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

Season 5 premiere tonight!

In the meantime:
All the LA Bars and Restaurants Featured in Modern Noir Cop Show Bosch
https://la.eater.com/maps/bosch-amazon-prime-show-restaurants-bars-film-locations

yes! gonna crank this season out over the next week for sure.

Bosch really gets in some trouble this time around

im about halfway through s5

had to go back in this thread and check to make sure I didn't already post about how every season combines plots and characters from multiple books, which are also good.

this show rules, only have watched first episode of season 5 but first 4 all solid, love the location shooting too (rip Smog Cutter)

Just finished the new season. Really good.

was drinking some groundwork when i watched ep1. also an ND law mug. so many ties.

Still not sure what exactly was the purpose of the plane expeditions

Yeah, the whole scheme seemed like a lot of work for relatively little reward.

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2019 season is nominated in the 2019 ILX TV poll:

ILX's Best Television of 2019 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends January 31

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 (4 minimum, 25 maximum, organized by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail by end of day today. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

https://deadline.com/2020/02/bosch-renewed-7th-final-season-amazon-1202859488/

7th season will be the last

perfect

Those words you have wanted to hear: Bosch season 6 trailer
https://youtu.be/bTGPN0Ugt8A

excellent!

looks corny as hell, gonna be great

season 6 is out. 2 eps in. bosch looks a little more ripped than past seasons is my only takeaway so far.

This is the Overlook, right? Connelly’s wannabe 24 novella that was serialised in the nyt. (Its good, though.)

Bosch is back, baby!

I feel like all the seasons have been contemporaneous in recent memory for me, but the fact the daughter character is somehow an adult now is jarring

But I mean, the pilot came out in early 2014 and it’s now 2020, so...

i like that there's 2nd-tier cast character-typology overlap with brooklyn 99

Eight episodes in. I like the b-plots with the Haitian underworld and Maddie/Honey Chandler, but I'm really missing the Nickel Diner downtown.

is the Los Angles Ace Hotel the new Mondrian or Standard or w/e when it comes to "semi-famous and some shit's going down here" now?

bosch is such a judgmental dick

bosch is good, i liked it when he quietly radiated conviction so hard his daughter became a fascist too

i enjoyed the last season even if half of it was just wrapping up loose threads from the previous season. i feel like in the middle seasons they started to move slightly away from the COPS ARE ALWAYS RIGHT AND ANYONE WHO GETS IN THEIR WAY IS EVIL philosophy, but they really circled back to it in the end. i loved maddie and honey chandler continuously having to explain the basics of the u.s. justice system to bosch. why would criminals need defense attorneys? need i remind you that COPS ARE ALWAYS RIGHT AND ANYONE WHO GETS IN THEIR WAY IS EVIL. also wasn't crazy about them making j. edgar a proponent of vigilante justice at the very last minute.

also wasn't crazy about them making j. edgar a proponent of vigilante justice at the very last minute.

lol I got kinda teary-eyed at that tbh -- like, wishing for him to say, "you want things to be one way, but it's the other way"

someone in the S7 trailer mentions stringer bell. very disrespectful to pull that shit with jamie hector imo!!

last season comes out friday :(

Just started S07E04 and I think I'm binging the whole season today.

3 episodes in and liking it. The person I thought was gonna be the Big Bad is...not. Curious how the B-plot is gonna tie in, too.

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

he's very watchable but it's kind of a recessive minimalism with the other more expressive characters as foils: i can easily see it getting tiresome when he does everyone else and the narration

Bosch going full on Jack Bauer (sort of) out of nowhere not a great shift for the series

yeah this series is dumb and bad

did we already know he was a vet? i dont remember anything abt it on the show (i haven't read the books)

yeah that’s why I qualified slightly
They did reference his special forces background in Iraq and Afghanistan (how he took out the S3 baddie and how he was a credible vet junkie in S6) but still …..

Sad to hear this isn’t good. Not even sure I’m gonna give it a shot. Might just leave things be and enjoy my mems of the og series.

I think the loss of the great supporting cast is what hurts it the most + really can’t stand that phoney “jazz cat” Mo (urgh)

In the earlier iteration of the show I’d hope the goes Bauer scene would be a set-up for reflecting on what his time in special ops did for his sense of why he became a cop, why being a PI is a better fit for his moral crusade, but that bit about red tape or whatever and Maddie pondering what it means to be a “good cop” in just about every scene, in parallel with Chandler basically being cool with having a guy murdered despite having some bad dreams…sigh

His military background is all over the original series.

lol is it? lucky for me there isn't a test i guess

the dumbest thing for me in this season is how utterly pointless and perfunctory the J Edgar cameo is. The Crate and Barrel scenes at least had a tiny bit of the old flair.

Watched the first one last night, it's hard to pin down exactly what's wrong - everything's just a bit off. When Bosch is talking to the coroner buddy, his manner is wrong and there's this real ugly shot and reverse at the end. Bosch was always AMC basic cable but this is more USA Network.

Maddie is... not a good actor?

She should have gone to law school and the show picks up with her just passing the bar and working as a lawyer under Mimi Rogers, that's more believable than cop.

Early USA Network at that

Yeah she basically has a few modes and they are not suited to expressing very much (although I guess I’m holding out hope that her main mode, the indignant one, will strengthen her arc as it currently just feels like an awkward fit which could be fun to explore)

many xps

the very first Bosch book, Black Echo (1992), was about his flashbacks from his days as an infantryman in Viet Nam clearing enemy tunnel complexes

Dan S, yeah, the time shift from the novels to the tv show (and the desire to have Bosch be more virile, as opposed to elderly) made him a post-9/11 soldier in the middle east ... as opposed to a Vietnam vet, in a less elite unit and ... actually, I forget whether he enlisted or was drafted? The switch in military background (from Nam to Bush 2 Crusade) was something that always was a little cringeworthy for me in the series, (along with Maddie's acting, and the amount of screentime she was given) even though, more than most book-to-TV series, the original Bosch was really faithful and a good adaptation of the books.

Bosch’s hepcat helper is pretty rough going.

I keep pretending he's the Nightlife character from the Achewood comics

it's very unkind to suggest that he's fedora guy but he kind of is fedora guy

I like his rookie partner, Lucia Soto, who first appears in The Burning Room

I keep pretending he's the Nightlife character from the Achewood comics

I don't know anything about Achewood but holy shit that is spot on.

https://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=06202003

Bosch and Nightlife trading jazz names is even more awkward than Crate and Barrel starting to Remember Some Movies And Movie Guys around season 4.

Art Pepper, man…

Titus Welliver's narration of The Burning Room has put me to sleep more than once over the last week and a half, but I finally finished it and am warming to him slightly as a narrator

It's nice to see Bosch, Honey, even Maddie again... but yeah, this season felt really off. They had like six different storylines that would usually be given to six different characters but with the tiny cast, the mains each got 2 or 3 different stories. very weird to have what seemed like the A-story (Bratva) abruptly wrap up mid-season. the Bosch vs. the assassin stuff was terrible, so out-of-place for this show. theme song and incidental music were also noticeably bad

I don't think the show has the budget to actually film his house sliding down the hill

No, but they tried their best with that terrible oil plant explosion shot

maybe I'm picking on it too much though. I would watch another season, it had enough Bosch essence for me

any one else watch the Lincoln Lawyer series?

Yeah, I watched it. It was supposed to be a network show orginally, I think, and it definitely had that feel. But it wasn't terrible.

Have watched 7 seasons of the OG show over the last few months and had a total blast. Agree that S7 was rushed and a bit of a mess but enjoyed a snarling Bosch handing over his badge at the end. Like a few others have said, I desperately wanted to see more of Bosch (and Captain Reddick) in action but the overriding tone of interactions in the whole show is suppressed rage so it figures.

Things:
- like mark s, I frequently found myself saying 'but he doesn't ever *listen* to Coltrane!
- did Bosch ever sleep in a bed in the whole show?
- I have been learning to move like Jimmy Santiago and
- if there's a spin-off, I'd watch Jimmy just sitting on a bar stool
- where does Edgar by his shirts?

Wait, Santiago Robertson, obvs.

I know it's happening in multiple places but goddamn Irv :(

https://uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/lance-bosch.gif

Normally a new season of Bosch was timed well enough to come out when I was dissatisfied with much of what I've been watching. Not sure if I trust season 2 of Legacy.

The Bosch Legacy theme song is even worse than the plot of the first two episodes of Season 2.

I'm really put off by the continual Maddie-in-danger plots. Straight-up women in refrigerators shit.

Actually thought this new season was not bad. Maddie-in-danger story wraps up fast and most of the season is a separate story with some surprises. Theme music is still awful, no fixing that