The BEST episodes of So Help Me Todd

Every episode of So Help Me Todd ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of So Help Me Todd!

As a kid, Todd wanted nothing more than to be a private detective. Now that he is, he’s quite good at it. The rest of his directionless life? That’s a bit of an unsolved mystery, especially to his uber-successful lawyer mom. So when she offers him a job as an in-house investigator at her firm as a way for him to get his act together, he reluctantly agrees, as long as Mom promises to let her adult son be who he wants to be.

Last Updated: 11/21/2024Network: CBSStatus: Ended
The Tooth Is Out There
star
7.82
146 votes

#1 - The Tooth Is Out There

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/16/2024

While Margaret tries to save her struggling law firm by taking on a case involving a large cosmetics company with deep pockets, Todd is determined to crack an important FBI investigation that will seal the fate of Crest, Folding & Wright, one way or another.

Directors: Stuart Gillard
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Dial Margaret for Murder
star
7.80
164 votes

#2 - Dial Margaret for Murder

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/14/2024

While in the hospital recovering from an emergency appendectomy, Todd is convinced he overheard a plot to murder someone. When Margaret realizes her clients are interested in Todd's theories, she jumps into the role of private investigator.

Directors: Robin Givens
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Long Lost Lawrence
star
7.79
228 votes

#3 - Long Lost Lawrence

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/2022

When Margaret is disappointed that no one but Todd can attend her family Thanksgiving dinner, Todd tries to convince his brother, Lawrence, to come home. Also, Margaret’s family inadvertently helps her crack a case involving an injured bank teller and robbery.

Directors: Daniella Eisman
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Faux-Bituary
star
7.76
150 votes

#4 - Faux-Bituary

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/25/2024

Margaret and Todd team up to help a man who has been declared legally dead, even though he is very much alive.

Directors: Jay Karas
Writer: Lisa Parsons
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Are You There Todd? It's Me, Margaret
star
7.75
171 votes

#5 - Are You There Todd? It's Me, Margaret

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/18/2023

When Margaret is too sick to work on the final day of an important negotiation, Todd must step in and impersonate a lawyer while Margaret uses her investigative skills. Also, Margaret and Gus finally share their first kiss.

Directors: Nancy Hower
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P.I.'s Wide Shut
star
7.70
155 votes

#6 - P.I.'s Wide Shut

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/2/2024

While Margaret helps Susan serve justice for a tennis coach accused of drugging a teen athlete, Todd and Lyle embark on an epic office prank war.

Directors: Ruba Nadda
Writer: Earl Davis
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Your Day in Court
star
7.69
164 votes

#7 - Your Day in Court

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/22/2024

As Margaret and Todd work on two separate cases, Todd suspects a crime is happening in the courthouse right under their noses.

Directors: Nick Gomez
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The First Date is the Deepest
star
7.67
181 votes

#8 - The First Date is the Deepest

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/13/2023

Margaret helps a client who lost his mother during a routine surgery at Allison’s hospital, performed by her colleague Dr. Ross Woods. Also, Margaret and Gus go on their first date and Todd is asked by the firm to investigate Gus.

Directors: Daniel Willis
Writer: Earl Davis
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The Devil You Know
star
7.64
195 votes

#9 - The Devil You Know

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/5/2023

When Margaret finds herself on the verge of losing a prominent case involving the murder of an investigative journalist, Todd seeks help from an unlikely source: his imprisoned ex-girlfriend, Veronica.

Directors: Kabir Akhtar
Writer: Lisa Parsons
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Psilo-Sibling
star
7.63
191 votes

#10 - Psilo-Sibling

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/2/2023

Lawrence and the governor seek Margaret’s help with a personal legal matter related to the governor’s sister, and while Margaret is ecstatic to be of assistance, Lawrence refuses to let Todd anywhere near the case.

Directors: Ali LeRoi
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Wall of Fire
star
7.61
192 votes

#11 - Wall of Fire

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/9/2023

When Todd agrees to help Susan’s fiancé locate a missing employee, he stumbles into a case Margaret agreed to co-counsel with Gus. Margaret and Todd realize their cases are converging and a firewall is put into place to prevent them from communicating with each other.

Directors: Wendey Stanzler
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Gloom and Boom
star
7.61
186 votes

#12 - Gloom and Boom

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/27/2023

When a stranger with a bomb appears at the law firm demanding Margaret reverse her efforts to free her client on death row or the bomb will detonate, Margaret and Todd must rely on their legal and detective skills to untangle the crime, uncover the intentions of the bomber and save everyone at the firm.

Directors: Nick Gomez
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Corduroy Briefs
star
7.60
253 votes

#13 - Corduroy Briefs

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/2022

Margaret and Todd work to bring justice to an Olympic athlete who lost his leg in a plane crash resulting from a defective aircraft.

Directors: Nancy Hower
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The Broker
star
7.58
137 votes

#14 - The Broker

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/9/2024

While Margaret makes every employee at Crest, Folding & Wright work over the weekend on Gus’ fairness hearing for a class action settlement, Todd begins investigating a secret case with the FBI where everyone at the firm is a potential suspect.

Directors: Nancy Hower
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Against All Todds
star
7.57
180 votes

#15 - Against All Todds

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/2/2023

When Veronica appears at the law firm requesting a favor from Todd, he agrees to help but soon realizes she may be out for revenge. Also, Margaret is upset when she is taken off a high-stakes case.

Directors: Brad Silberling
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End on a High Note
star
7.57
147 votes

#16 - End on a High Note

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/11/2024

Margaret and Todd defend international opera star, supreme diva and Lyle’s mother, Jaqueline.

Directors: Marcus Stokes
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So Help Me Pod
star
7.56
239 votes

#17 - So Help Me Pod

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/2022

Margaret and Francey enlist the help of a popular true crime podcaster, Lea Luna, to help exonerate a client who is serving a life sentence. Also, Todd solicits dating advice from his sister and Susan when sparks fly between him and Lea.

Directors: Randy Zisk
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Side Effects May Include Murder
star
7.55
182 votes

#18 - Side Effects May Include Murder

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/12/2023

When Margaret’s client faces an attempted murder charge, she mounts a creative defense to prove her client’s innocence, and Todd takes an experimental drug to find evidence. Also, Allison finds herself in trouble and reaches out to Todd for help.

Directors: Daniel Willis
Writer: Andy Berman
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86’d
star
7.54
186 votes

#19 - 86’d

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/4/2023

Margaret represents Lauren, Susan’s good friend, in a hostile work environment lawsuit after she quits her job at a Michelin-starred restaurant, but it unexpectedly turns into a murder trial when the head chef is found dead. Also, when Todd gets sick, Margaret must go undercover as a dishwasher in a fancy restaurant while Todd acts as a restaurant critic to gather more intel on the possible suspect.

Directors: Larry Teng
Writer: Lisa Parsons
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Iceland Was Horrible
star
7.54
159 votes

#20 - Iceland Was Horrible

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/15/2024

Margaret and Todd tackle a case involving a murder on live local morning news and must rethink their working relationship after Todd decides to open his own PI business.

Directors: Nancy Hower
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Ivan the Terrible
star
7.54
180 votes

#21 - Ivan the Terrible

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/9/2023

Margaret represents a gifted 17-year-old hacker charged with releasing classified defense documents and faces off against her college nemesis. Also, Todd is tasked with babysitting the teen hacker for the duration of the trial.

Directors: Jay Karas
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Twelve Worried Persons
star
7.52
193 votes

#22 - Twelve Worried Persons

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/30/2023

When a juror dies during Susan’s first big trial as lead attorney, Margaret and Todd work to exonerate Amy, a juror from the same trial suspected of the murder. Also, Margaret’s sister Patty is in town and sparks fly between Todd and Amy.

Directors: Ali LeRoi
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Swipe Wright
star
7.51
180 votes

#23 - Swipe Wright

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/15/2022

Margaret asks Todd for help on a seemingly straight forward wrongful termination case over a dating app, but with Todd’s investigation they quickly realize it’s much more complicated. Also, tensions between Margaret and Gus simmer as they come across each other on a dating app.

Directors: Michael Spiller
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Second Second Chance
star
7.51
260 votes

#24 - Second Second Chance

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/2022

When Todd reunites with a childhood friend with a checkered past, he convinces Margaret to represent him in a minor legal case.

Writer: Lisa Parsons
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The Queen of Courts
star
7.51
168 votes

#25 - The Queen of Courts

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/29/2024

Margaret and Todd defend the "Queen of Hearts," a notoriously unscrupulous lawyer accused of orchestrating a fraudulent accident that resulted in the death of a "fake victim."

Directors: Daniel Willis
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