Joseph Sikora, Kyle Bary and Emayatzy Corinealdi in 'Reasonable Doubt.' Disney/Parrish Lewis Share on Facebook Share on X Share to Flipboard Send an Email Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text [This article contains mild spoilers from season three of Reasonable Doubt.] Three seasons into Reasonable Doubt, creator Raamla Mohamed has the same focus for the Hulu legal drama as she did ahead of its series premiere on Sept. 27, 2022. "I want to create shows that I'm a fan of, and that I never stop being a fan when I'm thinking of stories or we're talking about it in the writers room," Mohamed tells The Hollywood Reporter. "I'm trying to be entertained. Life is hard. My hours are precious, so I want my hour to feel good." Related Stories TV How 'The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox' Will Reclaim Knox's Narrative in Final Two Episodes Movies Music Promoters Saw No Profit in Women-Only Concert Tours. Sarah McLachlan's Lilith Fair Tested Their Theory: TIFF To that end, in this week's season three premiere, Reasonable Doubt got back to its season one roots with the dual focus of show lead Jax Stewart (Emayatzy Corinealdi) staring down a high-profile case while managing family issues at home after a second season in which the personal and professional became intertwined. As a refresher, Jax found herself representing her close friend Shanelle Tucker [Shannon Kane] who was on trial for the murder of her abusive husband. This time around, it's a former child star named Ozzie (Kyle Bary) whose secrets Jax has to unravel while attempting to squash the lawsuit Toni (Tristan Cunningham) brought against her and her husband Lewis (McKinley Freeman) following the death of their son, born out of the previous affair they had in season one. All the while, Jax is also managing microaggressions at her firm, and a potential new partner behind the bench, Bill Sterling, played by Power star Joseph Sikora. Below, Mohamed talks with THR about shaping Reasonable Doubt's third season, bringing in guest stars Lori Harvey and Love Island's Kordell Beckham, and how long she sees the show continuing. *** Season three starts with Jax finding someone we don't know in some state we can only tell isn't good, and then the episode flashes back to six months prior. Why did you format the premiere that way? What I liked about season one is that there were two mysteries going. You had: Who kidnapped Jax? And also, who killed Kaleesha [Perri Camper]? I wanted to go back to that format for season three. Season two was very personal for Jax. It was about her defending her best friend - it was about their relationship, and we knew their relationship was very complicated. But now we've seen Jax go through this healing, this therapy with Lewis - now let's bring back that case where there are multiple people and, you don't know. Like with Brayden [Sean Patrick Thomas in season one], is the client lying? The client this time is another high-profile Black man in an interracial relationship with his stylist, who turns up dead and whom his family disapproves of. That's kind of all audiences know so far in episode one. What issues are you going to explore there? The Ozzie character is so complicated. One issue is the idea of entitlement. When he goes, in episode one, and talks to the police, it's like he's talking to a friend. There's no acknowledgement that he could be in trouble or that people could think ill things about him. But the other thing is we start to dig deep into addiction and abuse, and you start to really unravel how Ozzie got to the place that he is, his family relationship, how his parents treated him. And really it becomes kind of a maternal relationship between him and J. They say that the age you become famous is the age you stay, essentially, mentally and emotionally, and I think a lot of that is true for Ozzie. There's an arrested development there that happens that is not only explained by his fame, but also some of the trauma that he's experienced, some of which mirrors the trauma that Jax has experienced too. With the season two finale, I assumed the lawsuit Toni brings against Lewis and Jax would be the big case at the center of the season, did you consider that? I always found that it was going to be a personal story. First of all, it didn't feel big enough to be a main story. I always try to check myself as an audience member, in terms of what I like. So, if it were me, I'd be like, "I hope they're not trying to make Toni the case." It's funny, I saw some people comment like that and I was like, "Don't worry, it's not; it's going to be fine." So if you watch, you see Toni's anger and how she attached herself and kind of thought her and Lewis were going to become this unit. I think there was a little bit of hope for something later. So when Lewis then stepped away, she felt like she lost two things and we explore that i