TV #39 of 2025: Ballard, season 1 Bosch and Bosch: Legacy have both wrapped up after a combined ten seasons, but the franchise survives in the form of this latest entry, whose protagonist was introduced in the final episode of the latter series. She’s a detective working cold cases for the LAPD, and her new …
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TV Review: Bosch: Legacy, season 3
TV #19 of 2025: Bosch: Legacy, season 3 Bosch isn’t exactly a great TV show, but it goes out about as solidly competent a mid-tier crime drama as ever. Technically, of course, this isn’t even Bosch but its successor program Bosch: Legacy, although the distinction between the two has never been as clear-cut as I’d …
TV Review: Bosch: Legacy, season 2
TV #57 of 2023: Bosch: Legacy, season 2 I’m still mad that the first season of this Bosch spinoff sequel ended with — spoiler alert — its young female lead getting abducted from her home by the serial rapist she’d been investigating. It was a cruel cliffhanger and threatened fridging, and while I have no …
TV Review: Bosch: Legacy, season 1
TV #21 of 2022: Bosch: Legacy, season 1 Note: I have very negative feelings about the last few scenes and the cliffhanger ending to this season. To avoid spoilers, I won’t get into that here. But if you’re interested in my thoughts, you can find them in a Twitter thread at the following link: https://twitter.com/lesserjoke/status/1530415054990061568 …
TV Review: Bosch, season 7
TV #55 of 2021: Bosch, season 7 This final stretch of Bosch doesn’t immediately feel like a farewell tour, and I was initially underwhelmed by the seemingly low stakes of the central apartment building arson. But there’s an interesting subplot here of Billets struggling to pierce career protection and oust two bigot incels from among …
Book Review: Angels Flight by Michael Connelly
Book #102 of 2021: Angels Flight by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #6) This 1999 novel is interestingly (and depressingly) timely two decades on, as it plays out against a backdrop of police brutality and an ensuing race riot. Author Michael Connelly may have been drawing on the recent high-profile Rodney King and OJ Simpson cases, …
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Book Review: Trunk Music by Michael Connelly
Book #56 of 2021: Trunk Music by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #5) Like the other titles in its series, this is a reasonably solid procedural crime thriller — albeit a little heavy on coincidences, such as the protagonist encountering an old flame / new potential suspect while pursuing a lead in a different city or …
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Book Review: The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly
Book #209 of 2020: The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #3) This 1994 novel opens with detective Harry Bosch on trial for his shooting of an unarmed man four years ago, a civil complaint brought by the widow against the city. (The deceased was a suspected rapist and serial killer, and Bosch mistakenly …
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TV Review: Bosch, season 6
TV #16 of 2020: Bosch, season 6 Amazon’s middlebrow police procedural starts off strong this year, but seems to lose a little focus as it goes along. I think the news that only one more batch of episodes remains has also put pressure on the writers to wrap up several long-running subplots, resulting in a …
TV Review: Bosch, season 5
TV #18 of 2019: Bosch, season 5 The weird thing about Bosch — which can strike me as either brilliant or lazy storytelling depending on my mood — is that it regularly eschews all the rhythms of a typical TV show. There’s seldom any particular plot difficulty or thematic throughline tying a single hour together, …
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