Bosch

TUBE!
 amazon.com studios
stream available on amazon plus.

I love the way everybody is jumping into the foray and helping re-invent television. Netflix is creating brilliant TV, not to mention AMC, or FX, only to name a few. Televison has finally become where the real art is happening. It is no longer movies. I think the day when the up-and-comers have to pay their dues by doing features before they can get into TV is on the horizon.

So amazon.com decides to roll the dice. They steal a guy from the cast of CBS's "The Good Wife" and turn him into Harry Bosch, a police detective in Hollywood, CA, who has just been burdened with the skeletal remains of a 12 year old kid in a 20 year old murder, and an active serial killer, all the while standing trial for a good shoot of a serial killer, and getting intimate with a below pay grade underling, and trying to re-establish an estranged relationship with his 15 year old daughter.

Titus Welliver stars as Harry Bosch, the troubled Hollywood Detective who has always been a rouge because he refuses to kiss any ass in the department. He gets saddled with two horrible cases and gets caught up in the intrigue that involves city politics, and department protocol. Thankfully he has a great partner played by "The Wire" alumni Jamie Hector as Detective Jerry Edgar.

There are too many great supporting cast members to mention, but this cast is first class all the way. A stand-out is Jason Gedrick as a villain Raynard Waits. And it was nice to see Veronica Cartwright in a very brave and outstanding performance.

This is a show that Elmore Leonard and maybe even my hero Raymond Chandler would have loved. It was filled with all the right elements. Ten episodes and out. But I really hope we have more coming. I sincerely wish for that.

I loved this show and would recommend this experience highly. It was ten episodes from amazon. Watch it, and encourage others to do that too. Maybe they'll give us more.....

Grade: A-