Mickey Haller, the lawyer played by Manuel Garcia Rulfo, is already polishing his Lincoln. Netflix, which requested a second season of The Lincoln Lawyer, has set a release date for the second season, which this time will be broadcast in two parts: the first five episodes can be seen starting July 6 in the Netflix catalog. platform and the remaining five will be available on August 3.
This maneuver confirms (again) a change in the functioning of Netflix: its managers may maintain that its broadcast model is based on the marathon but, as series such as Stranger things, You or the final season of Money Heist show, they are predisposed to break their own rule on a more regular basis. In other words, instead of premiering all the episodes of the season at once, generating conversation, word of mouth and media awareness in a very short period of time, now they prefer a double impact and, therefore, get twice the performance of the most popular assets.
And it is that The Lincoln lawyer was one of Netflix’s surprises in 2022. It premiered in May with hardly any promotion and with a medium budget. It had the aroma and appearance of conventional television compared to high-profile bets like Stranger things or more authorial looks like Bronca or Dahmer. But it managed to stay on the list of the most watched series in the English language, leading it in its second season and accumulating 305 million hours watched among subscribers. It even survived the fact that, when it had been in the catalog for two weeks, the Millie Bobby Brown series premiered its long-awaited fourth season.
This light drama with touches of a thriller is based on the character of Michael Connelly and is created by David E. Kelley, the screenwriter of Big Little Lies or The Undoing who swept the judicial genre in the nineties with Ally McBeal and The Lawyer. In the first season, Mickey Haller was a down-on-his-luck lawyer who, following the suspicious death of a lawyer, inherited a law firm. At the same time, he was dealing with his two ex-wives: Lorna (Becki Newton), who is also his right-hand man at work, and Maggie (Neve Campbell), the mother of his daughter who works at the same job. sector.
The second season, which will have ten episodes, will be based on The Fifth Witness, Connelly’s fourth novel starring Mickey Haller in a fictional universe that also features detective Harry Bosch. Of course, nobody expects an appearance by Bosch because this character, for the moment, finds his own adaptation on Amazon Prime Video.
