Mickey Haller will tell you that everybody lies. He’ll tell you repeatedly, until you believe it. But he doesn’t really believe it himself.
The criminal defense lawyer, based on Michael Connelly’s character and originated on screen by Matthew McConaughey in the 2011 movie “The Lincoln Lawyer,” is back in a new Netflix series of the same name that premiered last week with Mexican actor Manuel Garcia-Rulfo in the title role — the character is half-Mexican in the bestselling novels, a detail that was glossed over in the movie.
After almost a year off from work while he recovered from a drug and alcohol addiction, Mickey finds himself dumped with a full caseload when a colleague is found dead. Among the cases is a high-profile murder in which a millionaire video game designer allegedly killed his wife and her lover after finding them in bed together.
