I can't believe how bad this was, from the very first minute. My disappointment is fueled by the contrast with the quality of the Lincoln Lawyer movie being so excellent.
First scene has the main character trying to get over some trauma. Please, give me a break from this trope already. Bosch: Legacy has already made me crazy with two characters being traumatized head cases; I need it here to? Next cliché is the Lincoln. The beauty shots of Mickey driving his classic convertible were straight out of a TV commercial. As a matter of fact, much of the show it a TV commercial for Lincoln. Even the two consecutive close-up shots on his Lincoln keychain at courthouse security. How can you put that in there, and not expect people to notice they're watching a commercial?
More clichés: Not one, but two adoring ex-wives. Late to pick up the kid. The gruff but well meaning police detective. The megalomaniac inventor/industrialist client who may or may not have done the murder. More loving shots of Lincolns, all ugly as except for the classic.
In the movie, Micky rode around in the backseat of a Lincoln. No one ever talked about Lincolns. There were no glamor shots of the car. It was just the way he got around town. The reason for the name is that he ran his practice out of the backseat of a car, which happened to be a Lincoln, not because he ran his practice out of the backseat of a Lincoln.
Then there's the swirling camera, the perpetual 3-day beard, the long boring pointless speeches that sound nothing like how people talk... This is a show for people who think Law & Order is good.
