The end is nigh for Netflix’s near-perfect Bosch series, and fans are no doubt having a bittersweet moment. Although the 92% Rotten Tomatoes drama was renewed for its fifth and final season per MovieWeb earlier in January, it still has no official premiere date, but that will hopefully change in the coming weeks. In the meantime, the exceptional cast and crew are marking the end of an era for the phenomenal series with the terrific update every fan has been waiting for.
Focused on LA’s finest defense attorney, Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), The Lincoln Lawyer last aired in February with a game-changing Season 4 that nearly ended Mickey’s career. Not to mention, the finale introduced a shocking character in the form of Emi (Cobie Smulders), Mickey’s half-sister who will play a major role in his life moving forward. With that, Season 5 of the legal drama is inspired by Michael Connelly’s seventh Lincoln Lawyer novel, Resurrection Walk and will feature some new faces, including a Bosch star, all of whom will be joining your returning favorites.
About three months ago, we confirmed a production timeline and a possible premiere date for The Lincoln Lawyer’s final run, and now What’s on Netflix reports that filming has officially wrapped. Production on the 10-episode Season 5 has been underway throughout the spring and summer, with cameras rolling from March 2, 2026, until late last week across Los Angeles and the LA Thirty Mile Zone (TMZ). And to celebrate the emotional milestone, several of the show’s team have taken to social media, including co-showrunner and executive producer Dailyn Rodriguez, creator and co-showrunner Ted Humphrey, the leading man himself, Garcia-Rulfo, and cinematographer Dominic Bartolone, among others.
Collider Exclusive · TV Medicine Quiz Which Fictional Hospital Would You Work Best In? The Pitt · ER · Grey’s Anatomy · House · Scrubs
Five hospitals. Five completely different ways medicine goes sideways on television — brutal, chaotic, romantic, brilliant, and ridiculous. Only one of them is the ward your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out exactly where you belong.
🚨The Pitt
🏥ER
💉Grey’s
🔬House
🩺Scrubs
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A critical patient comes through the door. What’s your first instinct? Medicine under pressure reveals who you actually are.
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Why did you go into medicine in the first place? The honest answer says more about you than the one you’d give in an interview.
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What do you actually want from the people you work with? Who you want beside you under pressure is who you are.
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You lose a patient you fought hard to save. How do you carry it? Every doctor who’s worked a long shift has had to answer this question.
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How would your colleagues describe the way you work? Your reputation on the floor is usually more accurate than your self-image.
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How do you feel about hospital protocol and procedure? Every institution has rules. What you do with them is a choice.
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What does this job cost you personally? Nobody works in medicine without paying a price. What’s yours?
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At the end of a long shift, what keeps you coming back? The answer to this question is the most honest thing about you.
Your Assignment Has Been Made You Belong In…
Your answers have pointed to one fictional hospital above all others. This is the ward your instincts, your temperament, and your particular brand of dysfunction were built for.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center
The Pitt
You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has ever shown — one that puts you inside a single fifteen-hour shift and doesn’t let you look away.
You need your work to be real, not romanticised — meaning over drama, honesty over aesthetics.
You find purpose inside the work itself, not in the chaos surrounding it.
You’ve made peace with the fact that this job takes from you constantly, and gives back in ways that are harder to name.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center demands exactly that kind of person — and you would not want to be anywhere else.
County General Hospital, Chicago
ER
You are the person who keeps the whole floor running — not the most brilliant in the room, but possibly the most essential.
You show up, do the work, absorb the losses, and come back the next day without needing the job to be anything other than what it is.
You care about patients as individual human beings, not as cases to solve or dramas to live through.
You believe in the system even when it fails you — and you understand that emergency medicine is about holding the line just long enough.
ER is television about endurance. You have it.
Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, Seattle
Grey’s Anatomy
You came to medicine with your whole self — your ambition, your emotions, your relationships, your history — and you have never quite managed to leave any of it at the door.
You feel things fully and form deep attachments to the people you work with.
Your personal and professional lives are permanently, chaotically entangled — and that entanglement drives both your greatest disasters and your most remarkable saves.
You understand that extraordinary medicine often happens at the intersection of clinical skill and profound human connection.
It’s messy at Grey Sloan. You would not have it any other way.
Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, NJ
House
You are drawn to the problem above everything else — the symptom that doesn’t fit, the diagnosis hiding underneath the obvious one.
You’re not primarily motivated by the patient as a person — though you are capable of caring, even if you’d deny it.
You work best when the stakes are highest and the standard answer is wrong.
Princeton-Plainsboro exists to house one extraordinary, impossible mind — and everyone around that mind is there because they’re smart enough to keep up.
The only way forward here is to think harder than everyone else in the room. That is exactly what you do.
Sacred Heart Hospital, California
Scrubs
You understand that medicine is tragic and absurd in almost equal measure — and that the only sane response is to hold both of those things at the same time.
You are warm, self-aware, and funnier than most people in your field.
You use humour to get through terrible moments — and at Sacred Heart, that’s not a flaw, it’s a survival strategy.
You lean on the people around you and let them lean back. The laughter and the grief are genuinely inseparable here.
Scrubs is a show about learning to become someone worthy of the job. You are still very much in the middle of that process — which is exactly right.
When Will ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ Season 5 Premiere?
Looking at the filming timeline for the critically acclaimed show’s new season, it aligns with the 130-day production schedule of previous seasons. The Lincoln Lawyer Season 3 wrapped in mid-2024 and was released four months later, while Season 4 took about seven and a half months in post-production. Based on these patterns, Season 5 will likely premiere on Netflix sometime between late winter and spring 2027, with a February–April 2027 window highly possible.
In addition to Garcia-Rulfo returning as Mickey, The Lincoln Lawyer’s Season 5 will see Becki Newton, Jazz Raycole, Angus Sampson, and Neve Campbell also return. New stars, on the other hand, include Bosch star Amy Aquino, Angela Trimbur, Elpidia Carrillo, NateCorddry, Tricia Helfer, and Keir O’Donnell as recurring guest stars.
The Lincoln Lawyer Season 5 has entered post-production. Stick with Collider for an official premiere date.
