Goliath season 1 revolved around Billy becoming involved in a case against his old firm and eventually emerging victorious by the end of the series. The show received great reviews for being a legal drama that injected a little freshness into the well-travelled subgenre, and for Thorton’s lead performance. Billy may have scored a hard-won victory, but the first season was still a dark ride, and season 2 would dial that up a few notches.
Goliath season 2 would also receive a mixed reaction, with those who enjoyed the grounded tone of the original series feeling it strayed too far into some weird areas. The setup of the second season has Billy hitting the bottle pretty hard until he’s asked by his friend Oscar (Lou Diamond Philips, Young Guns) to defend his son Julio against a double murder charge. This leads Billy to mayoral candidate and Oscar’s friend Marisol Silva (Ana de la Reguera). Billy starts romancing Silva and takes the case after Oscar is murdered.
By the time Goliath’s season 2 finale comes around, things have gone pretty bad. Julio was murdered in prison, its discovered Marisol is the sister of a vicious Mexican cartel leader called Gabriel and Billy has made an enemy of creepy developer Tom Wyatt (Mark Duplass, Tully). This all comes to a bitter conclusion in season 2, with Billy getting one of Tom’s associates to flip on him; Tom responds by letting Billy know Marisol was involved in Julio’s death. The season ends pretty badly for Tom though, with the cartel kidnapping him and Gabriel amputating his arms and legs, and finally, his tongue.
Billy faces Marisol after she’s elected Mayor about her involvement with Julio’s death and her various misdeeds. He’s fallen in love with her by this point, but she tearfully breaks it off and claims she never had feelings for him. Goliath season 2 ends with Billy having essentially lost, with Gabriel and Marisol walking away, and while Tom Wyatt met a nasty fate, he was far from the only one with blood on his hands. The second season was in many ways messier than Goliath season 1, but the darkness of the season 2 finale was a bold move.
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