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    Review: ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ a legal drama that’s an antidote to the Dick Wolf-ification of the TV landscape

    by Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune May 16, 2022 5 minutes
    "The Lincoln Lawyer" is now streaming on Netflix, featuring Angus Sampson, left, as Cisco, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Mickey Haller..

    It’s good to be Michael Connelly at the moment. The author’s Harry Bosch novels have been adapted into a very successful TV series, ongoing with “Bosch: Legacy,” which recently premiered on Amazon’s free streaming platform Freevee. And now his books about Mickey Haller, aka the Lincoln lawyer — a nickname derived from the character’s predilection for working out of his car; yep, a Lincoln — is getting the television treatment as well, this one for Netflix.

    If Bosch is a noir bathed in the unrelenting Los Angeles sun, “The Lincoln Lawyer” is a different sort of LA story, one that’s snappier in approach and tone. There’s banter. And plucky music. But also plenty of solidly plotted storytelling and a character who takes his work seriously. Mickey may be sorting through some personal issues at the show’s outset — he’s been out of commission for a year or so after an accident left him

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