Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Let's be honest. Season 1 of Goliath wasn't a work of art. It was a legal drama that was more caricature than craft. It featured a face-melted villain sitting in a dark tower viewing his empire with hidden cameras. Yeah, it was a stretch, but it was also entertaining. It was engaging, it was funny, it was worth the bandwidth it required to stream. Season 2, on the other hand, is a total waste of effort. The writing is hilariously bad, but not hilarious enough to be entertaining. Take for example the comically-forced love-interest between Billy and Marisol Silva. Silva, a Los Angeles mayoral candidate, apparently doesn't have access to any attorneys to represent an orphaned child she cares about. So she spends her precious campaign time searching dark piers and seedy motels for the only alcoholic lawyer in LA who does not defend murder cases. And when she finds him, she's instantly ready to bang. No relationship development, no give and take, just straight to "sure I'll have a drink straight from your bum bottle and look at you longingly while the camera zooms in on my emotions". It gets so much worse. The "conspiracy" in this one might as well have been written by a middle school creative writing class. Your eyes will roll so much watching this garbage that you're going to give yourself a headache. Sure, it might get better. But I had enough mid-way through episode 3. Just far too terribly conceived and written. Which is a shame, because another season as a pure Billy Bob Thornton vehicle could have been entertaining. And a little bit more Tania Raymonde has never hurt anyone. Fact. Amazon, don't you dare allow the same thing to happen to Patriot, or we're gonna have serious words...