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Originally posted by smschulz:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by 0-0:
I do see the resemblance to Goliath and even to Bosch.

He is Bosch's half brother, after all.

Even though she’s 48 Neve Campbell still spins my propeller.

I'm liking it so far, and actually prefer the current cast to the McConaughey version.

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Originally posted by xaircav:
Even though she’s 48 Neve Campbell still spins my propeller.

Better than ever, imo. But I'm appreciating older women more and more lately.

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Originally posted by smschulz:

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Originally posted by 0-0:
Thanks for the replies to my questions.

Basically going back to my too many deja vu opinion. Reminds me of Donovan, the one with Billy Bob Thorton, and other tv lawyers tricks and plots.

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I do see the resemblance to Goliath and even to Bosch.
Not so much on the deja vu except to establish a character and it doesn't bother me.
Have seen 4 eps and like it quite a bit so far.

Finished watching it.
No spoilers.

Even the view from his apartment / deck reminded me of Bosch’s place. Kept looking for the Ohm Walsh speakers or the turntable. Neighbors?

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^ They live in close proximity with each other, but Haller lives down below the Hollywood Hills in the novels.

I’m about half a dozen episodes in and am having trouble getting engaged with it. It’s not very realistic, which I find a bit distracting.

Spoiler warning—when an attorney gets himself murdered, the cops start searching his law office, going through documents because a clue to his murder might be in the files. They continue until the “replacement” attorney, the protagonist, shows up and confronts them.

I have a hard time imagining a homicide investigation where cops would start searching through victim’s law office for files without a search warrant.

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Originally posted by BigSwede:
We finished it last night, we liked it. Quite a surprise at the end

^^^^^^^^This!

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Originally posted by YellowJacket:

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Originally posted by AUTiger89:
Why would they use an actor without an American accent? Odd.

I really enjoyed the books, so I'll check it out.

Haller had a Mexican mother and lived primarily with her in Mexico City, only spending summers in LA with his dad.

I will say his accent takes away from being a super slick defense attorney.

Yeah, only when I started watching it did I realize he was hispanic. At first I thought it was eastern European.

That having been said, I'm 2 episodes in and think he fits the role really well. I'm quite enjoying it.

I enjoyed the series. I think the actor brought a lot of the character to the screen.

Three episodes in and I'm enjoying it.

As said, I was confused by his accent at first. It sounded like it could have been Eastern European to me too.

Cisco isn't what I was expecting either.

FYI - first half of season 2 of the Lincoln Lawyer just dropped onto Netflix. Second half will be released in August.

I just saw this drop too. Something else to add to my ever growing list.

I recently finished the 3rd book and decided to re-watch the first season. When I finished the last episode I realized that the first half of season 2 would be released the next day.

On second watch, I really liked it. Referring to the actors, Mickey is great, as is the actor playing the smarmy game designer. Y'all may like Maggie, but I am smitten with Lorna. And, of course, they had to make Mickey's driver a lesbian.

I think Cisco is totally miscast. He just doesn't seem to fit. I do understand having to replace Bosch with another detective since Amazon has the rights to Bosch.

Season 2 doesn't use the storyline of book 3, but is pretty good through episode 5. I'm looking forward to the second half on August 3rd.

I tried it, and no, I am out.

I try to suspend disbelief about lawyer shows, because most writers don't really understand the law and lawyering. I try to overlook technical errors, but sometimes they miss the mark so much that I just can't enjoy the drama. This is like that. Plus, the story doesn't seem that good to start.

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Originally posted by jhe888:
I tried it, and no, I am out.

I try to suspend disbelief about lawyer shows, because most writers don't really understand the law and lawyering. I try to overlook technical errors, but sometimes they miss the mark so much that I just can't enjoy the drama. This is like that. Plus, the story doesn't seem that good to start.

I hear you, jhe888. I can't agree with you about the Lincoln Lawyer because I have no legal expertise to judge it against.

But my professional career was in IT and it ruined a number of movies for me. That probably started with Wargames (hacking a mainframe with a home micro computer when at the time the two of them couldn't even exchange ASCII characters in the same format) and my "Fake IT Alarm" continues to this day (every Mission Impossible movie, etc).

I guess I just learned to overlook Hollywood's deliberate ignorance of IT facts because it was impacting my enjoyment, not their business.

I probably like The Lincoln Lawyer because my legal ignorance matches the production company's.

I think any show is ruined when it touches one's profession. Aviation is always wrong. Most times it is so wrong that it ruins the show for me.

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Originally posted by jhe888:
I tried it, and no, I am out.

I try to suspend disbelief about lawyer shows, because most writers don't really understand the law and lawyering. I try to overlook technical errors, but sometimes they miss the mark so much that I just can't enjoy the drama. This is like that.

I know the feeling. Being a computer and network guy I see that kind of thing all the time. I just comment to my wife "It doesn't work like that," laugh, and let it go. Though, yeah, ISTR there was at least one tech-oriented series or movie I simply couldn't sit through, it was so wrong in every last respect.

We liked The Lincoln Lawyer S1 and are looking forward to S2. It'll be a while, though, as we're not even midway through S2 of Suits, and NF has eight seasons of that.

(IANAL, but, I'm pretty sure Suits is riddled with inaccuracies and "that would never happen" stuff, too. E.g.: A man without a law license practicing law for a major law firm. [On a scale of 1-10, that's about a "0.5" in terms of plot spoilers.])

I am a criminal defense attorney and, for me, I generally (read as 'always') hate attorney shows. But while this is certainly Hollywooded up for 1) pacing and 2) action, there are enough things that they get right to keep me interested and enough things that when I scream "Objection!" and jump on the counch, the wife thinks it's funny and not annoying.

I really like everyone but Cisco, with whom I have some serious problems because I keep wondering who dyes his hair and why does he keep trying to channel Batman's voice? But all the other characters are very good and very interesting.

Like I said, I like it.

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Originally posted by Rucker:


But my professional career was in IT and it ruined a number of movies for me.
That probably started with Wargames (hacking a mainframe with a home micro computer when at the time the two of them couldn't even exchange ASCII characters in the same format) and my "Fake IT Alarm" continues to this day (every Mission Impossible movie, etc).

I guess I just learned to overlook Hollywood's deliberate ignorance of IT facts because it was impacting my enjoyment, not their business.

I probably like The Lincoln Lawyer because my legal ignorance matches the production company's.

No doubt seeing IT drives me crazy too.
Everying from the single floppy disk saving the world in Hackers to all of the same nerd character in those crime dramas that instantly can track and determine anything anywhere all by typing a slew of ASCII characters at an alarming rate where a couple seconds later they have already hacked whatever.

But not a lawyer so Lincoln Lawyer - I enjoy but I know the legal process is not accurate, just don't care.