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Bosch: Legacy is just as good as the original Bosch. Much like the original, it's one of the best, most underrated crime dramas on tv. The writing and acting is what makes this show so special It's hard to find anyone who's ever said anything bad to say about it. Bosch: Legacy continues to follow Harry Bosch, who has now quit his job as a homicide detective and become a personal investigator, as he moved on to the next chapter of his life. His daughter, Maddy, is now a rookie on the police force. Bosch now works with his ex-nemesis, Honey Chandler. Titus Welliver is absolutely perfect as Harry Bosch. If you liked the original Bosch and you haven't seen this yet then what are you waiting for? Go watch this as soon as possible!

I'm so glad that we get to continue the story of Harry Bosch. Bosch is easily one of the most underrated shows ever. I don't know anyone who's seen it that has anything bad to say about it. All you have to do is read through the reviews and ratings to see how loved that show was so it was a no brainer to bring it back for more. They know how much people love this that they renewed it before even one episode aired. Being a huge Bosch fan I had huge expectations going into this and this show not only met those expectations but surpassed them in every way. If Bosch: Legacy ends up half as good as the original Bosch it will still be a great show and so far it's been great! I can't wait to see more!

This is good where Bosch was great. Titus Welliver is good, but like a lot of the reveiws posted, Ms Linz is not the best and even less convincing as an LA Police Officer. Not to point out as I am not sure the LA police would allow two uniformed female police officers out on patrol, with one in training. Watching her take down grown men is just laughable, taking into account her very slight frame.

It's a shame they couldn't use the Lincoln Lawyer (MIck Haller) character, there would've been a lot to explore there, regarding them being paternal siblings, and on opposite sides of the legal fence. Thus not having to rely on the Maddie cop and Honey Chandler timeline.

Aside from these quibles, I gave Bosch:Legacy a solid 6-7, not quite as good as the original, but better than avarage, primarily due to Titus Welliver.

Big Bosch fan. I want atleast 3-4 more series.

I am a huge fan of Titus and this detective serie. Right now enjoying the legacy but can't get enough. Please make more series. Characters are credible and actors play great roles. Bosch, maddy etc. I recommend this serie to all the detective lovers.

Bosch is back with all his bolshy, Boschy Boschiness!

A new role as a PI makes sense drawing on his 27 years as a cop, with Maddie following in his footsteps as a rookie at LAPD. Madison Lintz has developed immensely as an actress during her tenure on Bosch and plays the part of police trainee and daughter admirably.

The main thrust of season one is finding the long lost love and potential heir of an ultra rich man, despite the objections of others. Bosch also enters an unlikely partnership with Honey Chandler as they try to close out on Carl Rogers.

An excellent series with a welcome change of pace and scenario allowing more stories to develop without becoming stale or burdened with baggage.

I binged the Bosch series and before watching Bosch: Legacy I read the reviews and almost didn't watch it because of them.... AND commercials.

I took a chance and started watching and I was wrapped up in it immediately.

Some reviews said poor writing... I was rivetted and thought the storyline was constantly engaging the viewer.

Some reviews said how awful the actress who plays Maddie was. She wasn't any different then she was in the Bosch series and I never found her acting horrific.

The series is very well done and can't wait for season 2 :)

The show is solid with strong familiar characters. It's not the same as the gritty cop drama that was the original Bosch, but it is developing nicel and I have high hopes that it will develop into an 8 or 9. But so far after 3 episodes it's a strong 7. Which is high praise as most of the stuff on TV is barely worthy of a 4 or 5. For me it loses a point because the intro music is horrendous. Like someone should be fired horrendous. They needed to replicate the dark jazzy intro from the original, not use some odd 1980's Miami Vice soundtrack reject. Bosch was one of the only show where I did not click "skip intro". I won't make that mistake with Bosch Legacy. Blech.

A police and crime drama enthusiast's wet dream. For fans of classic Noir as well as every other excellent legal drama produced since those heady days (Miami Vice not included). Filled with intrigue, action, wit, humor, and every other emotion, this new series continues the magic the original series gave us. Big fan of films shot in L. A. here--because I was raised in Hollywood. So I know the layout and the kinds of people who make that city tick. Tough, tough-minded, and never backing down.

What's happened to the magnificent soundtrack, replaced with yet another piece of ghastly generic noise. Turn the sound down and play 'can't let go', this show deserves a good introduction.

I am a big Bosch fan, but the Legacy sequel series is a couple of notches below the original. First, J. Edgar the interesting supporting characters from the original only make cameo appearances in Legacy. The exception being two of the least interesting characters from the original, Honey and Maddie. Honey is a fabulously wealthy ambulance-chasing lawyer who seems to have developed a heart of gold through the television years. Maddie has become a bizarre component of every plot. Despite her slight physique she runs down bad guys and manhandles them. Though she also becomes a super-victim damsel in distress at times. Bosch himself is now a private investigator but strangers accord him the respect of a cop and always spill lots of information for him. An unfortunate addition to the series is one of these Mission Impossible tech gurus whose skills border on magic rather than what is technically possible. Sorry to bash away here but I enjoyed the original series and it did not jump the shark for me. I will keep watching if there is a season 3 of Legacy but my hopes and anticipation have been tempered.

(Review updated after Season 2).

Having resigned from the LAPD Harry Bosch is now a private investigator. Business has been quite slow but some decent cases are starting to come his way. He soon finds himself working with Honey Chandler, once his nemesis then his career-saving attorney. Meanwhile his daughter Maddie is learning the ropes as a police officer.

I loved the original Bosch series so was initially a bit disappointed with this series. Things moved quite slowly and disjointedly and the engagement levels were fairly low. One of the best aspects to the original series was the police procedural stuff and that isn't present here, well not to the same degree. There is very little of the police stuff and the only link to that is Maddie, the rookie cop. That was initially the worst part of the new series as she seems not cut out to be a cop.

There's also less variety of characters than the original series. Another great thing about that series was that Harry wasn't the only character in the spotlight or worth supporting, there were people like Jerry, Lt. Billets, Chief Irving, Crate and Barrell, Maddie, Eleanor and the host of secondary characters who, through great character development in the show, we got to know well.

Here, it's just about Harry, Maddie and Honey Chandler, making for a narrow focus.

It also didn't help that I watched this straight after watching all seven seasons of Bosch, making comparison unavoidable. A decent gap would have made it easier to view this series in isolation.

However, after a few episodes things start to fall into place. A few good mysteries and plots develop, the intrigue and action ramps and things get much more engaging. Even Maddie's sub-plot gets more interesting as we see the stuff she has to deal with a cop, how this affects her and how this overlaps with Harry and Honey Chandler's work. It makes for an engaging character arc.

Season 2 picks up where S1 left off and provides heaps of intrigue and action. It also brings Maddie more to the fore, making it feel less of a one-man band sort of show. "Mo" Bassi also gets to feature more, further broadening the characters and the engagement. On the downside, there's a few more contrivances than normal - Episode 2 felt particularly rushed and implausible - but it's still fantastically entertaining.

Season 3 was promoted as the final season, making me worry that the writers would just phone it in. Thankfully I was very mistaken. Rather than coasting the writers crammed about three seasons worth of plots into one season making for an incredible pace and turnover of cases. This was great as there was never a dull moment though I would have preferred some slower periods just to increase the intrigue and tension rather than rushing to the conclusion.

Overall, this series isn't quite as good as the original - I still prefer the police procedural stuff and multi-character aspect of that - but being of the same level of quality as the original was always going to be difficult to achieve, that being one of the greatest TV drama series of all time.

Season ratings: S1&2: 9/10, S3 9.5.

I looooved the original series. Titus Welliver is a stellar actor and the supporting players, storylines, writing made it perfect in every way. Bosch Legacy? Not so much. I liked Bosch better as a cop than a P. I. I liked Meddie better when she was contemplating law than as a "boot". The rookie thing has been done to death, as well as the "buried alive" thing. I liked Honey better as an adversary than as Bosch's "friend". I miss Edgar, Crate and Barrel, Grace ..... I'm trying but I've been stuck on Season2, Episode 3 for weeks and I can't get past it. I'm bored...and I hate that I'm bored. Don't know if I'll make it to the end, but if Season 3 is coming, please: Let Maddie quit the force; Let Bosch rejoin the force; Bring back the old crew. (Rest in power, Lance Reddick! 😢)

Out of sheer loyalty to the original Bosch series-an outstanding, gritty, character-driven procedural-I forced myself through Season 3 of Bosch: Legacy. And I do mean forced. It's like watching a once-legendary detective get wheeled out and paraded around in a series that no longer understands or respects its own foundation.

Harry Bosch, once the moral compass and hardened soul of LA's justice system, has now been relegated to a supporting act in his own show-reduced to a hollow, mumbling version of himself. Instead, we're subjected to the sanctimonious adventures of Maddie Bosch: a walking TED Talk in uniform who delivers every line like she's reading a handbook on how to be perfectly insufferable. Her "virtue" is so overplayed it borders on parody. I didn't realise Bosch: Legacy was Maddie's world and we were just painfully orbiting it.

The main plot-if you can call it that-is strangled by bloated side characters and filler storylines that seem to exist solely to tick boxes and shove a few more hollow messages down your throat. What once was a series known for tight, intelligent storytelling has been diluted into a meandering soapbox for Hollywood's latest moral preoccupations.

The worst part? I'm actually relieved it's ending. Bosch deserves better, and frankly, so do the fans. If you're thinking of diving into the Bosch universe, do yourself a favour: watch the original series and stop there. Pretend Legacy never happened. That's the only way to honour the character we once knew.

It's getting a bit tiring that Bosch runs to a hacker to solve his problems every time and this hacker being able to hack pretty much anything. This is completely unrealistic. What's also unrealistic is how he does it.

In 2023 writers should be acutely aware of technology and how things really work OR hire a consultant to review the script.

This is just very lazy writing - a cop out (pun intended).

I wish this show went a bit more out their stiff direction also. The direction and cinematography feels formulaic, just supporting the story and no room for creativity. The acting from the daughter of Bosch as well as Chandler shows a limited palette. Are these actors allowed and incentivized to put in more humanity? Show the rough edges?

Luckily we see Bosch a bit more emotional in the early episodes of season 2.

A sequel to the seven-season "Bosch" series, it's a police procedural set in the 2020s in Los Angeles, California, and follows three main characters and a bunch of secondary characters.

Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) is a retired LAPD detective now working as a private investigator. His daughter, Maddie (Madison Lintz), is a rookie (boot) police officer working with Reyna Vasquez (Denise G. Sanchez), her training officer. Both of them have worked in the past with high-profile lawyer Honey Chandler (Mimi Rogers), who plays a major role in this season. A prominent secondary character is Mo Bassi (Stephen Chang), brilliant tech support for Harry Bosch.

As in other seasons, there are multiple storylines. The primary thread deals with an elderly terminally-ill tech billionaire, Whitney Vance (William Devane), who wants to find a long-lost son and hires Bosch to find him. The people currently running the company don't wish Bosch to find an heir. Another storyline concerns Carl Rogers (Michael Rose), a crooked businessman with links to the Russian Mafia, who was behind the shooting of Honey Chandler at the end of season 7 of "Bosch." Other storylines involve a shooting of a female police officer, planted evidence, and a serial daytime rapist.

I love the Connelly novels and really liked the first "Bosch" series. "Bosch: Legacy" continues to be high quality, though there are more standard chase scenes and less careful detecting than would be possible. But Welliver has come to define Bosch. Lintz's character comes through with satisfactory police procedure. Mimi Rogers works well as a significant character, though it would be nice to see Bosch's half-brother, the Lincoln Lawyer, involved sometime.

I've loved all previous series of Bosh and even the first series of Legacy but my enthusiasm for the show has waned somewhat since it began to feature more of miserable Maddie. Charismatic she ain't and every time she appears in an episode it completely kills the pacing.

She's been a cop all of five minutes yet she struts around like a seasoned veteran, showing the kind of policing instincts that only come from experience. Even if you allow for the fact she's the daughter of a legendary detective it's still a bit of a stretch.

I'm fairly certain that the plan was to hand the baton onto her completely but, as it became obvious she doesn't have the necessary presence to carry the show on her own, the decision was made to cancel it. It's sad really but we live in age now where the prevailing attitude seems to be: 'why have a man in the lead role when we could have a less believable female lead?'

If you were a fan of Bosch you will be a fan of this, plain and simple. Stephen Chang is a seamless addition to ensemble. All the characters are changing gears as the show moves forward and from the first four episodes it is working for me.

Delivers in every way and if you're a Bosch fan, it is unmissable ... I love that it picks up from where it left off and they haven't tried a completely weird spinoff . Titus Welliver will forever be known as Harry Bosch for delivering this character so convincingly and in such entirety. More please and much much more ...

It is really refreshing to see that some reboots are actually good. Hope is not lost.

In this iteration of Bosch there are slight differences than the older version:

• Only a couple or three cases (the older version had so much happening)
• Less characters. They introduced one or two new ones like that excellent "IT/hacker" guy, and Mady's cop friends, and done it so well.

• Better editing, dialogue, and sound. I think this version is made in such a way to appeal to the masses.

All this makes the new show very easy to digest and I love it.

The only disappointment is that the new theme intro is not as good as the old one; "Can't Let Go" IMHO, and that we don't see his cool apartment, at least not for a while.

Glad they featured Michael Kiwanuka's song in episode 1.

Read every Bosch book, actually every Michael Connolly book. Love the Bosch series most of all and have enjoyed the tv series too. My only gripe is what they have done to maddie. In the books she's a good character. In the tv series they have made her a holier than thou little madam. She stops talking to her dad because he killed someone in Vietnam, he says I love you on the phone and she just hangs up. Why are they making her a character you want to hate? Ratings? Anyway, it's not good writing and being a producer, Michael should have stopped this stuff. The actress is decent but making her like this is just terrible. Other than that I love the show.

I'm only one episode in and I'll say so far so good. I'm not sure of the purpose of making this a brand new show instead of just making it the next season of the original Bosch. But I was a big fan of the original so of course I'm going to check this out.

Only 2 complaints. Wtf is up with the intro music. The original was great and made it very noir and fit the show since Bosch loved jazz. Also I don't buy Maddie as a street cop at all. I think she would have been better suited for the DA's office even if you had to jump forward in time to bypass law school.

Update: I bailed. It's not the same show. Loved the original but not this.

Potential minor spoilers, but not significant to the plot.

Like most, I was anxiously waiting to see what awaited Bosch in his new role as a P. I. however, after watching, I see that his badge isn't the only thing that's been lost from the original series.

The cinematography - what happened? This series looks like it was filmed by students not Hollywood professionals.

The acting - aside from Bosch it seems very contrived. Even Mimi Rogers doesn't seem as though she's on her game. Rushed production, limited takes?

The profanity - where did this come from? There's gratuitous profanity from all the characters, did someone forget we already know these characters? I have nothing against colorful language, but it detracts from the characters we know and feels inappropriate.

I've only watched the first two episodes, but could tell within the first few minutes that the budget for Legacy must be a fraction of what it was for Bosch. When Bosch was inspecting his house after the earthquake, I knew right away they were doing it an effort to keep location costs down. What a shame.

I'll still watch the rest of the series, but with the hope that it gets back on track and is given the budget it deserves.

It's everything Bosch has always been, but I thought we had a "feeling that we can't let go", where is it, what's up with that? Who is responsible for letting it go? I do not approve of the new intro, literally unwatchable, 0/10.

Edit: Now that season 1 has finished, I have to say I liked the first half more than the second half.