Bosch is an unsmiling cop who doesn't always obey the rules but he has integrity. He has a corrupt boss who is out to end his career, and a female boss who is sympathetic but can't always help him. An irresponsible journalist is happy to use him as fodder for his stories and doesn't care who he hurts. The District Attorneys and police officials cops are all cold and cynical and only care about how events will affect their own careers. Bosch is an absent father who misses his daughter but instead of doing something about it finds it easier to bury himself in the job. He's a veteran who was wounded in the wars. The killer he's chasing feels that he and Bosch have a special relationship. Season One contains so many tropes that they are tripping over each other. And then there are the howlers, like where his home has a view a multi-millionaire would envy. I wonder how many of these crappy details are in the novels, because they are tiresome, tiresome, tiresome. The show is worth watching, but for this to be one of the few productions that Amazon is willing to mount is kind of sad. You would think it would be something special, but it's only good in a rather pedestrian way, and sometimes it lands so heavily on a cliché that it almost feels like a parody of a cop drama.
Bosch
(2014–2021)
Not bad but painfully hits all the tiresome clichés of the honest cop drama
22 February 2015