• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

So Many Shows!

Find more to love about your TV shows with So Many Shows! TV Reviews, Interviews, Recaps, Radio, Podcasts, and more!

  • Articles
  • Reviews
  • Podcasts
  • Interviews
  • TV Talk!
  • About Us
  • Partners
  • Contact
You are here: Home / Podcast / Netflix’s The Lincoln Lawyer: Exclusive interview with showrunner Ted Humphrey

Netflix’s The Lincoln Lawyer: Exclusive interview with showrunner Ted Humphrey

December 28, 2021 by Tracey Phillipps 3 Comments

Ted Humphrey, Executive Producer for The Lincoln Lawyer on Netflix
Take a moment to share:
https://media.blubrry.com/so_many_shows/somanyshows.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Lincoln-Lawyer-TV-podcast-1-interview-with-EP-Ted-Humphrey.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

The Lincoln Lawyer series is coming to Netflix. Showrunner Ted Humphrey shares some great insights into what is in store for the viewers.

Legal dramas are not new to Ted Humphrey. A former attorney himself, Ted was the Executive Producer of the popular series The Good Wife prior to overseeing The Lincoln Lawyer at Netflix. Ted graciously agreed to an interview for the inaugural episode of our podcast coverage for The Lincoln Lawyer series.

Viewers anxiously await a release date for the new series. Meanwhile, they can immerse themselves in the Michael Connelly novels from which the series is adapted. Ted shared that Michael was very present on set and in the writers room. The showrunner spoke very highly of the best-selling author, saying, “He couldn’t be more fun, just a wonderful guy, incredibly talented, and incredibly dedicated to doing the best show possible.”

The Lincoln Lawyer season one filming has wrapped. I think we have something really good. Can’t wait to share it with the world. -MC#TheMartiniShot #Netflix pic.twitter.com/Zw8CTTHKdz

— Michael Connelly (@Connellybooks) August 3, 2021

I posed several questions to Ted hoping to get a feel for the series without spoiling anything for the viewers. We have seen very few photos or details on social media about the series, which wrapped filming in August. Read on to find out some of the insights Ted shared about The Lincoln Lawyer. For the full interview, tune into the podcast episode.

How well-versed do viewers need to be in “legalese” to enjoy the show?

Ted: That’s an interesting question, and ultimately the answer is not at all or no more well-versed than you need to be to read the books. Michael does a great job. The books are really clever as well as very exacting in terms of getting it right. He consults with a lot of lawyers when he writes the books as well as legal consultants and what not. Michael also does a great job of explaining in the books in a very engrossing and storytelling way of letting you know the things you need to know to understand about what’s going on. We endeavor to do that in the show as well.

One of the great things about the books is that they are written in first person perspective from Mickey (played by Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), which makes them different from the Bosch books. The Bosch books are written in third person, but The Lincoln Lawyer books are written in the first person and Mickey can speak directly to the reader and explain to them why he’s doing what he’s doing. And we found a way on the show to kind of mimic that in a way that isn’t just voiceover or exposition. I think that may be a unique aspect of the storytelling of the show that I think readers of the books and viewers are going to enjoy.

Are viewers going to spend more time watching from inside the Lincoln, inside the courtroom, or outside of both?

Ted: I honestly would say the answer to that is we are pretty equal in all. The show is called The Lincoln Lawyer. He is the Lincoln Lawyer because one of the unique things about him is that he drives around Los Angeles in a Lincoln going from courthouse to courthouse and we do spend a lot of time in it. It really becomes a character in the show and the relationship with the person that’s driving the Lincoln becomes a character in the show. It’s a really fun and different aspect of this character. 

We spend a lot of time in court. It’s a legal show and, particularly, there’s one big case for the season. As that case kicks into high gear, of course you spend more time there in the latter half of the season. But there are other smaller cases in the first half of the season that put us in the court as well as aspects of the big case.

And then we spend a lot of time in various other places. A big location in the books is Mickey’s house. In some ways it’s similar to Bosch’s house. Mickey also lives in a house in the Hollywood Hills with a view. We have that and we have Maggie’s house (Maggie portrayed by Neve Campbell) that used to be Mickey’s house because the characters are divorced and co-parenting their daughter.

Mickey doesn’t traditionally have an office, but in the book The Brass Verdict, which we adapted, he kind of inherits one. I don’t want to give too much away. So, there are a lot of different locations we spend time in. And it was really important to us to bring books to life authentically. The books are set in Los Angeles. We shot this in LA. It really lives in the verisimilitude of the LA locations and all that, again in the same way that Bosch does.


These are just a couple of the questions we posed to our showrunner guest. We also discuss chemistry among the cast, postproduction, the commitment to authenticity and more. Ted also responds to my request for 3 words he would use to describe the series. To hear all that Ted Humphrey had to share, listen to our premiere podcast episode about The Lincoln Lawyer at SoManyShows.com.

Press the play icon at the top of the post to listen here or listen via Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iHeartRADIO and Stitcher by subscribing to the So Many Shows podcast feed.

Thank you so much for tuning in!

Music courtesy of subscription to zapsplat.com.

You can follow ongoing coverage at So Many Shows and  on Twitter @LincolnLawPod.

Stay connected with So Many Shows:

Like us on Facebook!

Follow us on Twitter

Subscribe on YouTube

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)

Related

  • Tweet

Filed Under: Articles, Interviews, Podcast Tagged With: Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Michael Connelly, Netflix, Neve Campbell, Ted Humphrey, The Brass Verdict, The Lincoln Lawyer, The Lincoln Lawyer series

About Tracey Phillipps

Enthusiastic SMS contributor, interviewer and co-host of the Lincoln Law Pod and Everybody Counts Podcasts 🎧🎙

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Primary Sidebar

Subscribe to SMS!

RECENT ITEMS

The Lincoln Lawyer: Podcast for episode 9 with Manuel Garcia-Rulfo

Bosch: Legacy – Podcast for S1E8 with writer Osokwe Vasquez

The Lincoln Lawyer: Podcast for S1E8 with Puja Mohindra

Bosch: Legacy – Podcast for season 1 episode 7 ‘One of Your Own’

The Lincoln Lawyer: Podcast for episode 7 including Q&A with Ted Humphrey

Bosch: Legacy – Podcast for episode S1E6 with Tom Bernardo

The Lincoln Lawyer: Podcast for episode 6 ‘Bent’

The Lincoln Lawyer: Podcast for episode 5 ‘Twelve Lemmings in a Box’

The Lincoln Lawyer: Showrunner Ted Humphrey weighs in on Jerry Vincent

The Lincoln Lawyer: Podcast for episode 4 ‘Chaos Theory’ with Ted Humphrey

Bosch: Legacy – Behind the scenes with Mitzi Roberts and Tim Marcia

The Lincoln Lawyer: Investigating case file S1E10 ‘The Brass Verdict’

The Lincoln Lawyer: Investigating case file S1E9 ‘The Uncanny Valley’

Bosch: Legacy – Podcast for S1E4, S1E5 plus interview with Denise Sanchez

The Lincoln Lawyer: Podcast for S1E3 with Ted Humphrey

The Lincoln Lawyer: Investigating case file S1E8 ‘The Magic Bullet Redux’

Bosch: Legacy – Everybody Counts Podcast on S1E3 with Kurt Kanazawa

The Lincoln Lawyer: Podcast episode for S1E2 with showrunner Ted Humphrey

The Lincoln Lawyer: Investigating case file S1E7 ‘Lemming Number Seven’

Bosch: Legacy – Investigating season 1 episode 10 ‘Always/All Ways’

Get Social

  • View somanyshows’s profile on Facebook
  • View so_many_shows’s profile on Twitter
  • View so_many_shows’s profile on Instagram
  • View UCTz3jfVlM_nT0GmfjBg_hjQ’s profile on YouTube

Share Us with friends

Translate

Recent Podcasts

Bosch: Legacy – Interview with Henrik Bastin on season 2

Bosch: Legacy – Podcast for season 1 episode 10

The Lincoln Lawyer: Podcast for S1E10 with Manuel Garcia-Rulfo

Bosch: Legacy – Podcast for season 1 episode 9

The Lincoln Lawyer: Podcast for episode 9 with Manuel Garcia-Rulfo

More Podcasts...

Listen to podcasts:

So Many Shows Podcast

Archives

Footer

Visit and like us on facebook!

Visit and like us on facebook!

Follow us on Twitter

My Tweets
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies to store information
on your computer. Some are essential to make our site work. Others help us improve your
user experience or to allow us to track behavior and user patterns. Our Policy

Youtube!

Copyright © 2023 · Metro Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in