‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ Officially Meets Its Match in Lana Parrilla’s Legal Hit

Published Oct 31, 2026, 7:30 AM EDT

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Lana Parrilla has that quality that makes her feel like every role she's played could not have been done justice by anyone else. The actress stole the show in ABC's fantasy drama Once Upon a Time, where she played both Regina and the Evil Queen, bringing emotional depth and elevating the characters. But whether it's in a starring role or a guest arc, Parrilla knows how to command the screen. This is especially clear in her guest arc on The Lincoln Lawyer, where she plays Lisa Trammell.

First appearing in Season 2, Lisa initially fools Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), and they begin a romantic relationship before Mickey realizes something about Lisa's story doesn't add up. Even the audience is no wiser until Mickey makes an unimpeachable case that leads to Lisa's arrest; Parrilla also guest stars in the third season. However, the actress has moved on from Lisa and has now switched sides, playing a lawyer in USA Network's legal drama The Rainmaker.

Parrilla's Jocelyn "Bruiser" Stone is not half as posh as Haller, but they both lead a small but dedicated team of lawyers taking cases that could land them in major trouble as they go against institutional rot. Parrilla brings the grit that makes it believable that the show's main character, Rudy Baylor (Milo Callaghan), has someone in his corner. The series premiered last year and was renewed for a second season that is currently airing on Fridays. While USA Network does not release weekly viewership numbers, The Rainmaker has become a streaming sensation on Prime Video, where U.S. viewers can stream new episodes. Ranked first on FlixPatrol, the show has built an audience that can't wait for new episodes every week.

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Every team is a personality test with a uniform. One saves the world and argues about it the whole way home. One has been fighting for the right to exist since the day it formed. One is still working out who it is while the fighting happens. And one has no powers at all, plus no intention of playing fair. Eight questions decide where you actually belong.

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🧬X-Men(Marvel)

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Why join a team at all? Nobody puts on the suit for the reason they say out loud.

ABecause some threats are too big for anyone alone. BBecause people like me are safer together than apart. CBecause I did not want to do any of this alone. DBecause somebody has to hold these people accountable.

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How do you feel about the people in charge? Every team has a chain of command. Very few of them survive contact.

AI will follow a good leader and argue with a bad one. BThey have never protected people like me. I expect nothing. CI am still learning who to trust, and getting it wrong. DThey are the problem. That is the entire point.

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How do you win a fight you should lose? This is the scene the entire film gets built around.

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What is this work costing you? Nobody does this for free. The bill just arrives differently for everyone.

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The offer arrives. What makes you say yes? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides your team.

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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.

The Avengers

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.

The X-Men

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.

The Teen Titans

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.

The Boys

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.

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Is 'The Rainmaker' a Good Show?

The series marks USA Network's return to scripted programming after dominating the 2000s and 2010s with shows like Suits and White Collar. As a result, The Rainmaker has those qualities that elevate it beyond a regular network drama with darker themes and witty dialogue, but it also features slower pacing and weekly cases. Critics were not impressed with the first season, giving it a 55% score on Rotten Tomatoes while saying that it strips "John Grisham's novel of its flavor in favor of a more clichéd courtroom format." However, viewers seem to disagree, giving the series an 83% score. In next Friday's episode titled "Numerosity," Rudy's case evolves into a class action that takes shape while Amanda (Merle Dandrige) tests Sarah's (Madison Iseman) loyalty. Meanwhile, Bruiser helps Tom's (Austin Nichols) star pitcher.

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

Release Date August 15, 2025

Milo Callaghan

Rudy Baylor
Lana Parrilla

Jocelyn 'Bruiser' Stone

Is 'The Rainmaker' a Good Show?

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