Chapter One: 'Tis the Season

I really enjoyed this and really hope amazon decided to go ahead and make the full season.

Titus Welliver looks nothing like how I imagined Bosch to appear however it didn't worry me because he is a great actor and captured Harry's mood perfectly.

The supporting cast was excellent particularly Edgar and I noticed some strong actress's in the surrounding roles which bodes well for it's future. Harry's LA was very nicely captured on film particularly his home.

A great start please give us more.

My dad and i are massive fans of Harry Bosch/Michael Connelly and have always wanted a series made and this definitely is a great start/pilot and i am gutted i don't know what happens next..aarrrgghhh!! I wasn't sure about Titus Welliver & obviously i had a picture of Harry in my head, dark brown/black eyes, dark/Grey hair, mustache etc & he was not what i expected but i liked him. I think he captured the feel of his complex character. the house in the hills over the city & the jazz, was great not sure if it was Art Pepper tho.

Overall i hope they make the full series, all the other cop shows are slick & full of ultra fast technology and amazingly they happen to catch the bad guys 1 episode but i feel Harry could bring back the actual hard gritty life of a LA cop like the books and keep you absolutely wanting more and more.

I love it!!!

p.s big thank you to Michael Connelly for bringing Harry back as i could have cried went he retired :)

Amazon Original's new pilot, Bosch, puts it all together: great writing, generous and subtle acting across the full range of characters, moody LA location set-ups (what one reviewer called using the location as a character), razor sharp editing and other production values. This is one of the best "TV" show I have seen in quite awhile. And for a pilot, it is a daring adventure into series-level plot arcs, and not just a pretty package wrapped up at the end of the show.

Connelley and Company's choice of Titus Welliver is particularly satisfying. A well-known face, but as far as I know, never a lead, and for that matter, never much of a sympathetic character, Welliver is deeply invested in the anti-hero character of Harry Bosch. Not just a film noir tough guy, but a deep soul revealed only in tiny bits that never bog down the narrative or the suspense.

Amazon could do far worse than to line this show up for 12-20 episodes in the next season!

Anyone who has read the Harry Bosch series by Michael Connelly will recognize the books the pilot is taken from. The transition from print to screen is everything you could ask for and the acting & production values are excellent. Titus Welliver was the perfect choice to play Harry and Valerie Cruz is the medical examiner Theresa Corazon. Though I had not considered Lance Reddick as Irvin Irving, he is very good in that role. The cast is rounded out with such veteran actors as Alan Rosenberg, Troy Evans, Abraham Benrubi and Amy Aquino. I am recommending this program to all my family and friends. I hope Amazon will give the go ahead to start filming more episodes. If they do, I intend to subscribe to the Amazon Prime service.

Without a close second, this is the best transformation of a well-known novel and its characters into film that I have ever seen. God willing, it will be made into a long-running series on Amazon or Netflix or whatever. I don't care. I just want to see more of the great writing, great acting, and fabulous location shooting in LA. Titus Welliver, a well-recognized TV character actor, is outstanding as Harry Bosch. Even Michael Connelly has commented on how accurate is Welliver's capture of the Bosch mood and style. One of the most impressive aspects of the pilot is how they re-created Bosch's hillside residence in LA. As a one- time resident in the Hollywood Hills, I had doubts that they could find anything like what Connelly portrayed in his books. But they did it! All part of the fantastic movement from well-written novel to well-played movie.