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Deborah gets leverage over Marty to finally get her special and Ava must decide whether to support her or pluck up courage to follow her own dreams.

A beautiful bittersweet ending to a fabulous season, neatly wrapping up loose ends in lawsuits, careers and relationships. Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder have again been magnificent both individually and in mutually crafting, developing and cementing the bond between these two distinctive women.

A fabulous place to leave the show going out on a high, though it certainly warrants a third outing.

Deborah's special runs into numerous difficulties, primarily finding a backer, causing her and Jimmy to rethink their strategy.

Jimmy takes an uncharacteristic risk, emerging from his customary timid and subservient self to grab the bull by the horns. Paul W. Downs is excellent, carrying the rage in a slightly slapstick, comedic manner to good effect.

Another opening scene discussing retrials and Alford pleas! The show is running in circles repeating the same material in laboriously minute detail and going nowhere.

The first half (episodes 1 - 4) is engaging, entertaining and enjoyable, but it has now gone on too long. It is like a half-baked version of Groundhog Day with a heavy non-linear, repeating loop and has become dour and dreary.

Juliette Binoche is the standout of the back half, but she is unable to rescue it from itself.

The whole thing should have been condensed to six episodes for a more compact and compelling narrative.