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Call Mickey Haller
Narrative
Do you need a lawyer? He runs his law practice in Lincoln and is ready to hit the gas. Moving around Los Angeles, he takes on cases while balancing a personal life that includes being a father and having two ex-wives..
Mickey Haller has several cars, all with custom California license plates with legal terms on them
Originally set up with CBS for a series commitment in 2020, it was canceled just before filming the first episode due to COVID. This has now been picked up by Netflix for a 10-episode first season based on Mickey Haller’s second book, The Brass Verdict. California custom plates allow a maximum of seven letters/numbers, however all of Mickey’s plates have at least eight..
Referenced in Shrine of Telly: Week 3 (2022)
Lawyer Lincoln was actually better than I expected. I never read the books it was based on, but I watched the Matthew McConaughey movie and thought it was pretty good, but not worth making into a series. I really expected it to be a low-budget rip-off.
I couldn’t have been more wrong
I actually liked it more than the movie. I wasn’t going to watch it until I saw all the great reviews and that it was one of Netflix’s most watched shows of the year. Manuel Garcia-Rulfo does a good job as the lead, and Becky Newton, Neve Campbell, Angus Sampson, among others, do a fantastic job in the supporting roles.