PC Bosch?

 

One of the (dis)advantages of all the restaurants and bars being closed is that my “social life,” which previously consisted of designated driver services for tipsy friends and standing in bars with my arms crossed keeping an eye on their coats and purses, has largely been reduce to walking down the hall to interrupt Darling Daughter and talk to her about her non-plans for the day. That’s freed up about one evening per week, which means that I’m watching more streaming video.

My favorite police procedural, bar none, is Bosch, which Amazon produces and streams. I enjoy Michael Connelly’s detective fiction, and I think Amazon has done a terrific job of adopting his Bosch novels to the small screen. I identify in some odd way with the aging widower-with-daughter played by Titus Welliver (who is exactly one month younger than me), which makes the series even more appealing. (I also enjoy the surreal paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, though that doesn’t come up often.)

So I’ve been looking forward to season six of the series, which came out recently. The first episode introduces a would-be terrorist villain (tiny little spoiler, hardly anything as it’s revealed quickly) in the form of a “sovereign” militia. I’m always skeptical of shows that feature non-middle eastern terrorists. Yes, of course they exist, but we all kind of know which group does most of the terrorism today, and it isn’t radical common-law separatists in California.

(It’s Islamic extremists, devotees of the teaching and example of the warlord Muhammad as recorded in countless holy texts. Just in case anyone wondered.)

Anyway, the title of the second season six episode is “Good People on Both Sides.”

Come on, man. Seriously?

But I still love the series. I’m just hoping it won’t get preachy.

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  1. Henry Racette Member
    Henry Racette
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    Finished it. It was a fine Season 6.

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  2. flownover Inactive
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    @flownover

    Thanks for the opinion about Season Six. The other night after watching the bangup ( John Wick as a 53 yr old) finish of Season Five , I started # 6 and recognized all the usual right wing terrorist tropes showing up. Thinking I was about to click off for good, I went to the end of Ep 1 and turned to the internet for some opinion. Searching Season Six Woke PC brought up exactly nothing in pages of results, only media backslapping and kudos for all from their colleagues. Guess the engines are all running on the same fuel mix.

    Then it struck me, go back to Ricochet and look. My habits of sharing things had been forgotten and I hadn’t used Ricochet for years, just recently returning. I was going to post an inquiry, instead I opted for the search engine. What an improvement !

    So thanks Henry for saving the rest of the season for me , I enjoy Bosch and would hate to see it dive down like “24” did so long ago.

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