TOVOICE OF DEFENSE
Genre: Legal drama
Direction: Ted Humphrey and David E. Kelley. With Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Neve Campbell, Becki Newton, Angus Sampson, Jazz Raycole, Christopher Gorham. On Netflix
The tradition of the American legal drama revived with splashes of glamor and mystery and with the profile of a protagonist so imperfect as to be likeable.
According to the results of the first weeks of release (in first place among the most viewed series on Netflix in Italy), the mix seems to hold up and work, making Defense attorney a simple product in structure, but effective in yield and deeper than it may initially appear.
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Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) is a Los Angeles attorney who has been parked in the pits for over a year due to a surfing accident; the mysterious killing of a friend and colleague of his suddenly puts him back on stagecalled to play the role of public defense attorney in a series of petty criminal cases against the backdrop of a bright city.
Manuel Garcia-Rulfo and Katrina Clark in “Defense Lawyer” (photo by Lara Solanki / Netflix).
More than the news, what stands out in this series inspired by the novel by Michael Connelly (from which a film with Matthew McConaughey had already been made) is the restless crossing of the protagonist, eaten by doubts, masked behind the need to dodge the sufferings of life. .
Haller is striking because he is eccentric, working on cases aboard his Lincoln (the original title of the series is The Lincoln Lawyer), with a plaque that reads “Not guilty” and a cell phone that rings with the call of “Secondwife” (“second wife”).
For those who love American narratives in terms of aesthetics and narrative implications.
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