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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!

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 :)

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.

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.

(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.

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. It's still excellent though and I'll definitely be back for Season 3.

Season ratings: S1&2: 9/10.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

Great acting except for Madeline Lintz. She's very one dimensional, wooden and unbelievable Love seeing Mimi Roger's back, I hope she continues acting. Titus is incredible with his facial expressions. Titus combines physical and emotional drama so well. Scripts are always written well to the characters. Except again for Maddie who definitely does not fit being a police officer. Perhaps they should have her be a therapist instead. I would like to see Bosch's character have a personal life outside of listening to jazz records at home. I get he's a loaner, but he still has life in him. I'll always watch anything e we it's him in it.

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.

Picks up precisely where Bosch left off and it's exactly what I'd hoped for. Excellent series, thrilled it's continuing. Well done. And love seeing Crate and Barrell!!

We didn't have to wait long for Titus Welliver reprise his role as Harry Bosch in Bosch: Legacy. From the episodes I've watched, this series continues where the series finale left off: Bosch is a PI, Madelyn is now a cop, and Honey Chandler is reluctantly back to work after her near-fatal shooting. I've been watching this on Freevee (formally IMDbTV) and I was expecting ad breaks. No ad breaks on my end. (Not sure why, though. Don't look a gifted horse in the mouth, am I right?) Anyway, I dig this series, and I'll continue to watch it.

Loved the original Bosch series and am loving the new Bosch Legacy, however how could they put the series on a channel with commercials???

It's driving me nuts. I have all channels that are commercial free on purpose and I don't watch commercial TV to avoid commercials.

Will it stay only on I think it's called freebe. Very annoying or will another station pick up the series so I can avoid commercials??

What do other viewers think? I'm curious.

Are other people avoiding the latest version of Bosch because of commercials???

Also IMBD drives me nuts requiring a certain number of characters 🙄

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.

Old one I loved, new one is so boring that my wife can't even stay awake. And Maddy is not even remotely convincing as a cop. I can't understand how this is rated so high. An 8.7 (currently) are you kidding me?!? You realize the caliber of shows that are rated that high? It is this one for sure!

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.