A wobbly second season closes with a firm sense of consequence.
It has been a wobbly second season of, as the show has scrambled to expand beyond the first while still feeling like one cohesive, 20-episode story. The finale doesn’t necessarily solve all of its problems, but in this courtroom revelation, where Eugene Jones exposes the lie that his mother and younger siblings were killed in an explosion caused by a gas leak, the series comes together beautifully.
But the true elegance of the gas leak twist is that its source is Judge Michael Desiato’s courtroom. Before tragically tumbling off his moral perch in an effort to protect his son, Michael was known for running a fair courtroom with unusual sensitivity toward how those not in power actually live. This ruffled quite a few feathers in the police department, as we learn later.
The fallout isn’t so great for the Baxter family, however. When Fia finally learns that Adam was driving the car that killed her brother and that Michael had kept that information from her, she tiptoes back into fold, however briefly. Learning in open court that her family blew up the Jones house loosens her grip on the “gas leak” narrative they’d been selling her all that time.
The drama surrounding the turf war between the Baxters and Desire is also underserved in the finale, as it has been most of the season. Calling greater attention to these two criminal elements in New Orleans has felt like a way of padding out the show, drifting away from the moral and civic corruption at the center of it.
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