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In all my years of reviewing television shows and movies, I’ve never written a review before getting at least most of it watched. My quick post about Longmire last month was written after watching the first five seasons in an attempt to prompt people to binge on it before the sixth season was released. Bosch will be the first show I reviewed before finishing the first season.
In fact, I’m only five episodes in.
I started binging last night. My standard binge schedule has me watching 1-3 episodes a night of a show. I started late so expected to make it through one or two. Five episodes later, the 2 a.m. call from the bed made me stop. Otherwise, I might still be watching now.
Right off the bat, this feels like The Wire. While not possessing the same grit or ensemble cast of characters, it’s clear this is going to be a straight-forward police procedural without the glamour associated with so many cop shows over the last decade. Detective work isn’t glamorous. It’s tedious and we get to feel that very quickly. Of course, the presence of two very notable actors from The Wire helped make the connection.
Fans of Luther will also see similarities. Both are centered around a cop who’s in trouble for questionable circumstances surrounding his treatment of a serial killer. Like Luther, some bosses hate Bosch but one or two like him. His unorthodox style is not appealing to everyone on the force.
Jason Gedrick’s role as the early antagonist does two things. It highlights how good Titus Welliver is as an actor because, unfortunately, Gedrick isn’t. However, Gedrick’s portrayal establishes an early theme for the show by showing that the bad guys aren’t always the brilliant criminal masterminds so many shows depict them as in modern television. Police work is hard enough when most criminals are dumb. How television props up criminals is unrealistic. Most of the time, they get caught because they were careless or really didn’t think things through. Shows today make it seem like criminals are so brilliant that only an equally brilliant protagonist has a chance of catching them.
There’s not much more I can say with only five episodes under my belt, but so far I’m hooked. I’ve gone through an episode or two of several crime dramas lately and none of them have sunk their hooks into me until now. This is my first venture into Amazon television land. If Bosch is an indicator, I may find I’ve been missing out on good stuff for a while.
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Jason Gedrick was brilliant in Bosch. In fact, he has never done a sloppy job and he is a very talented actor. Second, please stop putting other people down and calling it a review. This is not a review, let alone a good one, it’s an essay about your insecurities and bitterness. You don’t love movies, you don’t love people, you don’t love writing, you clearly don’t love reading, you don’t love yourself. Please please go do something you actually love.