- Netflix has confirmed that The Lincoln Lawyer season 5 will also be the final in the series
- Season 5 was renewed in late January 2026, and production is currently underway
- Showrunners have promised 'the satisfying finale Mickey Haller deserves'
Netflix has (very quietly) announced that season 5 of legal drama The Lincoln Lawyer, which is currently in development, will be its last.
The news comes as part of a list of 17 Netflix shows that will be getting the chop after 2026, which includes Alice In Borderland, The Night Agent, The Abandons and Breathless.
According to Deadline, The Lincoln Lawyer appeared on the Netflix Global Top 10 charts for 29 weeks across its four seasons and has garnered 171 million views since 2023.
Season 4 launched with nine million views for its opening weekend, which is actually up over the third season's debut performance of seven million.
While Netflix hasn't given a direct reason for the shows it has chosen to cancel, fans don't need to be too worried just yet — season 5 might be the last, but it means we've still got a promised satisfying ending ahead.
The Lincoln Lawyer showrunners promise 'satisfying finale' despite unexpected cancelation
Series developer Ted Humphrey and co-showrunner Dailyn Rodriguez addressed the decision in a press statement, promising "the satisfying finale Mickey Haller deserves."
"All good things must come to an end, but thankfully sometimes how they come to an end is up to us. From the very beginning, the mission was always not only to tell the story of Mickey Haller and his compatriots, but also to give that story a proper conclusion," it said.
Details on specific season 5 plot are not publicly available, and as episodes are currently still in production, showrunners should be able to tweak anything needed to provide a full and resolute farewell (i.e. no annoying threads left untied).
This is all most likely to springboard from what we saw at the end of season 4, which ended with Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) recovering from being framed for murder.
He was approached by Emi Finch (Cobie Smulders), his newly discovered half-sister, who pleads with him to help free a wrongfully convicted woman.
While The Lincoln Lawyer as a TV show will come to an end, we can't rule out potential spinoffs or a movie treatment, as we've just seen with Peaky Blinders. In short, anything is possible.
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