Prime Video’s 2-Part ‘Lincoln Lawyer’ Replacement Is Officially Taking Over the World

For four seasons now, The Lincoln Lawyer has been one of the most popular legal dramas on television. Adapted from Michael Connelly‘s book series of the same name, the show has put its main protagonist, Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), through the wringer as he fights to secure not-guilty verdicts for his clients. However, complications have put him in the crosshairs of everyone, from ultra-rich defendants to organized crime and even corrupt law enforcement. None of that has stopped Haller, but his journey is about to come to an end in the fifth and final season, which is currently in development.

But for fans of legal dramas, USA Network has already debuted a perfect replacement series, now airing its second season. This show marks the network’s return to scripted programming after delivering massive hits in the 2010s, including Suits and White Collar. The legal drama has all those qualities that make The Lincoln Lawyer entertaining to watch — a dedicated lawyer, moral and legal quandaries, and likable characters. It is no surprise that the thriller titled The Rainmaker has become a streaming favorite.

The series is based on John Grisham‘s book of the same name. Instead of focusing on a flashy lawyer like Haller, The Rainmaker follows Rudy Baylor (Milo Callaghan), a young lawyer fresh out of law school, as he takes on powerful corporate and legal rivals to secure justice for his clients. The show returned for a second season this month, which finds Baylor’s underdog law firm taking on several cases, including abused children, an international conspiracy, and sports. The Rainmaker‘s new season has pushed it up the charts, where it is now one of the most popular shows on Prime Video in the US, peaking at number one according to FlixPatrol.

Four teams, four completely different reasons to put yourself in danger
for strangers. This is the roster you actually belong on, what they would want from you, and what it
would cost you to stay.

You belong where the stakes are largest and the personalities are
loudest. This is a team of people who are all used to being the most important person in the
room, which is exactly why it works and exactly why it keeps nearly falling apart.

• The Avengers are not friends who became a team. They are a team that slowly and
  reluctantly became friends, and you would recognise every stage of that process.
• You can hold your own among big egos without needing to win every exchange, which is the
  real entry requirement here.
• The arguing is part of the method. This group does its best thinking mid-disagreement,
  usually at volume, usually in a very expensive building.
• When the sky opens, they are who shows up. You would want to be standing in that line.

You have never had the luxury of being thanked for this. The
X-Men protect a world that has never once been comfortable with them existing, and something
in you understands exactly why they keep doing it anyway.

• This is the only team on the list whose central conflict is not a villain. It is being
  wanted gone by the same people they keep saving.
• You know what it is to be the outsider in a room and to decide, anyway, that you will
  not make yourself smaller so everyone else is comfortable.
• The X-Men are the most genuine found family in comics. People arrive with nowhere else
  to go and are never once asked to explain themselves.
• You would not be joining for the glory. There has never been any.

You do not want colleagues, you want your people. The Titans are
the team where the friendship came first and the world-saving turned up afterwards as an
inconvenient side effect.

• Every Titan is somebody’s sidekick who decided to stop being one. That decision, not the
  villain of the week, is what the team is actually about.
• You would be joining people who are all working themselves out at the same time as you,
  which is far less lonely than being the only one.
• The Titans lose regularly. Then they eat together and come back better, which is a more
  honest model of growing up than any other team here manages.
• The tower would be loud, chaotic, and the first place that ever felt like yours.

You are not asking who to trust. You worked out the answer a
while ago and it was nobody in a cape. This is where you go once you have decided the people
in charge need watching, and that nobody else is going to do it.

• The Boys have no powers, no mandate and no funding. What they have is leverage,
  patience, and a very high tolerance for consequences.
• You are the person in the room who notices the thing everybody else has quietly agreed
  not to mention.
• This is not a heroic team and it has never pretended otherwise. It is a group of damaged
  people doing necessary work in ways nobody would call clean.
• You would not sleep well. You would keep going anyway.

Is ‘The Rainmaker’ a Good Show?

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The entertainment value of the drama depends on who you ask. Critics were not impressed by the first season, giving it a mere 55% on Rotten Tomatoes. “Stripping John Grisham’s novel of its flavor in favor of a more clichéd courtroom format, this Rainmaker adaptation only produces intermittent showers,” their consensus reads. Many critics didn’t tune in to review Season 2, so they haven’t added a score yet. However, viewers loved the series, giving it a much higher score of 83%. That explains why it returned for another season, and the streaming rankings are encouraging. This week, Rudy is ready to face off against the powers that be as he takes Victor’s (Asher De Land) case to court, while Bruiser (Lana Parrilla) and Sarah (Madison Iseman) deal with their own problems.

Watch The Rainmaker on USA Network on Fridays and stay tuned to Collider for more updates.

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