The first season of Truth Be Told ended up pleasantly surprising me with how mysterious it was, so I was relatively excited to catch the new season. They took it in the direction of an anthology, with a new mystery that Poppy gets herself entangled with this season.
While last season saw an intense story involving the Cave family, this season focuses on a long friendship between Poppy and now worldwide influencer, Micah Keith. Poppy and Micah grew up together and helped each other survive, with each woman finding immense success as adults. Micah published a book about her time living on the streets and all other sorts of hardships that come along with that. After leaving an exhibit honoring the book an the work she now does at a facility called Shelter, the group head back to her husband’s loft to find him dead.
From there, Micah asks for Poppy’s help, and thus, Poppy has her next podcast topic! There was another guy found dead with Micah’s husband, Josh, so the question is were they lovers? Nope. Answered pretty quickly that it was his son that Micah never knew about. While I thought that would have been an interesting take, the twists and turns this season takes really took me on a journey. They find their next suspect in Micha’s assistant, but that theory is put to rest when a Shelter employee, Holt, kills him. From there, Poppy learns that Holt and Micah are lovers and that they lived together on the streets. Well, I’d agree with Poppy in that it makes Micah look pretty dang guilty.
In the end, some gang is fairly involved, too, but the reveal kind of reminded me a little of Legally Blonde. You’ll have to watch to see what I mean. I suppose when that reveal happened it made sense, and it was perfectly satisfying. What really beefed things up this season, just like last season, was the personal lives of these people. It turns out Micah’s book was made up of stories that belonged to the life of another friend, Rose. Yikes! Before all that gets revealed though, Poppy must also come forward about the abuse she suffered at the hands of Miss Shirley, who watched Poppy while her father was in prison. This eats away at her father, but it gets turned up to eleven when Poppy questions whether or not he’s her real father. She thinks she gets an answer, but at the end we find out he’s not, and burns the evidence to prove otherwise. Poor Poppy also gets served divorce papers, too!
All in all, it was another compelling story. Kate Hudson was actually pretty dang good as Micah, and as always, Octavia Spencer is magnetic in this role, just like all her others. I know this show already got picked up for another season, so I’ll be interested to see if any new characters carry over and what kind of mystery Poppy will get wrapped up in next. Great thriller if you’ve got the time!