Very exciting that this excellent cop-noir show is back on Amazon.
Awesome. Thanks, Chefguy. I had to double check that this was posted for the year 2018; because I didn’t want to be disappointed!
My wife and I have been looking for something fresh to watch; now that we binge watched Mad Men (How did I miss that the first time around!?).
Cool! Thanks for the heads-up.
My gf has never “binged” a show. Over the weekend she asked me how to find Netflix on our TV so she could watch Stranger Things (her friends told her to watch it). So, I taught her how to get started, then ended up re-watching season 1 with her. I didn’t think she’d be into it, but she was.
Ugh,
Season 4 premieres on Prime: Friday, April 13.
Now I have to catch up. I forgot where I stopped, somewhere in season 2 I think.
ETA: nope finished season2, just started 3.
So where did the OP get his information? It appears to be incorrect.
I just checked…it’s on here in the UK today. Yay! I’ve been watching for it!
Oh crap. I’m wrong. It’s just the trailer ������
Yeah, my apologies. The date was for the damn trailer, and the date of April 13 is correct. :smack: To atone, I did see where Amazon has greenlighted Season 5.
I’m not trying to shit on this thread, I promise. I watched the first season of Bosch, and just did not particularly enjoy it. But I did try to imagine how it would be if I hadn’t read the books, which the season seemed to randomly combine in an out-of-order way. Are those of you who are fans of the show also fans of the book series? And have you found later seasons to be better than season one?
I’ve read the books and the plot mixing didn’t bother me at all, as the series characters are true to the book characters, unlike, say, the Longmire series. Titus Welliver is excellent as Bosch.
I’ve listened to some of the Bosch books as audiobooks, and I do like Welliver’s narration. Didn’t care for him as the actor, though. Happy to chalk this one up as a diff’rent strokes kind of thing.
I’ve read all the books, and the plot mixing only bugs me a little. Not the mixing directly, though, as much as them having too many plots in one season. I think the books are complex enough to use just one for a season’s source material. taking from more than one book waters down each story, and gets needlessly confusing going back and forth.
Surprisingly, I don’t find it annoying that they pick stories from before Maddie was born as the source, and have her in the season. The show changes so much in the books it’s best to just treat it as new material.
And the seasons do get better. Season one suffered from new show teething pains. It’s more smooth now.
Despite its problems, it still is better than Major Crimes. 
I’ve read all of the books. I’m a big fan of series. Titus Welliver is good casting for that role. It doesn’t bother me that they jump around story wise; as the characters stay pretty true. One reason is that my least favorite book is where Maddie’s mom dies; On top of that I really like the actress Sarah Clarke who plays Eleanor Wish. For me, I had to get used to the pacing in season one. They don’t slack off on the story; and you really have to pay attention though. I actually like that they mingle different Bosch stories together. It makes it seem more realistic somehow, rather than one long procedural about a single case.
Ack. Change the thread title. I went to Amazon the other night just because of it and d’oh :smack: (I didn’t open the thread because of possible spoilers.)
I don’t mind the mixing of book plots, but I wish they would write an original Bosch script instead. I don’t want any inkling of how the story will play out.
I also wish they had set the show in the 90s and kept the more compelling Vietnam tunnel-rat backstory for Bosch, rather than some vague military service in Desert Storm.
Change requested.
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Title changed. It originally mistakenly said 2/19.
Thank you for not saying “because the OP is an idiot.”
Bump…
Season 4 is up now. Enjoy!
Hurrah! And there was much rejoicing.