Bosch (TV Series) Some Measure of Justice (2020) User Reviews

The Journey

[gensbill · 10/10 · 18 April 2020]

Bosch, both the hero and the series, is still as dark as ever and still worth every minute of the viewer's time.

Harry and J. Edgar remain as haunted by their successes as they are by their failures. Watching them never give up, despite the toll both take on each man is what makes it worthwhile.

Some of the Bad Guys Are Still Out There

[Hitchcoc · 10/10 · 18 April 2020]

This does a good job of wrapping up several storylines without solving everything. We have the guys J. Edgar has been dealing with front and center. I was glad to see Irving facing a serious problem but finding a way to make the car guy pay a price. Harry's relationship with his daughter is at time respectful, except at times she acts like a 13 year old, pouting and going to her room. Finally, Harry takes care of unfinished business. I'll be ready for Season 7 if I survive the virus.

Another sad moment... the end of another season and the long wait begins!

[tim-Chinchen · 10/10 · 17 May 2020]

I've enjoyed every season of Bosch, a brilliant series and the best you'll find on Amazon Prime.

Love the books and love the adaptation and they're both very different in many respects.

This episode closed off a number of threads - Wise, Clayton and thank goodness for Barrel! (Crate and Barrel are brilliant!)

Can't wait until the next season, I hope Titus and Connelly together with the great supporting cast continue to keep it coming!

All plot lines wrapped up

[anthonylesley · 9/10 · 18 April 2020]

This episode comes to a great conclusion I really enjoyed this season

Another great season

[Lythas_85 · 9/10 · 10 June 2020]

I don't see the point of Bosch's kid.. ok, she's there so he can chat about the cases and vent a bit cause he's got no special one to do it like Irving. But at times she's such a brat. Her argument earlier in the episode about Money Chandler was ridiculous.. her saying that Bosch was hypocrite cause he thought Chandler was good when she was defending him but bad when she was defending the bad girl who killed her own husband was bad to watch. And like a brat she couldn't take the conversation and left for her room..

lol but anyway I think it overall, it was good episode and an ok season.

Some loose threads in the last season

[ramblingvagabond · 8/10 · 9 October 2020]

I just binged 60 episodes of this great show. One thing that bugs me is how the daughter interacts with her father. One minute you think they're going to have a meaningful conversation, the next she runs to her room and shuts the door like a 12 year old. She acts like she wants to learn about what her father does, but only through the eyes of Money Chandler. Why not listen to her father? In 60 episodes I don't recall her ever doing a ride-along.

Season six felt forced in many ways. The whole sovereign citizen arc seemed unnatural and inserted for no real reason. First of all, they try to equate libertarians with terrorists? Wow, libertarians are about the most benign group out there. If recent events have told us anything, the left (progressives, anarchists, etc) are actively doing what would be called terroristic activity if it were any other group. Second, neo-nazis are hardly a strong force in America, and no one in any political party is sympathetic with them; yet they are trotted out by hollywood anytime a bad-guy is needed. Plus the ending of that arc was so blasé. Deus ex machina-ish, It was tacked on to the end of the show, with very little tension, and it just sort of fizzled out. After all the buildup for 10 episodes? That's all they had?

But the biggest loose thread was Billets being accused of sexual harassment, and then the sergeant making another accusation...and then nothing. We have to wait a year and a half to see season seven start with "13 months later", and a brief explanation of how it turned out without actually showing us.

And yes, I think it will be late 2021 before we see season seven. Apparently no one in hollywood can work during the virus. Too bad hollywood isn't run by school children, they seem to be the only group of people in America we are willing to shove together in close contact on buses and in classrooms without masks.

When the system fails...

[snoozejonc · 8/10 · 30 October 2023]

Mrs Kent's trial resumes and tragedy affects the mindset of several individuals.

This is an eventful episode that is difficult to detail without spoiling. However it is safe to say that it has some powerful moments of characters with little or no faith in the justice system reacting in different and some case extreme ways. It is the ethics around these various decisions made by numerous characters is what makes it interesting to me.

There is a central action-suspense sequence that has been criticised for a lack of realism. I (thankfully) have never been involved in this type of situation in real life, but I personally did not find it that bad. Yes, Harry seems to be ridiculously unaffected by the event, but this is television entertainment and for me should not be taken overly seriously. The key moments all involve character behaviour as opposed to the obligatory Hollywood spectacle.

I think the visuals are as strong as ever, with plenty of storytelling done by good camerawork and editing.

All actors are on good form, especially Titus Welliver and Jamie Edgar.

Good series

[dierregi · 8/10 · 5 February 2023]

This series is a winner no matter what because all the compromises the detectives have to make are so grittily realistic.

As with most of the previous ones, this series worked well for me, because of the multiple threads. The plot follows Bosch still busy with Daisy Clayton, but also dragged into a conspiracy that turns out to be something different from what suggested by the FBI.

J. Edgar is still pursuing Jacques Avril, the smiling evil man from his past and things just get worse by the minute. Other secondary plots are about Maddie changing her mind about Money Chandler and Irving having doubts about his plans - or rather, being kind of forced out of the race.

Some complained about the ending being too "optimistic" and I agree that the bomb plot was perhaps a bit hurried, but there isn't much optimism in the Clayton's story, nor in the match between Edgar and Avril.

Everybody is damaged and disappointed, even the LT who had to face a useless harassment procedure, which once more highlights how much soulless bureaucracy is set in motion by the attempts to keep a safe working environment.

A "Just Okay" season of Bosch

[aarongnr · 7/10 · 17 April 2020]

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.

Unrealistic

[schulmange · 3/10 · 5 March 2021]

While I'm a great fan of both the books and the series, I write today solely about the bombing. There is no way that Harry emerges from the hallway with his hearing, let alone only a scratch. A bomb going off in that confined area can kill not only from projectiles but from the overpressure. The movie 1917 handled the bomb going off better, but still not realistic. If Harry survived, he'd be out of action for a week or much longer.

I say this as a survivor of two bombings.

Disappointing end of season

[cuvtixo-13 · 6/10 · 21 April 2020]

The Liz/Daisy Clayton arc wore thin this season. I found Bosch's continuing sympathy for the mother irritating. Also we are supposed to believe veteran detective Bosch doesn't anticipate her relapse and unresolved grief? He continues a personal vendetta and threatens Daisy's killer, even when the testimony leads to resque of other girls from a cartel leader? Why would Bosch be questioning the perp anyways? And what's with the military funeral of Liz Clayton? Is that the writers' desperate attempt to keep the character sympathetic? At least the actress playing Bosch's daughter has improved somewhat. In past seasons all her acting was in her shoulders (did the young actress have a spinal injury? Looked like it) Although her character is still ridiculously virtuous. The "super student" going to law school for perfect reasons made me nauseous. This last episode lost "gritty realism", it looked like they were anticipating cancellation of the series.

Jumped the shark hard

[bucklew-jeff · 1/10 · 25 February 2021]

I've enjoyed Bosch, especially from the end of season 3 through most of season 6, but this finale is laughably bad, and I'm frankly surprised by the ratings. The dialogue throughout is forced and cliche, and everything seems rushed. The culmination of J. Edgar's story line is clearly kluged on/rushed, and Irving bowing out is, too. The bombing is so bad it's disrespectful. Any cop, even a former military man, would have gone further than clearing the room and would have attempted to clear the building and absolutely would have called in the bomb squad. "No time!" - yeah ... forced plot magic. How did he know there was no time? How did he know that throwing it down a random hall would be enough? What happened in the floor above that hallway? Finally, his being caught in the explosion was the dumbest thing I've seen in a show that has otherwise been a bastion of gritty reality. I honestly feel bad for the cast and crew, who otherwise do a fantastic job. The writing was suspect/spotty throughout seasons 1-2, with myriad loose threads and zero character development, but it looked as though that started to change at the end of season 3. After a couple promising seasons, this was the worst episode of the entire show, hands down. I'm probably going to skip season 7.

More action, less realism, too much vigilantism

[raffietz · 6/10 · 2 July 2020]

While the series as a whole is great, the season 6 final is underwhelming. Bosch is becoming more and more of an action hero. This was already introduced in season 5, when he killed all those drug-guys, first two in the plane, then three in his house. Now he safes all those people in the courtroom, throwing the bomb, getting almost killed... The more realistic approach of the first seasons is pretty much gone. I'm especially worried about the vigilantism in this episode. Jay-Edgar kills Avril not in self-defence, Harry threatens Daisys murderer in the interrogation room when the camera's off. Harry continues to blame Honey Chandler for advocating criminals and the show kind of lets it seem like there is no such thing as innocent convicts.

My expectations for season 7 are big, but a lot of effort has to be put into Jay-Edgar and how he handles his murder of Avril. It definitely has the potential to be a very good series final. can't wait!

Couldn't even finish watching it

[yavermbizi · 1/10 · 29 November 2020]

My overall rating of "Bosch"'s Season 6: 3/10

Why do they make these 45-minutes-long finales when they could just have the words "HAPPY END" run across the screen for a couple of minutes to the same result?!

Even ignoring how time and space is apparently as convoluted in "Bosch"'s Los Angeles as in "Dark Souls"'s Lordran; even ignoring how Bosch at this point outbonds Bond with his ridiculous and boring narrow escapes; even ignoring how due process doesn't work anymore (unexpected realism?); they couldn't even let the sovereign citizen lady become a martyr on her terms. Starting with Season 3 "Bosch"'s finales are competing which can be the most awful.