The second season of this colorful Irish legal drama starring Amy Huberman as Tara Rafferty—a young solicitor who left a powerful Dublin law firm and her cheating fiancé Eric (Rory Keenan) to strike out on her own—opens with Tara kicked out of her office, her street smart assistant Ray (Emmet Byrne) in jail, and her go-to private detective Meg (Fiona O'Shaughnessy) betraying her to her former boss, Richard Dunbar (Paul Antony-Barber), who happens to be Eric's father. Tara finds new space with George Cusack (Maria Doyle Kennedy), a veteran independent solicitor who reluctantly rents to Tara's chaotic practice but finds Tara's private life and legal cases getting tangled up with her own. Tara takes on cases involving child custody, a messy divorce, and a nun suing her former convent for breach of contract, while her mentor Vincent (Neil Morrissey) works on a high-level corruption case. The second season continues to pit Tara against her old firm in individual cases, while she uncovers evidence of sinister schemes and cover-ups that lead directly back to Dunbar. The uneasy alliances, shady deals, and Tara's own tricky balance between seeking justice and crossing legal lines gives this light drama a bit of grit but it’s the characters who make the show. Compiling all six episodes from the 2018 second season, extras include a behind-the-scenes featurette, a panel discussion from a Television Critics Association event, and a photo gallery. Recommended. (S. Axmaker)
Striking Out: Series 2
RLJ, 2 discs, 327 min., not rated, DVD: $39.99 Volume 33, Issue 5
Striking Out: Series 2
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