{"id":2304560,"date":"2026-02-28T05:17:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2304560"},"modified":"2026-02-28T05:17:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:17:04","slug":"jason-ritter-unpacks-matlock-season-2-and-trying-to-get-yellowjackets-secrets-from-melanie-lynskey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jason-ritter-unpacks-matlock-season-2-and-trying-to-get-yellowjackets-secrets-from-melanie-lynskey\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Ritter Unpacks \u2018Matlock\u2019 Season 2\u00a0(and Trying to Get \u2018Yellowjackets\u2019 Secrets from Melanie Lynskey)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Editor\u2019s Note: The following includes spoilers for \u201cMatlock<\/a>\u201d Season 2, Episode 9, \u201cCollateral.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last night\u2019s episode of \u201cMatlock<\/a>\u201d finally pointed the finger at Jason Ritter\u2019s increasingly compromised corporate lawyer. In Season 2, Episode 9, \u201cCollateral,\u201d Julian Markston (Ritter<\/a>) was let in on the explosive true identity of his colleague. Not the formidable Matty Matlock, but the shrewd Madeline Kingston<\/a> (Kathy Bates<\/a>) \u2014 i.e., the mother of a girl lost to the opioid epidemic, Julian and his father, Senior (Beau Bridges<\/a>), helped clients cover up. Julian also learns his ex-wife Olympia Lawrence (Skye P. Marshall<\/a>) has been working with Madeline<\/a> to investigate his role in their law firm\u2019s misdeeds all season.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe obliviousness and the not knowing comes naturally to me,\u201d Ritter joked with IndieWire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In an episode post-mortem, the actor joined via Zoom in costume. Julian\u2019s professional attire clashed with the actor, who warmly described himself as \u201cgullible,\u201d and…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s Note: The following includes spoilers for \u201cMatlock\u201d Season 2, Episode 9, \u201cCollateral.\u201d Last night\u2019s episode of \u201cMatlock\u201d finally pointed the finger at Jason Ritter\u2019s increasingly compromised corporate lawyer. In Season 2, Episode 9, \u201cCollateral,\u201d Julian Markston (Ritter) was let in on the explosive true identity of his colleague. Not the formidable Matty Matlock, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2304561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2304560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Jason-Ritter-Unpacks-\u2018Matlock-Season-2-and-Trying-to-Get-\u2018Yellowjackets.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2304560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304562,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304560\/revisions\/2304562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2304561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2304560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2304560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2304560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}