"Compelling Courtroom Drama Marred by Homosexual Plotline"
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The opener to Season 3 of THE LINCOLN LAWYER maintains the tone and style of the first two seasons. However, it’s marred by focusing heavily on a client's homosexual relationship and how that affects the client's time spent in prison. The dialogue is witty, and the courtroom scenes are engaging. But this episode exists to introduce and set up events and themes for later episodes. As a result, there are pacing issues, and episode one of season three is one of the weaker episodes in the Netflix series. Due to the homosexual focus, some foul language and violence, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for young adults and teen viewers.
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Season 3 of THE LINCOLN LAWYER, Netflix’s adaptation of the Michael Connelly books, follows the tone and style of the first two seasons.
Episode one, “La Culebra,” which means snake in Spanish, begins with a flashback of Mickey enjoying a simpler life with his wife on the beach. This starkly contrasts with his life now, where he’s constantly in danger from taking on private cases.
One case is the murder of Gloria Dayton. Mickey meets with the man accused of the murder, but the evidence isn’t conclusive enough for him to take on the case immediately. The rest of his team is re-introduced, and Mickey helps his daughter clear the name of her friend, Eddie, who becomes Mickey’s new driver.
As the episode progresses, there are several more flashbacks where Mickey buys the car from which he gets the moniker, the “Lincoln” lawyer, and some heartfelt conversations with his wife about his decision to leave the public sector of law to start a private practice. She makes him promise that he’ll be safe, but as audiences are brought back to the present, it’s clear that his life has changed drastically since then — and Mickey is far from safe.
In the episode’s final moments, Mickey finds that his house has been burglarized, and most of his belongings have been destroyed. He discovers a rattlesnake in his bed, and the episode ends.
The start of Season 3 of THE LINCOLN LAWYER sets up many themes, antagonists, and new protagonists that audiences will experience in later episodes. As a result, there are pacing issues. However, it maintains witty, fast-paced courtroom scenes, making Mickey’s character a joy to watch on screen.
This episode lets audiences in on what Mickey thinks through flashbacks to his past life with his wife and infant daughter, which add emotional depth to the character. Aside from these moments, the episode focuses on the homosexual relationship of one of Mickey’s clients and how that affects him in prison. This becomes the episode’s plotline, as all the characters are set up for the rest of the season. This does a disservice to the previous seasons’ pacing and generally moral themes, making this episode one the weakest of the series.
Due to some foul language and graphic descriptions of murder, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for younger audiences.