Bosch (TV Series) Jury's Still Out (2021) User Reviews

great development

[Lythas_85 · 9/10 · 27 June 2021]

Plot is developing but I'm sad Lance Riddick has been used only minimally and his storyline is just him chatting with his girlfriend and brooding about his 2nd term.

So in the end, Maddy started opening herself to the boyfriend. One would say she just needed time and do it on her own and not because her boyfriend was pushing her to do it... ok.. but on all those military shows where the guy has PTSD, the gf or wife never lets the dude do it on his own and is never sympathetic to his pain.. they're usually forceful and demands he, a man, opens himself up to her on her terms.. lol.

Oh let's not forget the bit where maddy get his dad's gun and just puts in in her purse. Since she's got plot armor, I'm pretty sure she's gonna off the bad dude in the end.

Damn good revelation at the end but we kinda expected who the bad guy was but the thing is.. Bosch is so worried about his daughter but he keeps her at his house... that has basically no walls in the living room? Lol and no security whatsoever that Edgar just drove and parked like 100ft from them and could observe them clearly through the wallless living room? Errrr that ain't make no sense son.

Life Is Short And Then You Die.....

[wandernn1-81-683274 · 7/10 · 9 August 2021]

Do you still believe in the possibility of justice in this world????

The Jury Is Still Out.

Good to see Lance Riddick not taking what's coming to him lying down.

Harry and Jerry keep the pressure on the bad guy.

And OH SNAP! Maddie becomes a big target as a witness.....

Effective storytelling

[snoozejonc · 8/10 · 12 November 2023]

J. Edgar makes a bad error during an interview.

This is a solid episode that develops effective tension going into to the last few episodes of the series. I like the way the writers have tied J. Edgar's mental health issues into the main plot line. I have a few thoughts on what I think will happen in regards to the character Maddie and am interested to see if it is an accurate prediction or not. This aspect of the story is the most engaging for me and the episode ends in a way that makes me want to find out what happens next.

I will keep an open mind on the Billets plot as it started fairly intriguing and I was hoping for a conspiracy. However, what it indicates in this one is not particularly interesting. If it takes a more political turn involving someone higher up the command chain orchestrating it to force her out then, although predictable, it will be more compelling.

Irving's scenes include another moment of the couple at home together, seemly quite relaxed, with no reference to the baby. I am sure we will see them back at the hospital in the next few episodes when it suits the plot.

For me it is a 7.5/10, but I round upwards.

In the Way

[Hitchcoc · 10/10 · 25 June 2021]

From its inception, the forces in power have made obstruction a science. Once again Harry and his people must wade through red tape and obfuscation. LT continues to investigate the baddies on the force who have a history going way back. Jerry shoots his mouth off in front of a shyster lawyer and now Maddie must testify in front of a grand jury because of her connection to the taping of the client who was murdered. Sadly, two more episodes to go and the show is history.

Preserving testimony

[schulmange · 6/10 · 3 January 2022]

SPOILERS.

One plot point here is that Maddie can be protected by her testifying before the grand jury, thereby preserving her testimony, and thus eliminating the risk to her by the bad guys, once the fact of Maddie's testimony is leaked.

Under the evidence code, in order to use such prior testimony by an unavailable witness the prosecutor would need to prove that her unavailability was caused by the defendant. And prove that beyond a reasonable doubt. The concept that there are no coincidences discussed earlier in the show is not proof. If you had such proof, the elimination of a witness would draw a life sentence by itself.

This is separate from the old saying that folks who are targets of hit men ought not live in glass houses.

Or that folks who had no compunction in hiring a hit man to eliminate the witness, his girlfriend, and the mayorista would not also eliminate the two bomb throwers.

Or that the hit man clearly had information that not only was Franzen a risk, but that his lawyer was also a risk, but that no other persons in Honey Chandler's office knew anything, and that Chandler's office did not have an electronic copy of the deposition stored to the cloud.

Or more importantly, that no criminal defendant's attorney ever had his/her client undergo a private deposition. What was the point of preserving his testimony under oath?