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Critic Reviews
Jun 25, 2021
Season 7 Review:
"Bosch" honored the work of police without always celebrating that work — a neat trick, especially in 2021, but often effective here. As a reminder that cops are both fallible and human, this series always held them to a higher standard. In "Bosch," sometimes — most times, really — they actually met it.
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TV Guide MagazineJul 1, 2021
Season 7 Review:
Cop shows haven't felt this real since the glory days of Steve Bochco (NYPD Blue). [5 - 18 Jul 2021, p.9]
Apr 16, 2020
Season 6 Review:
“Bosch” is a show of small but persistent pleasures, and they remain intact. The writing is literate but natural. ... [Storylines] dip in and out of one another seamlessly. Welliver and Hector, and Welliver and Lintz, create relationships so quietly believable, it’s as if they’re in the room with you.
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UPROXXApr 19, 2017
Apr 13, 2017
Mar 11, 2016
Season 2 Review:
Bosch is a welcome change of pace from the many procedurals on the networks, especially those that overwhelm their stories with technological jargon. Amazon’s 10-epsiode series is perfect to binge on, a long, involving mystery in which the detective still does leg work.
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IndieWireMar 11, 2016
Season 2 Review:
Granted, the dialogue can occasionally feel a bit forced and the core characters are very much grounded in a different era of police perception, but neither are marked hindrances to what makes the Amazon drama worth watching. It's still all about Harry Bosch. Now, he's just getting more to chew on.
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Feb 10, 2015
Season 1 Review:
Bosch has grit; it just needs more grip. [13 Feb 2015, p.66]
Apr 19, 2019
Season 5 Review:
In its determined lack of adornment, its commitment to the straight and narrow — reflecting the personality of its hero — “Bosch” is an increasingly rare commodity in a time when genre dramas will resort to any kind of high-concept trickery to stand out. It doesn’t withhold information to create false tension, or play games with point of view, or arbitrarily ratchet the pace up and down. It just puts one foot in front of the other and trusts its audience to follow along. ... There’s less mystery than usual in that central story, though.
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UPROXXApr 20, 2018
Season 4 Review:
One of the best things the show figured out how to do was to draw lots of stories from lots of different Bosch novels, keeping Bosch, Edgar, and company so busy that there are never the dead spots you get in most shows that use the “It’s a 10-hour movie” narrative approach. This season, though, felt like it had too much on its plate in both quantity and quality of cases.
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TV Guide MagazineMar 3, 2016
Season 2 Review:
Harry Bosch knows who he is, and it's a pleasure getting to know him better. [7-10 Mar 2016, p.19]
Feb 13, 2015
Season 1 Review:
Mr. Connelly is one of the writers and executive producers, along with co-executive producer Eric Overmyer of “The Wire” and much other fame. They know good writing, with not a word wasted. They know cop lore and lingo and what turns viewers on about the genre. There’s a solid cast. The rest... who knows? It just happens.
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Feb 13, 2015
Season 1 Review:
The unsettled, rule-breaking personality of the central character, his affair with an underdeveloped female character, a murderer who's too clever by half--these things aren't hard to find on TV. And though Bosch is credible, the episodes I saw weren't at such a fantastic level of execution that I have to see more of it and feel the need to shout from the rooftops about it.
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Feb 13, 2015
Season 1 Review:
Bosch--at least in its first four episodes—eschews action, downplays the mystery, and uses conflict primarily to paint its hero as a troubled-but-noble champion, beset by small-minded jerks. Not until the end of the fourth episode does anything shocking happen that would compel casual viewers to click to see more.
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