Giant of a Law Drama to Return

Season two of Amazon Prime’s 4K courtroom drama, Goliath, will premiere on June 15.

Created by David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal, Boston Legal) and Jonathan Shapiro (The Practice), Goliath was the top binged first season of a US-produced Prime Original series ever over its first ten days.

It also won Billy Bob Thornton, who plays lawyer Billy McBride, a 2017 Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama Series.

New to S2’s eight episodes will be:

• Mark Duplass (Togetherness) as Tom Wyatt, a successful developer who wants to give Los Angeles a distinct skyline;
• Morris Chestnut (The Best Man) as Chief Deputy District Attorney Hakeem Rashad, who has an old grudge against Billy; and
• Ana De La Reguera (Narcos) as Marisol Silva, a city councilwoman in the race to be the first Latina mayor of Los Angeles.

Returning are Tania Raymonde and Diana Hopper as Brittany Gold and Denise McBride, respectively.

S2 was executive produced by Lawrence Trilling (Parenthood) and Geyer Kosinski (Fargo). Here’s the blurb (and the link to the trailer):

In the show’s second season, Billy McBride, after winning a huge verdict in the Borns Tech case, is reluctantly pulled back into the law when his friend’s 16-year-old son is arrested for a double homicide.

However, as Billy, Patty and the team start to investigate what appears to be an open and shut murder case, they begin to untangle a deadly conspiracy in the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles, where drugs, real estate and politics intermingle.

Once again, Billy finds himself facing a new Goliath, one that is as formidable as the city’s mayoral race and as tall as the skyline itself.