Most important for Haller, Louis Roulet loudly proclaims his innocence, and his family has the dough to pay top-dollar for representation. Scraping by by defending lowlifes, some of whom offer their chauffeur services to work off Haller’s fees, he stumbles across a dream client: a rich boy accused of viciously beating a woman. Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.Fresh from returning Harry Bosch to the LAPD with The Closers (2005), veteran crime novelist Connelly offers intrigue and bracing twists in his first legal thriller.Ĭriminal defense attorney Mickey Haller is known as a “Lincoln lawyer” because he does business while being driven from courthouse to courthouse in his Town Car. Subscribe to my free weekly content round-up newsletter, God Rolls.

If the concept is enough to intrigue you at baseline, you’ll probably appreciate the series by the end.įollow me on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. I don’t think The Lincoln Lawyer will be as much of a breakthrough as say, Reacher recently was for Amazon, a somewhat similarly styled book adaptation, but it’s good enough, and probably will end up being watched enough to get another season, especially with six books worth of source material to draw on for the long term. This is definitely not a situation where something is widely watched on Netflix for no good reason (cough, Anatomy of a Scandal), it’s actually a decent series and a worthwhile distraction for a weekend.

It seems like it’s casting a wide net among demographics, which I suppose may be one of the reasons it’s sitting on top of the list. Almost no violence or sex at all, but a few scattered f-bombs making it technically MA-rated.

In the grand scheme of murder mysteries on streaming services, it’s quite…tame.

The target audience here is a little unclear. Hopefully this has more to do with the quality of the actor than some Netflix-demanded algorithm that they wanted a Latino-led show, but regardless, he does a great job here. Manuel Garcia-Rulfo deserves as special mention here for his understated portrayal of Haller, one rooted in Mexican heritage and who speaks with an accent, something Garcia-Rulfo has said in interviews was a “risk” they took with him.

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