escaped the post-Hollywood strikes cancellation that impacted several other freshmen shows. Now in its second season, hotshot L.A.
defense attorney Jax Stewart (Emayatzy Corinealdi) has lost a bit of her fire from last season. After being kidnapped and nearly killed by Damon (Michael Ealy), a man she was convinced got incarcerated because she failed him as an attorney, Jax is understandably traumatized when the second season of the legal drama opens. She and husband Lewis (McKinley Freeman) are hooking up and in couples therapy, but aren’t officially back together.
Their problem, however, has never been in the sheets. Instead, their main clash is over her work/wife balance, especially when it comes to their kids. Making things more tense, Shanelle (Shannon Kane), her best friend since childhood, fights back after enduring years of domestic abuse at the hands of her star NFL husband and needs an attorney, a great one, to keep her out of prison.
But Jax can’t represent her and keep her promise to Lewis to prioritize him and their family. When she taps Corey Cash (Morris Chestnut) as Shanelle’s lead attorney, tensions escalate more, not less, for Jax, especially as long-held secrets become exposed. The case goes left, and another potential entanglement once again threatens her marriage.
“What I wanted to do differently, or I should say, kind of expand upon, is, obviously, we saw Jax go through a lot of trauma at the end of season one and I really didn’t want to just sh.