maddie getting a v hard time from all the non-baby cops is funny and she deserves it bcz she annoys me
― mark s, Friday, 6 May 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
ambushed by unexpected jackie chiles lol
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/EvenPepperyIbisbill-size_restricted.gif
― mark s, Friday, 6 May 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
me chuckling at this spry* and toned character meant to be 90+
checking the actor: william devane, a pretty spry and toned 82 tbf (son of FDR's chauffeur, played robert kennedy in macbird in 1966)
*i mean yes he's in a wheelchair
― mark s, Friday, 6 May 2022 20:25 (one year ago) link
(i am the only ilxor who's ever mentioned or maybe even thought abt macbird, a very forgotten item i imagine, which is nevertheless oddly important to me)
(nothing to do with BOSCH tho)
― mark s, Friday, 6 May 2022 20:28 (one year ago) link
ok, started the first episode of the new seriesI’m thinking “hmm, ok I can deal with this” so far, but then the credits hit and wtf is this theme song
― mh, Sunday, 8 May 2022 02:46 (one year ago) link
yeah the title sequence visually is a decent successor to the orig but the music is a hard miss4 episodes in this just feels like a more or less natural S8 vs a reboot S1not bad, still waiting to see where it goes as a resident just love the location shooting, always on point, Maddie running around the Hollywood Reservoir just makes me think of my own jaunts around there
― buzza, Sunday, 8 May 2022 09:32 (one year ago) link
his fedora-guy sidekick isnt doing it for me, where is cheech marin when u need him
― mark s, Sunday, 8 May 2022 10:16 (one year ago) link
idk i kinda like his vibe but he is a bit "low energy"
― buzza, Sunday, 8 May 2022 10:39 (one year ago) link
i'm only two in maybe i'll warm to him, he seems a bit pre-formed
― mark s, Sunday, 8 May 2022 10:43 (one year ago) link
he rings sort of true in a weird la way to me
― buzza, Sunday, 8 May 2022 10:52 (one year ago) link
haha that could also be entirely true
― mark s, Sunday, 8 May 2022 10:58 (one year ago) link
William Devane! One of the first 'character' actors who ever made an impression on me as the villain in Hitchcock's Family Plot, which I saw at the cinema when I was ten or so. Great to hear he's still working.
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 8 May 2022 11:37 (one year ago) link
he's looking great for 82!
― mark s, Sunday, 8 May 2022 11:46 (one year ago) link
we get a little crate and barrel cameo in s4, as a treat
― mh, Sunday, 8 May 2022 15:02 (one year ago) link
the credit sequences sucks as badly the as the song, the old one was so good :(
― mark s, Sunday, 8 May 2022 15:31 (one year ago) link
lol at maddie actuallying her dad on latin pronunciation, yeah, neither of you are close
― mark s, Sunday, 8 May 2022 16:34 (one year ago) link
Bosch starting to lecture Jerry on going too far… c’mon, man
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 8 May 2022 20:51 (one year ago) link
*rescreening* S7 now because i don't remember anything about the new season bad guy and his connection to the failed hit on Money Chandler. Streaming/binging habits are bad for short term memories. Also, William Devane post-Kennedy career to me is his turn on 24 as Sec of Defense/POTUS/Dementia patient, 24 is also the last series i went this deep into late seasons. hmmmmmm.....
― buzza, Monday, 9 May 2022 07:57 (one year ago) link
he's pretty shadowy in s7!
― mark s, Monday, 9 May 2022 08:07 (one year ago) link
they recast the role of Rogers for this season, that's part of the wtf (actually it's just me and my senility)
― buzza, Monday, 9 May 2022 09:50 (one year ago) link
Watching the S7 recap at the start of "Legacy". There are characters called Franzen, Chandler and... Carl Rogers?
"Carl Rogers, you're under arrest", an actual line of dialogue
https://www.oshonews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Carl-Rogers.jpg
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 9 May 2022 23:45 (one year ago) link
I'm reading Connelly's second Jack McEvoy novel The Scarecrow (2009) right now. The first was The Poet (1996), one of Connelly's most memorable books. He has said he doesn't love delving into McEvoy because "he is easily the most autobiographical character I have ever written about"
― Dan S, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 00:01 (one year ago) link
McEvoy is an investigative journalist and also appears in the Bosch/McCaleb novel A Darkness More Than Night (2001) and along with Bosch in the Mickey Haller novel The Brass Verdict (2008). Connelly also wrote a third novel featuring him in Fair Warning (2020), which I haven't read yet
― Dan S, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 00:36 (one year ago) link
lol finished rewatching s7 and i still don't really understand the underpinning of the new season plot but i'll just assume it's a The Big Sleep thing here it's best not to try to make the puzzle make sense and just enjoy the ride
― buzza, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 09:24 (one year ago) link
it does feel big-sleepy! needs more orchids in a hothouse to make bosch sweat uneasily
― mark s, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 09:29 (one year ago) link
i'd love more flirty scenes a la Dorothy Malone's bookstore clerk and the horny female cab driver but Bosch is way too leathery and stolid to pull that off. that's why i would love a Santiago spinoff with him and the punky bartender getting some real screentime.
― buzza, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 09:36 (one year ago) link
has there ever been a good or interesting take on the russian gangster as the new mafia concept ?
(this version is bad and boring) (og law and order had some entertaining characters now and then i guess in the 00s, this doesn't have that either)
― mark s, Friday, 13 May 2022 17:55 (one year ago) link
the procedural drama in the o/g series was hardly sparkling or boldly original but legacy REALLY misses it: hours of the newly minted PI and his high-end lawyer foe-chum tippytoeing round warehouses and whatnot to catch the crims at it is NO SUBSTITUTE AT ALL
also where is maddy this ep, i dont even love her sections but
― mark s, Sunday, 15 May 2022 14:05 (one year ago) link
Watched the first episode and it definitely feels like a cheap knockoff of the original. Don't give a fuck about Maddie's police training; there's already a whole procedural about that on network tv — it's called The Rookie and it's dull as shit, too. Bosch without a badge is just an old crank, and honestly I don't think the show has the budget to actually film his house sliding down the hill by season's end so I suspect that's just a distraction. Willam Devane in his wheelchair looks kind of amazingly like John McCain.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 15 May 2022 14:12 (one year ago) link
lol baby bosch is in this flashback ep and he's a belligerent prick
(good casting tho tbh)
― mark s, Friday, 20 May 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
show frantic to have it both ways re bad-apple cops and not in a deft or an interesting way really
― mark s, Friday, 20 May 2022 17:42 (one year ago) link
So if enjoyed Bosch non-legacy version but don't really care about the Bosch extended universe, should I put legacy in my viewing queue? most comments ITT are on the negative side...
― that's not my post, Friday, 20 May 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
not really feeling it adds anything tbh
i will watch the series out probably bcz who wants to be left hanging but
― mark s, Friday, 20 May 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
its bad and the theme song is bad
― adam, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:02 (one year ago) link
ima still watch it tho
TY. Think I’ll spend my limited TV time elsewhere and enjoy the memories from the original series.
― that's not my post, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:54 (one year ago) link
watching bosch: legacy sandwiched between la reina del sur s2 and better call saul (with ulvede on the news) is not doing bosch: legacy any favours at all
― mark s, Friday, 27 May 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link
i mean uvalde
― mark s, Friday, 27 May 2022 21:07 (one year ago) link
wow waterboarder war criminal bosch flashback was unexpected, so many bad decisions in this show
― adam, Saturday, 28 May 2022 01:42 (one year ago) link
Haven't watched the streaming show yet, but I've been listening to the books in order and have gotten up to the 17th Harry Bosch novel, The Burning Room.
It is the first one read by Titus Welliver. I don't know how he is as an actor, maybe ok, but as a narrator he is an incredible bore. It really puts a damper on the whole series
― Dan S, Saturday, 28 May 2022 02:48 (one year ago) link
I want to like the remaining 7 novels. It's a reminder to me how important the narrator is with audiobooks
― Dan S, Saturday, 28 May 2022 02:58 (one year ago) link
xpost I really liked Welliver as Bosch in the TV series.
― that's not my post, Saturday, 28 May 2022 03:25 (one year ago) link
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
― mark s, Sunday, 29 May 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
Bosch going full on Jack Bauer (sort of) out of nowhere not a great shift for the series
― buzza, Sunday, 29 May 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
yeah this series is dumb and bad
― mark s, Sunday, 29 May 2022 17:46 (one year ago) link
did we already know he was a vet? i dont remember anything abt it on the show (i haven't read the books)
― mark s, Sunday, 29 May 2022 17:48 (one year ago) link
yeah that’s why I qualified slightlyThey 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 …..
― buzza, Sunday, 29 May 2022 17:51 (one year ago) link
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.
― Spottie, Sunday, 29 May 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
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)
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Sunday, 29 May 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
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
― KPH, Sunday, 29 May 2022 18:04 (one year ago) link