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Bryan Cranston plumbs the depths in 'Your Honor,' then slowly begins the climb back

Bryan Cranston attends the "Asteroid City" photocall at the 76th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 24, 2023, in Cannes, France.

"Your Honor" could have been complete after Season 1's horrific full-circle finale, in which the "honorable" protagonist's entire impetus for his long journey into hell — protecting his son — leads to the young man accidentally being killed. Ending there, the show would have been about karmic retribution. Instead, the second season transformed into a story of (some measure of) redemption. Even rebirth.

"If the first season was more 'King Lear,' then this season is more 'Hamlet,' where he truly doesn't want to live, in the beginning," says star and

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