On the small screen, the tables turn: The Haller series The Lincoln Lawyer debuted its third season last month on Netflix while the first season of Cross, announced nearly five years ago, finally arrives Thursday on Amazon Prime Video.
Within the boundaries of the problematic-genius formula, Cross represents the dark yin and The Lincoln Lawyer the bright yang. Cross goes for self-consciously heavy, The Lincoln Lawyer for perilously light.
Most significant, perhaps, Cross is out to sanctify its protagonist; The Lincoln Lawyer, while it provides Haller with a full allotment of anguish, never asks us to feel sorry for him.
Choosing not to base Cross on a specific Patterson novel ... Watkins frees himself to cook up a lurid but not very exciting stew of serial-killer horror, buddy-cop action, social-justice point-making and sentimentality.
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