Good day all. This weekend the third season of Amazon’s Goliath was released. The series stars Billy Bob Thornton as a burned out lawyer who takes on seemingly unwinnable cases and then wins them.
The first two seasons were interesting to watch as Thornton’s character, Billy McBride managed to overcome all sorts of adversities to win the cases for his clients. Then we have the recently released season three.
All I can say is, What the Hell happened? Did the writers decide this was a good time to try new drugs? This season was basically an 8 hour waste of time. The plot, I think, revolved around large scale farms siphoning off all the water from the area and causing a sink hole to open and his friend’s wife falling in and getting killed.
Or it had something to do with peyote, (Which I think the writers were using in great quantities). The plot, which could have been great was nothing more then a disjointed mess. I struggled through the entire series last weekend, and I’m still not sure what the heck it was all about.
To begin with, the bad writing made this season about 4 hours to long. How many times can we watch Billy Bob Thornton and the others driving through the desert? The back story regarding the defendants, (And conspirators) as well as the plaintiffs was nonexistent. And Thornton’s character, McBride, came across as the lowest form of lawyer, the ambulance chaser.
In the end, and frankly who cares if it’s a spoiler, one of the defendants lets Thornton’s character have it with a shotgun, then drives off and gets killed in a car crash. Thornton’s character, McBride, is last seen trying to get up from a puddle. I guess they decided that the best way to end the season was to leave it at a cliffhanger that can go either way. Either the McBride character survives and we have a season 4, (With a new set of writers and director I hope), or they kill him and the series off. In my opinion, watch seasons one and two and just forget that season three even happened.
Thatisall
~The Angry Webmaster~
