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50 year old Asian male here. I've had a charmed life, so I can't relate to the crazy hardships. Not sure why, but I was tearing up a lot though. Kind of embarrassing cause I'm watching it here at work.

I have beared witness to my Taiwanese family and friends who also left Taiwan in the late 60's and early 70's. The emotional and financial sacrifice to forge a possibly(but not guaranteed) better future for your family in a land of a different tongue and color is tremendous. It takes a special breed of person to take upon this burden. Certainly not the type of entitled brats who so easily criticize the accents of the actors. To me, the spoken Taiwanese, the rice fields, the Taiwanese house courtyards, the nightmarkets, the obligatory piano playing are all a jumbulaya of nostalgia for me. This story rings true to me. Sorry for the rant. I'm hungry now, Wa be ki ja bung.

Titus is smooth as silk, kind of like Caruso from NYPD Blues. Love Hector. He's my favorite. Loved him in the Wire when he was a solid Badazz as Marlo. He's still got the same controlled fearless presence, but he's a cop instead of local drug lord. And his clean cut, "by the book" quality is a good counter to Titus's gray area policing.

Bosch has similar casual and layered police office gamesmanship and wider politics that the Wire has. Not as extensively complex because the story centers around Bosch, but definitely textured and amusing. If you're paying attention, stuff is funny cause you're part of the sardonic inside jokes that cops only get. There is a good amount of procedural details and detective work if you're and old school Law and Order fan(which I am). But you don't drown in it.

There's usually a few intense major gun battles that punctuate each season in the same vein as Heat's shootouts. Major characters are not spared. There's blood and violence if you need that for your adrenaline to spike, but it's just a feature of the show, not a necessity.