"If you can smoke and drink while doing it, it's not a sport" - a thread for BOSCH

Finished last night. I’ll wait til some more are done.

A little bit of background on the real-life event that Connelly used for The Burning Room (S7 is based on it)
https://www.dailynews.com/2017/02/06/lapd-announces-arrests-in-1993-arson-fire-that-claimed-12-lives/

INCEL COPS

Bosch is such a boomer cool dad caricature, particularly this season - but I guess that makes him realistic. He reminds me of so many people around me.
Sad to see this ensemble go and it will definitely leave a hole in my TV landscape - this was such a welcome break from blue-tinged scandi-noir copycats.
I guess they could launch a reboot with a new cast for Bosch's second act - god knows there is enough material around.

The spinoff show is already being shot, will be on Amazon’s IMDb TV service (content shows up in the Amazon Prime apps),

https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/bosch-imdb-tv-spin-off-show-release-date-cast-news

i found the last season mildly disappointing, too focused on revisiting old characters instead of presenting a compelling crime story.

I liked the final season well enough, though it seemed like they wrote the end first and then had to get there any way they could — a lot of stuff seemed telescoped or handwaved in the final couple of episodes. Not gonna be watching the spinoff. Might read more of the books now, though.

yah the season seemed rushed, especially the last couple of episodes.

Oh wow didn't know about the "spinoff" which sounds just like a phase 2 continuation of the series. All is well

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:

ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

Watching three shows with Lance Reddick as a cop boss right now, need to find him playing something else for a change of pace.

he was very funny in Corporate, playing a different role that is kind of a spoof of the part he usually plays

lol, at least he is believable as a tv police chief

I read many of the Michael Connelly Bosch novels years ago, but have been working my way through them again recently as audiobooks. I’m up through The Closers (2005), the 11th I think.

Listening to them in the middle of the night when I haven’t been able to sleep has been comforting. I’m always looking forward to the next book.

I haven’t seen the TV series yet and am not sure I want to at this point

Lol, I’m the opposite. Read only 1 of the books ages ago. The TV series is excellent (we’ll, at least thru S3).

It's pretty good, great cast and more than most cop shows (outside of CBS dramas) there's a discomfort you have to face in rooting for the kind of cop you'd probably really hate IRL because Titus Welliver is so charismatic.

Season 2
The security guard/bad guy mastermind was too oily and obviously the villain from his first appearance, six episodes before Bosch figures it out - can't decide if that was on purpose or if the actor overplayed it.

I already have such a mental picture of who Harry Bosch, Kizmin Ryder, Jerry Edgar, Irvin Irving, Terry McCaleb, Graciela Rivers, Buddy Lockridge, Jack McEvoy, Teresa Corazόn, Keisha Russell, Grace Billets etc etc are from the books

also Eleanor Wish and Rachel Walling

I was surprised when the S2 villain was revealed but I'm also kind of dumb

The TV show does a great job of wrapping up some story lines within a season while carrying other storylines - like the murder of Bosch’s mother - across seasons.

damn, Jamie Hector is 46.

Had no idea this was going to be out so soon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhGY8P8geiw

just going in on s7, 9 mins in and no crimes get on with it get on with it

less jazz more drive-bys

S7 was the weakest but still worth watching. As someone said earlier ITT, they kinda speed thru the S7 plot in order to wrap up a bunch of storylines. Several callbacks to characters from previous seasons. But still worth watching…

Well, watching once lol

Halfway through S5, it’s a slight letdown compared to 3 & 4. New Bosch series starts on IMDB TV lol next month?

kinda bored of lance riddick's shtick tbh, he's better than what he's bothering to give

"all units! intitiate! initiate!" dude just say "go! go!"

don't make me tap the use other words thread

Lol I forgot Lance Reddick was in this show. Dude plays such a similar role in Bosch, The Wire, Fringe... he just fits seamlessly and imperceptibly into any number of police-adjacent shows

bosch is being an ARSE HOLE at jerry atm imo

blimey

^^^ is what i just said out loud

love to call in a special master lol

Yeah Bosch is a self-righteous asshole at times and it sucks when it’s aimed a Jerry.

the incel plotline seems dumb to me

Very weird when Bosch's daughter and her friend meet the lawyer and start fangirl/boying out.

I've been reading the books and Bosch is also not that nice to his next partner Ignacio Ferras - The Overlook (2007), The Brass Verdict (2008), and Nine Dragons (2009)

Nine Dragons, focusing on his daughter in Hong Kong, is one of Connelly's more memorable stories

I quit around the time of The Crossing as they were getting a bit samey and daft, but I wonder if they got better again. Agree 9 Dragons was a fun one, very 80s action movie – also Angels Flight, the only one where he lets his writerly pretentions get ahead of him, doing a mini-Day of the Locust riff. It’s really good! Don’t watch the show as I don’t enjoy watching Welliver.

i kinda hate maddie tho she is a p plausible daughter of her dad i guess

I like that her introduction was “I haven’t seen my daughter since she was three, she’s good I guess IDK” and then it turns out she’s somehow exactly like her father. Strong genes.

you can tell by the size of his head

I'm really liking the Mickey Haller series (The Lincoln Lawyer, The Brass Verdict, The Reversal and The Fifth Witness so far). There is some overlap between Bosch and Haller in the novels, because *spoiler* we learn they are half brothers. Is he much of a figure in the streaming series?

No but the first season of The Lincoln Lawyer is dropping on Netflix in a couple of weeks

lol i just watched the final ep w/o realising it even was the final ep, thinking "oh this incel strand wound up strangely early"

(i was pretty sleepy, maybe i slept thru the highlights)

(this was last night, i'm watching it again to see what i missed)

(ok turns out i hadn't watched the last ep at all, netflix must have played it to the end while the screen was off)

lol it's a banger

anyway in conclusion, bosch is a DICK

hark... tis the sound of a new song singin... decent first ep tho

Hope you mean by that that they've changed the terrible theme song

unfortunately… no

ballard is not awful

Agree, they didn’t embarrass themselves

Prequel series details:

https://deadline.com/2025/10/bosch-start-of-watch-prequel-cameron-monaghan-omari-hardwick-1236584808/

1991, eh? That'll be...interesting.