Yes, my headline is strong and dares to challenge the highly rated and hallowed Breaking Bad series.
But I had to get the readers' attention and give it a high score because the Bosch TV series had a powerful and amazing effect on me and I suggest everyone checking these reviews should watch it.
I kept avoiding it for some reason and only recently decided to give the entire 2014-2021 seven-season series a go after enjoyably watching last year's 2022 spin-off Bosch Legacy.
Titus Welliver's stand-out performance as Harry Bosch is incredible, first class and quite a surprise from some of his earlier roles in Deadwood, Sons of Anarchy, a few Ben Affleck productions and an impressive list of other top shows. It seems Titus is often overlooked and not given due credit for his acting talent but his role in Bosch was a perfect fit for him and urged me to find out more about him.
In fact, on YouTube I saw an interesting story by Michael Connelly, the writer of Bosch (and many other great books), who explains why he chose Titus to play Harry Bosch and says after auditioning other top actors there was nobody else that became Harry so perfectly.
So, let's move on to the show itself. WOW!! What a varied experience of emotions we are given throughout the series, and who would expect a Cop/Detective show to entertain us so fully. Apart from the top class storyline and plot, and the wonderful wealth of characters, there is the addition of Harry's love for Jazz and the world class vintage songs by 1940's 1950's & sixties musicians like Miles Davis, Dizzie Gillespie, Art Pepper, Chet Baker, Paul Desmond, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, plus other songs by Los Lobos, Foo Fighters, Deftones, Chris Botti & Mark Knopfler - (whoever chose the songs for this show has amazing taste in music). This show is pure quality - cool, classy, deep, funny, sad, touching, and I could not get enough of it. It's actually filmed inside the real Las Angeles Police Department by the way and we also get a great look at the varied culture and suburban areas of L. A.
It has everything to keep the viewer entertained and satisfied. It's addictive, leaving us wanting more, and I never wanted it to end.
I cannot praise this show's production highly enough. Don't miss out on a riveting entertaining experience. My suggestion would be to watch the first 7 series first, before watching the recent one Bosch Legacy so that you can really get an understanding of how everything unfolds. I believe they are working on a second series of Bosch Legacy to air sometime this year which I can't wait for and am anticipating greatly.
In my opinion, the fact that Dick Wolf's NBC has been running Law & Order SVU for 24 seasons,CBS running NCIS for 20 seasons,CSI for 15 seasons,and Criminal Minds 16 seasons is crazy since these shows are nowhere near as good as Bosch which is run by Amazon Prime. I wonder why that is the situation?
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