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Netflix fans declare ‘weekend sorted’ with return of hit legal thriller
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Netflix’s hit legal drama The Lincoln Lawyer has dropped all episodes of its latest season for viewers to binge at home this weekend.
Based on Michael Connelly’s bestselling novels, the series follows defense attorney Mickey Haller (Manuel García-Rulfo) on the other side of the courtroom as the defendant in a murder case.
Adapted from Connelly’s novel The Law of Innocence, Mickey races to clear his name after being accused of killing a former client.
Last year, fans threatened to ‘revolt’ if the series was cancelled, which was originally a remake of the 2011 Matthew McConaughey film of the same name.
Drawing on his legal expertise and support network form over the years, a number of familiar faces from previous seasons return.
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This includes Becki Newton as Lorna Crane, Jazz Raycole as Izzy Letts and Angus Sampson as Cisco.
In addition, Scream star Neve Campbell returns as Maggie McPherson, reprising her role as Mickey’s ex-wife and former prosecutor.
Taking to X following the release of all ten episodes of the show’s fourth season, viewers heaped praise on the Netflix series as @shvnique said: ‘The Lincoln Lawyer is one of the best shows Netflix has put out.’
@alentyler also declared that: ‘Lincoln Lawyer has to be one of the best legal series I’ve watched in recent times, it’s up there with Suits and Boston Legal.’
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Despite the Super Bowl in America coming on Sunday, Salaman said: ‘Forget the Super Bowl, I’m locking into the Lincoln Lawyer season 4.’
Meanwhile, Santana said: ‘I need season 5 of the Lincoln Lawyer today. I binged the entire new season last night.’
Nina furiously added that ‘work is keeping me from watching The Lincoln Lawyer’, as @lizzymax411 said: ‘Glad The Lincoln Lawyer was renewed for seasons 5 cause can’t wait to see where this sister story line will take us.’
However, not all fans were as equally happy with the latest series, as Chris argued: ‘Lincoln lawyer s4 I’m sorry but this is possibly the weakest case the prosecution has come up with throughout all the seasons.’
There is good news, though, for those of who have already binged every episode of the latest season, after Netflix confirmed that the series has already been renewed for a fifth season.
Production is expected to begin shortly after the premiere of the latest season.
This comes after Netflix sparked backlash using AI to disguise case studies in a new Lucy Letby documentary.
The 90-minute feature examines the Lucy Letby case and shows unseen footage from Chester police of her arrest.
Letby was arrested in 2020, with the former neonatal nurse charged with seven counts of murder and 15 counts of attempted murder in relation to 17 babies between June 2015 and June 2016.
The Lincoln Lawyer season 4 is available to watch on Netflix.
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