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ALL RISE SEASON 2, EPISODE 1 RECAP – “A CHANGE IS GONNA COME”

By Jonathon Wilson
Published: November 17, 2020 (Last updated: February 10, 2024)
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This recap of All Rise season 2, episode 1, “A Change Is Gonna Come”, contains
spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous season by clicking
these words.



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And we’re back in the courthouse, folks. The world – both ours and that of the
show – is very different since we last saw Lola, Mark, Emily, and company, and
“A Change Is Gonna Come” is very much about getting us acquainted with those
changes.

The catalyst for a lot of these changes is Lola being arrested at a protest. We
see this event regularly and from a few different angles in flashbacks, and it’s
clear all throughout that something happened during the event which has
irrevocably altered Lola’s perspective of the American justice system, the
cultural climate, and her longstanding platonic relationship with Mark. And
there’s one other significant revelation we’re treated to regarding Lola, saved
for the end of the episode – she’s pregnant!

That happy news is for another time, though, since Lola and Robin continue to
have a long-distance marriage and pregnancy tends to take a while, so it’ll
likely be a season-long affair. Of more pressing concern are the two primary
issues affecting the American public right now – Covid-19 and racial bias within
law enforcement. That flashback reveals Lola was arrested for basically no
reason beyond being Black in America, and it’s Mark’s assumption that she did
something wrong that drives a wedge between the two of them. In the present-day,
a case that might be classified as a hate crime leads to a lot of toing and
froing between Lola and her new opinionated law clerk Ness (Marie Ware), who is
obviously younger and more aggrieved but without Lola’s earned understanding of
nuance and the legal system. Lola coaching Ness through the system helps her to
work through her own feelings, especially since her treatment at the protest has
left her more incensed than ever about how much work still needs to be done.



The Covid-19 stuff – apart from everyone wearing masks, obviously – primarily
affects Emily, in a case which sees her trying to get an imprisoned client with
underlying health issues away from possible infection. The woman she’s defending
is indeed only in jail because circumstances in the pandemic forced her to steal
basic essentials to feed her children. It’s heavy-handed, sure, but “A Change Is
Gonna Come” at least has the guts to take this storyline in a morbid direction.

The big news with Emily, though, is that she and Luke are no more, and since
they were the show’s fan-favorite couple that’s likely to have some fans in an
uproar. The exact circumstances of their break-up are left nebulous for now. It
seems platonic, and as much a part of their shifting careers – Luke is no longer
a bailiff and instead works out of the DA’s office – as the world changing
around them. The dynamic is complicated by the fact that Luke seems to have
moved on with his colleague, Sam, so it looks like a good old-fashioned love
triangle is on the cards.



With everything going on right now, and the characters in the positions they’re
in, All Rise certainly seems a less upbeat show than it was last season. It
could do serious when it needed to, certainly, but you have to wonder whether
it’ll have the same likability factor in this newer, more serious arrangement.
There are still jokes here and there, but the overall vibe is quite different –
time will tell to what extent that affects things moving forwards.

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Summary

“A Change Is Gonna Come” reintroduces All Rise as a little more serious, with
its characters in different places and the world itself a radically different
place.

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What did you think of All Rise season 2, episode 1, “A Change Is Gonna Come”?
Comment below.



ARTICLE BY JONATHON WILSON

Jonathon is one of the co-founders of Ready Steady Cut and has been an
instrumental part of the team since its inception in 2017. Jonathon has remained
involved in all aspects of the site’s operation, mainly dedicated to its content
output, remaining one of its primary Entertainment writers while also
functioning as our dedicated Commissioning Editor, publishing over 6,500
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