Walker

SEASON PREMIERE Thursday, Oct. 28, 8/7c, The CW

- Damian Holbrook

JARED PADALECKI IS back in the saddle as Texas Ranger Cordell Walker, who’s staring down more personal and professional drama in Season 2. On the home front, a long-running rivalry reignites between the Walkers and former Austin ranching clan the Davidsons, led by matriarch Gale (Euphoria’s Paula Marshall), daughter Denise (Amara Zaragoza) and son-in-law Dan (Dave Annable, real-life hubby of Odette Annable, who plays bar owner Geri). The dynastic beef has been brewing since “like, the 1870s, a Hatfields and-McCoys type of thing,” explains showrunner Anna Fricke, adding that much of the season’s tensions will b