Mickey employs his second ex-wife and legal assistant Lorna (Becki Newton), investigator Cisco (Angus Sampson) and driver Izzy (Jazz Raycole) to help him scrounge up clients as he scrambles to get his legal mojo back. More: Had enough streaming? Netflix and CNN woes show viewers may be reaching their limits He's forced back into practicing when another defense attorney is murdered and wills Mickey his entire practice, including the murder trial of a tech CEO (Christopher Gorham) that might just be the biggest case of Mickey's career. Mickey has been out of the law game for a year after a near-fatal surfing accident that left him with an opioid addiction. Previously brought to the screen in a 2011 film starring Matthew McConaughey, "Lincoln" follows Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), a defense attorney known for eschewing an office in favor of the back seat of a chauffeured Lincoln (a town car in the original books, but now updated to a swanky SUV). Its appeal comes from being something familiar done very well, and it's the kind of series Netflix should be making all the time. Kelley and Ted Humphrey. There's a comfort to the series, which exists in a universe with well-defined morals and beautiful people. It's a slickly-acted, fast-moving, winning series that isn't overly ambitious and doesn't need to be. The meat-and-potatoes legal drama, long a stalwart of broadcast television with series like "Law & Order," "The Practice" and "How to Get Away with Murder," has come to Netflix with "The Lincoln Lawyer" (streaming now, ★★★ out of four), a new adaptation of Michael Connelly's books created by David E. But sometimes you just want to sit back, relax, and see a good lawyer destroy his opposition in a swanky Los Angeles court.
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