'The Law According to Lidia Poët' Final Season to Debut In April
The underrated legal drama will wrap up the story of Italy's first female lawyer this Spring.
So, there's good news and bad news for fans of Netflix's wildly underrated Italian period drama, The Law According to Lidia Poët. Good news: the show is returning for its third season sooner than many of us expected, and it's set to debut in just a few short weeks. Bad news: its third season will officially be the series's last.
Given that the show's second season underperformed to the extent that the show seemed to barely scrape a Season 3 renewal early last year, this news probably isn't all that surprising to the Lidia Poët faithful. And it simply makes this final run of episodes feel like even more of a gift, a chance to wrap up this scrappy little series's story on its own terms, and perhaps celebrate the many trails that the real Lidia managed to blaze.
The drama, loosely based on the life of Italy's first female lawyer, is one part legal procedural, one part family drama, one part feminist manifesto, and one of the most underrated series on the streamer. A case-of-the-week series, it stars Matilda De Angelis (The Undoing) as the titular Lidia, who takes a job at her brother's law firm following her public disbarment. Her clients are almost always women, and the show's cases tend to focus on female experiences and perspectives in ways that far too many in the procedural space don't bother with.
The third season will see Lidia take on one of her most personal cases to date, when her best friend, Grazia Fontana, is accused of killing her husband. A self-defense case with massive implications for wives, women, and the legal profession, Grazia's trial will see many aspects of Lidia's life collide, including her romance with Pierluigi Fourneau (Gianmarco Saurino), who has been promoted to the Court of Assizes and will be prosecuting Grazia's trial.
With Jacopo (Eduardo Scarpetta) back from Rome to cover the headline-making case, Lidia will finally be forced to decide which relationship is truly right for her.
Here's the Season 3 synopsis.
April 1887: Enrico became a member of Parliament, frequently traveling between Rome and Turin with Teresa, and he managed to bring Lidia’s law to committee. Lidia is impatient, but she knows she has to trust her brother. Meanwhile, she continues seeing Fourneau, though, of course, she has no intention of committing, marrying, or making their relationship public. Fourneau has been promoted: he’s now working at the Court of Assizes, and his big test to prove his worth is a murder case against a woman accused of killing her husband. The problem is that the defendant is Lidia’s dearest friend, Grazia Fontana, whose trial, centered on self-defense, will shake public opinion and their personal relationships. Jacopo, back in Turin with his new partner, decides to stay in town to cover what quickly becomes the most sensational and controversial trial of the time, in which Lidia and Fourneau find themselves on opposing sides. Proving that an abused wife killed in self-defense is a monumental challenge, perfect for Lidia: will she be able to convince an all-male jury to acquit Grazia Fontana, arguing that the real crime lies in the violence endured? And when it comes to her own heart, will she continue to believe that Fourneau is the right man for her or will she finally find the courage to embrace the relationship with Jacopo she’s always denied herself? Is it possible to rebalance the relationship between the sexes? And if politics won’t help, and society resists change, can we at least change things in our own lives?
Alongside De Angelis, Saurino, and Scarpetta, returning cast members Pier Luigi Pasino (Lovely Boy) as Lidia's brother, Enrico Poët; Sara Lazzaro (The Young Pope) as Enrico's wife, Teresa Barberis; and Sinéad Thornhill (Pale Mountains) as their daughter Marianna Poët.
New faces joining the show's final season include Liliana Bottone (The Monster of Florence) as Grazia and Ninni Bruschetta (Don Matteo) as the King’s Prosecutor, Cantamessa.
Guido Iuculano and Davide Orsini created The Law According to Lidia Poët. The final season's six episodes are directed by Letizia Lamartire, Pippo Mezzapesa, and newcomer Jacopo Bonvicini. Matteo Rovere produces the show for Groenlandia, a Banijay Group company.
The Law According to Lidia Poët Season 3 will premiere on Netflix on Wednesday, April 15, 2026. Seasons 1 and 2 are streaming now.
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