Cobie Smulders joins Season 4 of Netflix's 'The Lincoln Lawyer'

 

We had earlier reported that filming of the Season 4 of The Lincoln Lawyer is officially underway with Manuel Garcia-Rulfo returning as defense attorney Mickey Haller along with Sasha Alexander and Constance Zimmer. The latest update is Cobie Smulders ("How I Met Your Mother", "The Avengers") has joined the cast, confirms Netflix. However, no details of her characters have been revealed yet. 

Smulders, whose resume features a long list of television credits, recently appeared in an episode of Shrinking and Accused.

The fourth season is based on the sixth book The Law of Innocence in Michael Connelly's 'Lincoln Lawyer' novels featuring defense attorney Mickey Haller, who became an audience favourite and naturally generating more interest in new seasons.

 

The cliffhanger ending of Season 3 was recently addressed by co-executive producer and co-showrunner Ted Humphrey, who told Netflix that the show will tackle "broad strokes of what specifically has happened and what charges — and adversaries — Mickey is facing," calling it the "biggest and most personal challenge Mickey has ever faced, and also the biggest roller coaster we’ve yet taken our audience on."

 

Humphrey shared his satisfaction at directing the beginning portions of Season 4 — the first two episodes, to be precise: "As a director, I was so happy with how the third season finale turned out, and I am also directing the opener of Season 4 so it feels like we are picking up right where we left off, which is really fun for me and also creatively very satisfying.”

 

Season 4 will be, according to him, Haller's "most personal case" and all the advice that he used to give his clients will have to be used on himself now after what happened in the last season. "He realizes how hollow some of it sounds when you’re the one it’s bouncing off of. He’s got to deal with how this impacts not just him but also his family and loved ones, not to mention his business! But don’t worry — he’s going to have help from some of the people our audience loves the most, as well as some familiar faces who will be cropping up along the way — some helpfully… some perhaps not so helpfully, and a few new ones as well.”

 

A previous movie adaptation of The Lincoln Lawyer came out in 2011, starring Mathew McConaughey. The first season of the series is based on The Brass Verdict, the sequel to the book that became the source material for the McConaughey film. The second season, released in two parts, was based on The Fifth Witness, and the third season on The Gods of Guilt.

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