Bosch (TV series)
American drama television series (2014-2021)
Bosch is an American police procedural television series produced by Amazon Studios and Fabrik Entertainment starring Titus Welliver as Los Angeles Police Department detective Harry Bosch. The show was developed for Amazon by Eric Overmyer, and the first season takes its inspiration from the Michael Connelly novels City of Bones (2002), Echo Park (2006), and The Concrete Blonde (1994). It was one of two drama pilots that Amazon streamed online in early 2014 (together with The After), and viewers offered their opinions on it before the studio decided whether to place a series order. The seventh and final season was released on June 25, 2021.
Two spin-off series have been produced and a third has been announced. Bosch: Legacy, a sequel series described by Welliver as "essentially Bosch season 8", premiered on May 6, 2022 on Amazon Freevee. Two additional seasons were released on Prime Video, the second of which premiered on October 20, 2023, the third and final on March 27, 2025. The second spinoff follows Detective Renée Ballard, whom Connelly introduced in the 2017 novel The Late Show. An announced prequel spinoff for MGM+, Bosch: Start of Watch, will detail a younger Bosch (Cameron Monaghan) at the start of his career with the LAPD.
Plot
Season 1
The first season follows LAPD detective Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) as he investigates two cases. The first is the murder of a 12-year-old boy whose bones were found in the Hollywood Hills.
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