The trailer for The Trial Season 2, starring Kajol and Jisshu Sengupta, has dropped ahead of its September 19 premiere on JioHotstar. Expectations were mixed after the lukewarm response to the first season, but many hoped the makers would sharpen the tone and stay truer to the source. Unfortunately, the new footage suggests the opposite.
The Trial is officially adapted from the acclaimed American legal drama The Good Wife. However, while the original balanced sharp legal strategies with personal conflicts, the Indian version continues to lean heavily into soap opera theatrics. Season 1 was already criticised for one-dimensional characters and courtroom sequences that felt exaggerated and cinematic. Season 2 looks to be doubling down on that very approach.
From the trailer, the focus is squarely on Noyonika’s turbulent personal life. She is seen confronting her husband Rajiv for a divorce, only to find him manipulating her public image for political gain. Adding to the drama is a new political rival, played by Sonali Kulkarni, who raises the stakes further. Rather than delivering tense legal battles, the story seems dominated by loud confrontations and family melodrama.
By the end of the trailer, the narrative transforms into a familiar “fierce mother” arc, with Noyonika depicted as a parent willing to go to any lengths to protect her children. While powerful on paper, this trope risks sidelining her role as a sharp lawyer and reduces the show into a family drama set in a courtroom backdrop.
What fans had hoped for was a layered, sophisticated take on law, justice, and power. What the trailer shows instead is more emotional outbursts, clunky dialogue, and heightened theatrics. In short, the trailer confirms that The Trial is not returning as a gripping legal drama but as a heightened melodrama dressed in courtroom attire.
For viewers hoping for something closer to The Good Wife, the trailer is a letdown. For those who enjoyed the heightened emotions of Season 1, this might deliver more of the same. Whether it can win back disappointed audiences remains to be seen.
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