Titus Welliver is a brooding Harry Bosch. Like there’s another kind.
Bosch
If you like Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch series as I do, I think you’ll find this adaptation outstanding. With Connelly as an executive producer (and sometimes writer on Season 1, the show and star Titus Welliver (Silas Adams from Deadwood) have hit every chord in the novels. Welliver is every bit the edgy, obsessive character on a mission that Bosch is, tightly wound as if wanting to strike half the people he meets.
The rest of the cast has been great. Three actors from The Wire contribute their talents: Jamie Hector’s Jerry Edgar feels the hurt of working with a partner like Bosch; Lance Reddick brings his ramrod presence and death stare to Chief Irving; and James Ransone is a slick corrupt cop on season three. Fine actors fill every role, including Amy Aquino, Mimi Rogers, Jason Gedrick, Jamie McShane, Paul Calderon (Det. Robertson on Seasons 3 and 4) and countless others. The Wire remains my favorite police drama, followed by Homicide, but they were both ensemble shows. Bosch is the best I’ve ever seen that focuses on one hero, and one of the most accurate in procedural terms. Connelly worked the police and justice beat for the L.A. Times for years to prepare for his writing career and the show brings his realism and unblinking look at the courts, media and police brass.
Best of all is the way the plots of different novels are woven together. Season 4, for example, is based on two books published 10 years apart: Angel’s Flight (1999) and Nine Dragons (2009). Looking forward to Season 5 in 2019.
