I want to start off by saying: I LOVE BOSCH. Just last week I called it one of the most underrated TV shows after watching season 5 for the first time.
Last week I rewatched seasons 1-4 and as I said watched 5 for the first time. So watching this now it was very easy to compare, and one thing was incredibly obvious to me: The quality of the writing has decreased massively.
Season 5 has suffered from an overload of storylines that ultimately were only a setup for this season, making it very convoluted and hard to follow at times.
Although the storylines get closed off at the end of this season (and not in a bad way, I quite enjoyed how it all came together), they didn't do a very good job at balancing the scenes. Alot of jumps between storylines and many scenes that felt dragged out and unnecessary.
This whole thing with Grace Billets and her touching this one Detectvie (who's name I don't even know after watchinf her for 2 seasons because she is so utterly irrelevant) felt very, VERY forced.
The dialogue this season was clunky and unnatural, it's hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that this season was written by the same writer. Especially in the first episode it felt like the characters were talking (and to some extent behaving) out of character. But generally some intereactions were just weird. Everything the captain said felt like a 15 year old wrote it and the whole thing with the daughter of the Detective that died felt so amateurish.
There was also alot of convenient circumstances in this season. For example: Why does Dr. Kent have a hidden camera in his living room, if he suspects that her wife was cheating on him? I mean, she wouldn't cheat on him at their home, right?
Or one more example: The Alex dude, who did the blackmailing with Daisy Clayton still had that laptop after 10 years? My laptop stopped booting a few years after I stopped using it. But let's say it still worked, he kept the laptop because of all the music on it? Really? Come on...
Not to say that this season didn't have any good. It was quite enjoyable, it just wasn't anywhere near the level of previous seasons.
This last episode had 0 tension. None. And I'll tell you why. 1) Before we know what happens with the bomb we know Bosch won't die, obviously, so we also know that none of the other main characters die, because they were all in the same room with him. For me that was incredibly obvious. 2) Once Barrel left the courtroom it was super predictable that he'd be the one to notice something was up, and he did. That one of the big problems with this season as well. Everything felt so obvious. Little felt natural. All the necessary information is shoved in the viewers face and there is no guessing left.
Then lastly, in this episode Jerry kills Jack. Why on earth would they do it like this? Explaining it after the fact? It takes ALL the tension. Puff. Gone. Sure, we want to know what happened there, but we immediately get told that Jerry is alive and that Jack is dead. Thanks. No we don't have to worry! Yey show!!
Okay enough. I was very unhappy with this season. I hope next one will be better! :D
I know this is gonna get alot of downvotes cause fans of the show like downvoting criticism (I do too), but I just had to say this, because I love this show so much.
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