Bosch is back! But not for long. Season 3 of Bosch: Legacy, now streaming on Prime Video, will be the last for this version of author and series executive producer Michael Connellyâs character, as Hieronymous âHarryâ Bosch, the retired detective and private eye played by Titus Welliver, continues to overlap with the Los Angeles Police Department, the cityâs high-powered attorneys, and the usual handful of types trying to harm either Harry or his daughter, LAPD beat cop Maddie Bosch (Madison Lintz). Season 3 of Bosch: Legacy opens eight months after the events of season 2. Honey âMoneyâ Chandler (Mimi Rogers) is running for LA district attorney, Bosch is running her security, Maddie and her partner, Officer Reyna Vasquez (Denise G. Sanchez), are back on duty, and there are faces from the past asking questions about Harry. Bosch veteran Paul Calderón returns as Detective Santiago âJimmyâ Robertson.
BOSCH LEGACY – SEASON 3: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?
Opening Shot: Honey âMoneyâ Chandler (Rogers) speaks at a press conference on the steps of the LA County Courthouse building. âUnder Emmet Archer, criminals are set loose, victims are abandoned, and the police ostracized. I say, no more.â
The Gist: Emmet Archer (Jim Holmes), the incumbent district attorney, is not happy about Chandler campaigning for his job. But heâs got gripes with Harry Bosch (Welliver), too. The jailhouse phone call Preston Borders (Chris Browning) made last season, and his cryptic âI took care of itâ message for Bosch, has Archer and LAâs new police chief ordering Detective Robertson (Calderón) to shadow his former colleague. Did Bosch conspire to murder Kurt Dockweiler (David Denman) in prison?
The death of Dockweiler, the lowlife who abducted her, is not so much on the mind of Officer Maddie Bosch (Lintz) as is getting back into the swing of being on the job. One night, when Bosch and Vasquez (Sanchez) respond to a 2-11, they suspect itâs part of a larger wave of âfollow-homeâ robberies that have plagued the city. Maddie and Reyna are also doing plainclothes double-duty, helping out Harry as he runs security for Honey Chandlerâs campaign. (This is also where Stephen Chang comes in as Maurice âMoâ Bassi.) And on the Chandler front, another face from the past has resurfaced in Frank Sheehan (Jamie McShane). Bosch hasnât seen Sheehan for six years, back when they were both still detectives on the force. But the mess Sheehan made back then has inspired his return. When a brick smashes through her car window â âjust the beginningâ reads the attached scrawl â Honey worries it could be Sheehan.
While Bosch stays wrapped up in police business even though heâs retired, heâs also officially a private detective, and season 3 of Legacy will find him on a puzzling â and possibly dangerous â new case. Heâs still Maddieâs dad more than heâs her professional mentor â their dinners and chats at his Hollywood Hills pad continue to fuel the showâs emotional core. And with the circumstances of the Dockweiler murder still unclear, and Detective Robertson snooping around, it feels like Bosch: Legacy will land on a series conclusion that looks backward as much as it sets up the future of the Bosch universe.
What Shows Will It Remind You Of? Bosch: Legacy was the first Bosch spinoff, but it wonât be the last. The final season of Legacy will also launch a new series set in the Bosch universe, starring Maggie Q as LAPD robbery-homicide detective and cold case specialist Renée Ballard. And while the vagaries of network licensing agreements forbid a crossover, Harry Bosch technically exists in the The Lincoln Lawyer TV universe, too: in Michael Connellyâs original novels, heâs half-brothers with Mickey Haller.
Our Take: Bosch: Legacy is too serious-minded to really focus on it, but itâs nice to see âCrateâ (Gregory Scott Cummins) and âBarrelâ (Troy Evans) appear in the first episode of its final season. After all, Harry Bosch is retired. Why shouldnât he utilize his Old Guy Crew of former cops for occasional support and surveillance? These touches have always served Legacy well, because like his relationship with Maddie, they lend a lighter feel to the resting tough guy stance Titus Welliver relies on as Bosch. Sure, heâs still tough. Still quick on the draw, too. But itâs nice that Legacy makes its main characterâs white-haired life in retirement believable, and not just as a prop to keep him in the orbit of LA law and order.
Weâre also interested in how theyâre gonna end this thing. With another spinoff on the way, it might not be permanent. But it does have to be convincing. And beyond the issues of Harry Boschâs career, uh, legacy, and how he stays linked up with Honey âMoneyâ Chandler, we really want to see what season 3 makes of Maddie Bosch. She is smart and eager as a police officer. Maddie deserves to find more solid footing within the LAPD, independent of any police work nepo-baby connections.
Sex and Skin: None, though it is commented on how âbuffâ Bosch looks in retirement.
Parting Shot: From the look of whatâs to come on the final season of Bosch: Legacy, we can expect Honey Chandlerâs campaign for district attorney to get more aggressive, add more names to the list of people who want to shoot Harry, keep track of Maddieâs moves on the beat, and bring the whole thing into the station with Boschâs encounter of a brand new player.
Sleeper Star: You know itâs always been Mo. Stephen Chang plays Maurice âMoâ Bassi with an astute chillness that always makes him a valuable asset, whether heâs hacking computer systems or backing up Bosch in the field.
Most Pilot-y Line: âCop gossip. Worse than a fucking schoolyard. I told you, I had nothing to do with it.â As the final season of Legacy begins, Boschâs connection to the Kurt Dockweiler murder is still being sorted out. Â
Our Call: Stream It! As the first Bosch spinoff comes to a series close, Bosch: Legacy aims for a satisfying conclusion for Hieryonymous âHarryâ Bosch, Maddie Bosch, and Honey âMoneyâ Chandler, even as it sets up whatâs next for the entirety of this Los Angeles-based small screen universe.
Johnny Loftus (@johnnyloftus.bsky.social) is a Chicago-based writer. A veteran of the alternative weekly trenches, his work has also appeared in Entertainment Weekly, Pitchfork, The All Music Guide, and The Village Voice.
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