Not sure why I held up on watching this for so long. I think I finished Bosch and needed a break from procedurals for a second.
I’ve enjoyed watching Titus Welliver since Deadwood.
Bosch always seems to travel a straight line, one carved out by his notion of what he needs to get and his determination to just plough towards that goal.
When he was a cop it never felt like he was intentionally kicking against the higher-ups, it was just that there was one for something to be done, and dancing around it, or dealing with political bullshit within the department never made much sense to him.
As a PI he operates the same — it isn’t that he is going out of his way to frustrate those who don’t want him to succeed in his aims — he is just going to plough through them and annoy them because he is on a as the crow flies trajectory, and they are in the way.
The show never feels predictable though, because him being a straight arrow, causes all kinds of interesting behaviour in those he interacts with. His daughter is the same. So is Mimi Rogers. Is it as simple then as straight lines and crooked lines running into each other? Maybe. It’s much more watchable than that maybe sounds.
It’s a shame it was cancelled, but there is a Ballard spin-off coming, and a campaign to save it here.