The Lincoln Lawyer is Cleverly Updated, Old-School TV

The murder is a good one. Like the first season, the second season of Netflix’s “The Lincoln Lawyer” pivots around one particular crime. Here, it’s the killing of Mitchell Bondurant (Clint Carmichael), a greedy and potentially corrupt Los Angeles real estate developer who’s trying to gentrify huge swaths of the city for his pocketbook.

We never meet the man (or at least not in the first half of the ten-episode season, dropping July 6). There is no grieving widow or kids. He’s just the face on some billboards. So his death is more of a puzzle than a tragedy, something for defense attorney Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) to untangle and get entangled in. READ MORE

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