The standout quality of The Lincoln Lawyer’s Mickey Haller is breezy, exasperating confidence in the face of really bad odds.
The Netflix show mostly sticks to the second book in Michael Connelly’s bestselling series and adopts the familiar shape of a TV legal procedural.
The Netflix series doesn’t just resurrect that aspect of the character but centres it.
Developed by The Good Wife producer Ted Humphrey and titan of legal TV David E Kelley (Ally McBeal, The Practice, Boston Legal), the series is more than a straightforward rehashing of the movie.