It is definitely a Legacy!

 

Thanks to Sixty for the heads up as I caught the first four episodes of Bosch Legacy and I have to say they were pretty good.

The series is based on the novels of Michael Connelly as was the original recipe Bosch series.  In fact, Connally is the show runner this time around. They eliminated much of the cast and concentrated on Harry as a private detective. This is true to the books that I read about a decade ago so I sort of remember the plots but am still surprised about some of it. A major subplot is the fact that his daughter is a rookie cop following in her father's footsteps. I have to say that this is particularly well done and very realistic. I had to laugh when they ran an ad for this show on "The Rookie" which is an ABC show that covers the same subject matter. In the glitzy Rookie the young cops are all movie star worthy looking. The female detectives could be super models. In Bosch Legacy the rookie cops are chubby Latina Lesbians. Very true to reality. Being a cop is a working class occupation. College educated people don't become cops anymore. Even the pipeline of young Irish kids from Long Island is over. It is a city job and it is only for city residents. None of the whites living in NYC want to be cops. So you basically draw from the working class black brown and even oriental communities. So Legacy is very realistic right off the bat. Bosch's daughter makes mistakes left and right. She is not perfect but she tries hard. I don't know if she should really be a cop because she is 90 pounds soaking wet and got her ass kicked twice in the first couple of episodes. Still it is a story I am willing to follow.

The other subplot involves the ultra-liberal lawyer Honey Chandler played by Mimi Rogers. Even with her woke bullshit she stills wants revenge on the mook who had her shot and is willing to bend any rule to get it. All of her liberal cant goes out the window. Looking at her I can only think of one thing.

She was married to Tom Cruise. Now she kind of looks like his mother. What kind of surgery did that fuck have so he looks so young? In scientology do you sell your soul to the devil to look young? IF so why didn't Travolta get the same deal? It just doesn't track.

Anyhoo I would recommend you check it out. You don't have to have seen the original series. It is on the new Amazon free streaming service called Amazon Freevee which used to be IMBD TV. They have some commercials but not a large block of them that you get in regular tv. So give it a try. I think you will like it.

WKRLEM: The Original Harry Bosch

The Grand Daddy of detective series. Written and directed by the great Blake Edwards. He was the original Harry Bosch. The moody detective who loved jazz and was always getting beat up but closing the case.

The shows still hold up. Or at least they are quite entertaining. Most of all because of the great Lola Albright. She sang in a lot of these episodes. You know it amazes me. The writers and show runners in the fifties and sixties packed a great story into a half hour. If you watch Peter Gunn or Gunsmoke or The Rifleman you wonder about the idiots who make TV today. But maybe not. Maybe they make a half hour show and they just pack it with commercials to stretch it into an hour.

Anyway enjoy!

NYPD Troop

While looking for some old tv series to watch while I am in the house I scrolled through the available shows and thought "Hmm, NYPD Blue - that was moderately interesting back in the day". It still is. But what is more interesting to me now is recognizing the actors and actresses who show up. Plenty of Sopranos mopes - Christofuh, Little Carmine, Ralphie Cifaretto AKA Vinnie Greco, many generic actors from shows old and new, and just now a serious doctor came running into the scene and it was none other than a very young Titus Welliver.

I think I must be watching too much television if I start noticing things like when and where actors get jobs.

Bosch Tune

The funny thing is I keep watching NYPD Blue due to the character Sipowicz - he reminds me of a more competent version of my late ex-father-in-law combined with an obnoxious brother I used to have. Dennis Franz retired to Idaho and left acting behind. He keeps himself warm way up north there burning the stack of money he earned on this one series. Good for him.

Bosch he said.

Being laid up  I am binge watching a lot of stuff on Hulu, Amazon and even Netflicks. The past couple of days I have been checking out season four of "Bosch."

It's pretty good.

The best part is the performance of Titus Welliver who is superb in the role. Long a character actor who specialized in heavies he is taking this role and running with it.

This is of course based on the series of novels by Michael Connelly. This particular season is based on the novel "Angels Flight" which uses a lot of the plot but makes significant changes that only improve the story.

It is always fun to have a series where an author is involved. Time and again these shows are just superior. Elmore Leonard in "Justified' is one example. George Rape Rape Martin in "Game of Thrones" is another. When there is so much good material it is great when it is boiled down to a TV show. This even happens on womans novels on Hallmark. It is just better than the run of the mill muck that TV writers come up with.

In any event I highly recommend this series on Amazon. If you have Amazon Prime it does not cost you anything. If you haven't seen this show you can binge watch four seasons. You will enjoy it immensely.

Film Noir……..Shiny suits, skinny ties and jazz.

I am obsessed with Film Noir. But then youse guys know that. I go off on tangents and get obsessed with subjects all the time. Starlets of the 1960’s. Hallmark TV. Sinead O’Conner. Trump. So I do a bunch of posts on the subject. Currently I am jonesing on Film Noir.

Film Noir has been defined as a style or genre of cinematographic film marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism and menace. I think of it when I watch those late fifties early sixties TV shows that I love. Brooding protagonists in cheap shiny suits with skinny ties sitting in a club listing to jazz while drinking whiskey neat with a blowsy dame. Getting mixed up in some craziness with sinister overtones.

Harry Bosch.....rocking good yarn.

I just finished season Two of Harry Bosch which is an Amazon original series. Amazon has started producing it's own content in much the same way as Netflicks. This is the second season of the dramatization of some of the novels of Michael Connelly featuring LA homicide Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch. Season One was excellent and the second season keeps up the standard. Great production values and a gritty LA milieu add up to superior entertainment.

The key element to Harry's pysche is that his Mom was a prostitute who was murdered when he was a kid. Something he shares with real life author James Ellroy who is the definitive LA nior writer. I don't know if Connelly stole his life story but he got a lot of mileage out of it. Twenty excellent novels that will leave Amazon a lot of room to develop new series.

Amazon Prime is a great deal. For a nominal fee you get expedited shipping and tons of free streaming video. I heartily recommend it as well as this excellent detective series.