Lincoln Lawyer--Season 3

Lincoln Lawyer: Season 3 • Official Trailer • Netflix • (YouTube)

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Netflix + • 10 episodes • TV MA • 2 min read

Season 3 is as smooth as the finish on a Montblanc pen as Micky Haller attempts to solve the murder of call girl Gloria Dayton and exonerate her pimp Julian La Cosse. Although it took me two seasons to accept him--because of the excellent performance by his predecessor Matthew McConaughey--the scruffy-faced Manuel Garcia-Rulfo now is Mickey Haller, the Lincoln Lawyer. Realistically, he is no McConaughey, or Billy Bob Thornton (Billy McBride) or Matthew Rhys (Perry Mason)--all superior actors that played lawyers--but he is the glue that holds the recurring cast together.

Becki Newton--prettier than ever--is very good as Mickey's second ex-wife and law school graduate, Lorna Crane. Angus Simpson has been groomed since last season and is good as Dennis "Cisco" Wojciechowski, Mickey's friend and investigator and Lorna's fiancé. Jazz Raycole Dillingham is good as Izzy Letts, Mickey's former driver now a dance instructor at her leased studio. Neve Campbell, in limited screen time, is very good as Maggie McPherson, Mickey's first ex-wife. Elliot Gould is smooth as silk as David "Legal"Siegel, Mickey's mentor and friend of his father. Show newbie, Holt McCallany, does a great job of playing a bad guy who dramatically atones for his sins, playing Neil Bishop, a former detective turned DA investigator.

Season 3 deviates considerably from Michael Connelly's book,The Gods of Guilt, on which the series was based. Notably, a drunk driving accident killing two people by a client that Mickey previously exonerated and Mickey's fall back into alcohol addiction are missing.

I recommend season 3 of the Lincoln Lawyer. Do you need to see Seasons 1 and 2 to get up to speed? Not if you watch the recap. Although it could use more suspense and courtroom tactics, its character interactions and superb production values make it entertaining. If it had followed the book closer it would have been more compelling. Oh...I wish Neve Campbell would have had more scenes.