Chase Infiniti in Presumed InnocentImage via Apple TV
Legal thrillers and cop dramas have become two of the most popular genres on TV and in movies, with fans eagerly awaiting more episodes of any show set in a courtroom or precinct. One of the biggest legal dramas to emerge in the last few years has been The Lincoln Lawyer, which is based on Michael Connelly’s series of novels of the same name. The show has run for four seasons on Netflix so far, and after a successful Season 4 that wrapped up just over a month ago, Netflix has confirmed that Season 5 is on the way. Connelly also wrote the series of books that inspired the hit Prime Video series, Bosch, starring Titus Welliver. Bosch has already aired two spin-offs, and a prequel starring Cameron Monaghan is also in the works.
One show that effortlessly blends the nuances between both Bosch and The Lincoln Lawyer is Presumed Innocent. While primarily a legal thriller, Presumed Innocent does feature characters going out on the hunt for justice while searching for clues to the case in between outings to the courtroom. The first season of Presumed Innocent premiered back in 2024, and with the power of Jake Gyllenhaal at the center, it became one of Apple TV’s biggest hits. The show was renewed for Season 2, which is now in production, though Gyllenhaal will not return to star and will instead be replaced by Superman’s Rachel Brosnahan. It’s unclear at this time when Presumed Innocent Season 2 will be released, but fans are rushing to check out the streaming show, leading it back into the Apple TV global top 10 in several countries around the world.
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Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie? Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
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🐦Birdman
🪙No Country for Old Men
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?
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How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
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What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
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What do you want from a film’s ending? The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
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Which setting pulls you in most? Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.
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What cinematic craft impresses you most? Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
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What kind of main character do you root for? The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
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How do you feel about a film that takes its time? Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
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What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema? The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
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The Academy Has Decided Your Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
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Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.
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Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
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Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
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No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
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What Is ‘Presumed Innocent’ About?
The first season of Presumed Innocent is set in the wake of the murder of Carolyn Polhemus, a prosecutor at the DA’s office in Chicago. It’s quickly revealed that she was in the middle of a passionate love affair with Rusty Sabich (played by Jake Gyllenhaal), who emerges as the only suspect in the crime. The first season takes place over the course of the case while Rusty is on trial for her murder. Presumed Innocent is an anthology series, meaning that the second season will feature entirely new characters and a new case to investigate.
Check out the first season of Presumed Innocent on Apple TV and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Season 2.
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