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‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ Creator Finally Breaks Silence on Ending the Series [Exclusive]

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Legal dramas and cop thrillers have taken no prisoners in the last few years in their conquest to take the streaming world by storm. Nearly every streaming service now has a flagship property in each of the genres — for Prime Video, it’s Bosch, the hit cop series starring Titus Welliver. Welliver has led two different Bosch shows, and now there’s a Ballard spin-off returning next month, as well as a Start of Watch prequel led by Cameron Monaghan. Over on Netflix, Bosch fans have found themselves enjoying The Lincoln Lawyer, the hit legal thriller starring Manuel Garcia-Rulfo. While there are plenty of differences between the shows to pick apart, they have so many overarching fans due to both being inspired by the writings of legendary crime author Michael Connelly.

Matthew McConaughey also brought The Lincoln Lawyer to life on the big screen back in 2011, but most fans would agree that the Netflix series is a much more faithful adaptation of Connelly’s source material. Netflix’s Lincoln Lawyer series first premiered back in 2022, and the streamer has consistently released new seasons of the show almost every year since. A few weeks before The Lincoln Lawyer Season 4 came out this year, Netflix picked up the show for Season 5 before later announcing that it would be the final season of the series.

There are eight books in The Lincoln Lawyer series, starting with The Lincoln Lawyer (2005) and leading to The Proving Ground (2025).

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Collider’s Maggie Lovitt recently had a chance to chat with The Lincoln Lawyer writer and creator Ted Humphrey for Collider’s Dad TV Streaming Guide. When asked if fans would feel like the story is “complete” after watching the ending, he told Collider: “The answer that you’ve teed up so very nicely is yes. That was the most important thing.” He admitted that “we could have kept this show going for another season or two, and we had ideas to do that. But, we are very grateful to Netflix for giving us the opportunity to wrap the show up correctly.”

Humphrey continued, speaking about how most network shows are never given the chance to wrap things up properly before being canceled mid-story:

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“It’s a luxury that you have in the streaming universe that you didn’t generally have on network TV, which is the luxury of knowing in advance, and because we knew in advance, we were able to craft what we feel is a very satisfying ending to the show, one that hopefully can propel, potentially, some of our characters into new arenas, but that will also leave the audience feeling like they’ve watched a five-part thing that has come to an organic, and satisfying, and, hopefully, fulfilling conclusion.”































































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When Does ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ Season 5 Come Out?

Netflix has not set a date yet for The Lincoln Lawyer Season 5, but the show is expected to return next year around the same time that the last season came out. Production on The Lincoln Lawyer Season 5 kicked off a few months ago, not long after all episodes of the fourth season were dropped on Netflix, and it’s expected to wrap sometime later in the summer. With Humphrey teasing characters going into “new arenas,” though, it’s hard not to be excited about the potential for future spin-offs out of the Lincoln Lawyer universe. The show could follow in Bosch’s footsteps and develop a spin-off focused on a character soon to be introduced in the final season.

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Check out the first four seasons of The Lincoln Lawyer on Netflix and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of the fifth and final season.


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2022 – 2027-00-00

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Netflix

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