Summary
- Bosch: Legacy is not a typical procedural, with cases spanning entire seasons rather than solving one per episode.
- The show is often mislabeled, potentially harming its reputation and fight for survival.
- Despite high quality and serialized storytelling, Bosch: Legacy struggles to avoid being lumped in with traditional procedural shows.
Bosch: Legacy is gearing up for its third and final season in March 2025, but the fight continues to save it with the fan-led petition on change.org. The show is a serialized crime epic, but for some reason, it keeps being referred to as a run-of-the-mill procedural show. This kind of thing harms Bosch: Legacy, as it doesn’t entice potential newcomers to watch the show.
No disrespect to procedurals, but Bosch: Legacy is on a different level and isn’t the type of cop show where a case is solved at the end of each episode. If anything, sometimes the case doesn’t get solved at all, but that reflects the reality of police work. Michael Connelly’s books are crime fiction at their best, but they have deep roots in reality. Bosch and Bosch: Legacy have adapted a mixture of two books for each season from the very start, and this is one of many things that sets it apart from all the procedural shows out there.
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Bosch: Legacy Is Referred To As A Procedural By People Who Clearly Don’t Watch The Show
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Bosch: Legacy Season 3 |
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Starring |
Titus Welliver, Mimi Rogers, Madison Lintz, Chang, Denise G. Sanchez, Scott Klace, Gregory Scott Cummins, Troy Evans, Orla Brady, Michael Reilly Burke, Andrea Cortes, Dale Dickey, Mark Rolston, Anthony Gonzales, Tommy Martinez and Maggie Q |
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Based on the books by |
Michael Connelly |
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Tom Bernardo, Michael Connelly, and Eric Ellis Overmyer |
What exactly is a procedural television show? In a nutshell, an episode of a procedural television show sees a problem introduced at the start, and the middle section investigates it, and it gets solved by the end. That definition does not relate to Bosch: Legacy in any way, shape or form. In Bosch and Bosch: Legacy, the main problem is introduced, investigated and (sometimes) solved over the course of a season, and not in the space of an episode. In fairness, the confusion comes from the fact that it’s often police shows that are referred to as procedurals, and shows like Bosch: Legacy get thrown in with the rest of the bunch. Examples of procedural police shows are Law & Order, CSI and NCIS, to name but a few. These shows are extremely well-made, with great casts, good stories and a talented creative team behind the scenes, but the audience doesn’t need to see every episode for it all to make sense. Everything is wrapped up in a tidy bow by the end of each episode, and the reset button is pressed the following week.
As real fans of Bosch: Legacy know, Harry Bosch doesn’t always get justice for the victims he advocates for. . If he did, his police desk wouldn’t be full of pictures of unidentified Jane Doe murder victims. If Bosch was the lead character in Law & Order, he’d solve multiple cases per season, but it wouldn’t be very interesting. The introduction of the library of lost souls cold cases in the upcoming Bosch: Legacy season 3 and the Ballard spin-off perfectly sums up the fact that the Bosch-verse is far from a procedural. People who don’t watch Bosch: Legacy but have heard a lot of surface information about it usually refer to it as a procedural show. It’s difficult to dislodge the procedural tag when it gets mentioned over and over.
Save Bosch: Legacy Petition Key Facts
- A petition to Save Bosch: Legacy can be signed HERE
- The petition has nearly reached its initial target of 15,000 signatures.
- The fans have the power to Save Bosch: Legacy
The Procedural Tag Is Potentially Damaging To Bosch: Legacy, Especially As it Fights To Stay On The Air
Over the course of ten combined seasons of Bosch and Bosch: Legacy, the eponymous detective turned private investigator has solved many complicated crime cases. However, he also suffered the frustration of seeing the bad guys slip through the net on more than one occasion. He also had his own personal demons to contend with, while trying to develop a relationship with his once estranged daughter, Maddie. Not the typical goings-on in a supposed procedural television show, right? Bosch: Legacy is not a run-of-the-mill police show. Unfortunately, Bosch: Legacy often gets branded as a procedural and this could have a detrimental effect on the fight to keep it on television screens. For most procedurals, one season is more than enough, but they continue regardless, churning out the same formulaic content year upon year. After nearly ten seasons, the Bosch-verse consistently delivers new and interesting serialized storytelling. In fact, Bosch: Legacy falls into the bracket of a hyper-serialized show with cliffhangers at the end of each of the first two seasons.
There’s a fire of a new day coming ’round
It’s a feeling like a cool rain coming down
It’s a rhythm of a new song singing
Instead of becoming more formulaic as the years have gone on, Bosch: Legacy has done the opposite. Everything is more intrinsically linked than it ever was, and the exciting introduction of Renee Ballard into the equation is proof that Michael Connelly’s crime universe was on the cusp of an exciting expansion. The plan was to have Bosch: Legacy and Ballard crossovers, which would have added more depth to the overarching story. Ironically, all the aforementioned procedural shows have all had multiple spin-off shows despite not possessing anywhere close to the dedication to a high quality serialized format that Bosch: Legacy does. If procedurals can run forever, why can’t one of the best serialized shows on television do the same?
Sign The Petition To Save Bosch: Legacy Here
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