- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: May 13, 2022
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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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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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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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Netflix’s new legal drama The Lincoln Lawyer is at least somewhat entertaining for a show with a bland central character, as many as three generally bland simultaneous plotlines and no notable perspective on the criminal justice system circa 2022.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 18
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Mixed: 5 out of 18
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Negative: 5 out of 18
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May 21, 2022
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