GoT (albeit that show did it in what I suspect will be a uniquely spectacularly one of a kind fashion).
Oh well, I’ll watch BrBa again 😃