Bosch: Legacy - Season 1 Episode 2 Pumped The sun is setting on the epic saga.
Overview: Honey Chandler’s return to the courtroom continues as she fights to defend a homeless man wrongly accused of murder. Bosch zeroes in on Carl Rogers and locates an important character connected to Vance’s haunted past. Maddie and her Training Officer, Reina Vasquez, have their first caper as partners.
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In a way I liked this iteration of the Bosch franchise better than the original, and I am not even sure why. Perhaps because it isn’t juggling quite so many storylines and carrying them all on through episodes and even through the seasons. But of course I liked the original quite a lot, so that isn’t a criticism. Heck, they even brought Crate and Barrel into the show, who they stole the show at times the first time around. I thought they tried too hard to make the assassin look totally methodical, focused and almost inhuman, as if that were a requirement for the job or that they felt they needed to in order to show a woman could do that grim and deadly work. Also, Mandy Bosch claims she loves her new job, and that is both possible and a good thing. It is neat that she can talk to her dad for his perspective on police work. But there were a few times it felt like she is a cop with a social worker inside her trying to get out. But these random observations don’t change that I found this to be a tense, dramatic and excellent continuation of the Bosch legacy, if you will.