Bosch Season 1 2014

     This series is based on novels written by Michael Connelly.  Bosch is a LAPD homicide detective.  He begins working on the solving of a crime in the LA hills.  The bones of a thirteen-year-old boy were dug up by a neighborhood dog.  LAPD will use DNA to try to locate his family and determine what happened to him.  The LAPD forensic scientist is brought in to find out what the bones can tell him.  The boy is Raynard Waits and they learn his sister still lives in the family home.  They contact his father and the sister.  His mother divorced his father and she has been estranged from the family.  She moved to out of California.  Complicating matters, Bosch is on trial for the murder of a suspect he was tailing?  His partner stayed in the police car but Bosch followed the suspect on foot.  If this wasn't complicated enough, Bosch is getting cell phone calls from an on the loose serial killer.  LAPD is also trying to solve this case.

     Every minute you don't know what is going to happen in this series.  I was surprised that Bosch was brought before a judge over his handling of the suspect he followed.  A LOT of information was taken from the bones of the young boy.  Keeping track of the serial killer and handling his murders is tough.  Receiving phone calls from him makes it worse!!  Bosch is divorced from his wife, she lives in Nevada and she has remarried.  Bosch has a teen age daughter Maddie and she lives with her mother.  4* (I really liked this series)

 

TV series, each episode 51 minutes, 8 episodes created by Eric Ellis Overmer and Michael Connelly with Titus Welliver, Jamie Hector, Amy Aquino, Lance Reddick, Gregory Scott Cummins, DaJuan Johnson, Scott Klace Deji La Ray.

 

Note:  Imdb 8.4 out of 10 with 35,771 , Rotten Tomatoes 83% critic 90% audience, Metacritic 71 out of 100 with 17 critics (14 positive, 3 mixed) 8.2 out of 10 with 109 user scores (91 positive, mixed 14, negative 4), Amazon 4.6 out of 5* with 101,326 ratings, ign.com 4* out of 5* Matt Fowler.

Special Note:  Filmed in In Los Angeles, California.  Some of the filming was done inside the LAPD Hollywood Station (1358 Wilcox Avenue).  The scenes were done late in the day after most of the detectives had left.  Various off-duty police volunteered their time to play extras.  Bosch has prints hanging on his wall based on fictional films of the Harry Bosch books.  Bosch's partner Jerry Edgar is depicted as having something of a clothes fetish and this is the opposite of Bosch.  He is heavily into designer fashion.  In reality, Jamie Hector has his own fashion label called "Royal Addiction".  The name Bosch is from a fifteenth century Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch.  The last name in Dutch would be pronounced more like Box and not with a prolonged schh sound.