Before Finale, So Help Me Todd Needs to Make It Up to an Underrated Character

Summary:

• So Help Me Todd had its first season released back in 2022 with the second and the last one following this February
• While the finale isn’t here yet, the show may still have a chance to right a big wrong about one particular character.
• The series follows a talented, yet messy private investigator who, after getting into big trouble, is hired by his mother for work at her law firm.

So Help Me Todd features a character whose life gets perturbed after Todd’s appearance in the firm.

A legal comedy drama series, So Help Me Todd has kept fans entertained over the course of two seasons until the show got canceled just around a week ago.

With the unexpected news coming in, the series’ finale is now probably the most intriguing thing of all — and it needs to resolve at least one problem with a character whose storyline deserves to be better than that.

So Help Me Todd follows a guy from the title Todd Wright whose brilliant skills of a private investigator are often faded by his binge lifestyle that eventually results in Todd’s license taken away from him.

Luckily for him, Todd’s mother got it all sorted out — being a defense attorney at one of the top law firms, she manages to bring negotiations about her son’s criminal charges to the latter’s happy ending and free life and then offers him a job at her company which Todd reluctantly accepts.

Throughout his basic workday, Todd gets to interact with all kinds of characters of various tasks and personalities, but one character in particular brings in much more tension while sharing a scene with Todd — Susan Yang, the main character’s ex-girlfriend from his college times, also works as an attorney at his mother’s company.

Unlike Todd, she seems to be in a much better position in life than her luckless ex — Susan is engaged to mature and conscious Peter and everything works out pretty well for her until Todd comes in her way.

After several awkward encounters with Todd in the place where she has no possibility to avoid meeting him, Susan gets to realize that she still feels something for her ex-boyfriend, but she has no intention to call it all off with Peter either.

Susan’s conversations with Todd are clearly filled with a romance-coded vibe deluding the viewers into cheering for a couple that has a chance to get back together — but it’s just one huge mistake that even Susan isn’t entirely aware of.

Despite the show’s constant attempts to throw Todd and Susan together, the plot makes it clear that Peter is a much better match for Susan whose decision to start dating Todd in college was a definitely bad idea even back then.

Though Susan is no prude and doesn’t mind having some fun, she still sees limits to it, unlike Todd — and that’s why her healthy relationships and stable work should prevail over a momentary desire to get back to her messy ex.