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Critic Reviews
May 12, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Sure, there’s always a hard edge underlying these frothier elements—this is ex-L.A. Times crime reporter Michael Connelly’s Los Angeles, after all—but aesthetically, it’s those frothier bits in The Lincoln Lawyer that rise to the top. Given how dark the four central cases of the series’ first season are, this frothy aesthetic proves a nice counterbalance.
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ColliderFeb 5, 2026
Season 4 Review:
This season feels more significant by putting everything on the line for its title character, it requires everyone to step up and give it their all, and they rise to the occasion. It's also nice to hear and see some names and faces from the past to tie the previous seasons into the larger world that’s being built.
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Oct 17, 2024
Season 3 Review:
Manuel Garcia-Rulfo thrives in the courtroom scenes that pepper Lincoln Lawyer. .... Lincoln Lawyer is also at its best when its centerpiece attorney is in reaction mode to the moves being made by the people in his personal and professional lives, which increasingly overlap.
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May 11, 2022
Season 1 Review:
This is a slick, easily digested and well-acted legal thriller featuring an outstanding ensemble cast and a juicy, lurid murder mystery that keeps us guessing throughout—not that we can’t see some of the twists coming a mile down the road. That’s even part of the fun of shows such as this one.
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Nov 13, 2024
Season 3 Review:
The reversals and breakthroughs of the case are as stylized as those in any crime drama. But the relaxed approach and generally unfussy writing of “The Lincoln Lawyer” let it feel more tethered to everyday life, and closer to normal human emotion, than most shows in its category.
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May 11, 2022
Season 1 Review:
It has a sort of modesty — the cast delivers appealing, workmanlike performances that do exactly what they need to without overshadowing any other actor or element of the series. (That’s not to say that some don’t get some heated moments to play.) The twists are twisted enough to keep things interesting, if that’s what you watch for, but as with most if not all character-driven procedurals, it’s the characters that keep one coming back.
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Jul 6, 2023
Season 2 Review:
A challenge for this show is that its central character (and performance) is perfectly fine but not especially compelling or layered, so it relies mostly on the problem-solving efforts of the supporting cast (who are underserved this time out; rarely is the team even in the same room together) and how interesting the cases actually are — or aren’t.
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ColliderOct 17, 2024
Season 3 Review:
Despite fumbling several storylines, the show is still entertaining and compelling, and you hardly feel like you're wasting your time. However, a heftier exploration of other characters who are not Mickey Haller would certainly elevate the show to a must-watch status.
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The GuardianMay 13, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The Lincoln Lawyer (Netflix) will do you no harm, as certainly as it will do you no good. People say things like, “You know Michael – the only thing he likes more than a fight is a fight with one hand tied behind his back,” and they manage exchanges such as “Can you work with that?” “I can win with that,” with straight faces.
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May 11, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Kelley’s belief in the inherent intrigue of the legal process helps him along; one can sense enthusiasm undergirding, say, an episode built around the jury-selection process. But others of the creator’s tricks fail him, like a tendency to lean hard on the quirkiness of bit players studded through the story, seemingly intended as a sort of comic relief that doesn’t consistently land.
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Radio TimesMay 12, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Sure, the show just about does enough to justify its existence and separate itself from the novel and same-named film, and it's certainly a step up from the preposterous antics of Kelley's last effort. But why he was so determined to take such a relatively generic potboiler off the page is arguably The Lincoln Lawyer's most intriguing mystery.
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May 11, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Planted seeds really go nowhere by the end. Several subplots, including one with Cisco and his former bike gang, occupy real estate with zero payoffs. Garcia-Rulfo, Newton, and Campbell try their hardest, but the show isn’t worthy of their talents (or even a continuation).
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ColliderJul 6, 2023
Season 2 Review:
Season 2 keeps going in circles without much care put into how it all is constructed. Much like the first season, the pacing of many scenes and the way the dialogue is written is clunky rather than slick. Escalations and twists land with dull thuds when everything is shot so flatly, making it hard to get wrapped up in the drama of the plot.
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