Legal dramas never go out of style. There’s something engaging about a courtroom drama, the fancy lives of hotshot lawyers, and the cat-and-mouse chase for the truth which makes this genre a fan favourite.  The Lincoln Lawyer is a solid addition to the long list of well-executed projects in the genre.

In Netflix’s latest, we meet Mickey Haller, a defence attorney who has been out of the game for a year due to a surfing accident that left him addicted to pills. A strange turn of events gives him a second chance at the profession that he is the best at, a remark which he and others repeatedly make during the course of the show.

The series does not project Mickey Haller to be just another defence attorney; he is a lawyer with guilt and a conscience, and this is where the show soars. He is a man who genuinely believes in the idea that, “better a thousand guilty men go free, than one innocent man rot in prison.” This belief, passed on by his father — who was a defence attorney himself — later becomes his hubris, leading him to take tough calls that will not only jeopardise his career, but also his relationships.

Source: TheHindu.com