It's the theme song of Bosch (written by Jesse Nolan, performed by Caught a Ghost) because it's the story of Bosch's professional life. It's animated every season in this best cop drama ever on television, and never more so than in it's seventh and final season on Amazon Prime Video.
What Bosch can't let go of is satisfying his profound sense of justice, or bringing to justice the perpetrators of the murders he's investigating and haunted by, or haunted by and investigating. In season seven, the victim is a 10-year old girl who dies in a deliberately set fire.
The eight-episode season is powerful and memorable for other reasons, too. Episode six contains one of the most intense short shoot-outs I've seen on any screen. Paul Calderon is practically shaking with tension and fear as his Jimmy Robertson tries to protect Bosch's beloved daughter Maddie from a skilled hitman who has just taken out a judge who is Bosch's current lover. The acting, by the way, is superb on the part of every character, both in this scene and the entire series.
Titus Welliver in the title role gives the performance of his career. Jamie Hector as Bosch's partner Jerry Edgar may be even more than impressive than he was as Marlo in The Wire, which is the biggest compliment in my book, in case you didn't know what I think of The Wire. Speaking of The Wire, Lance Reddick is always good, and he's as good as ever in Bosch. I've seen Amy Aquino in a few prior series, but she became an essential character in Bosch. Madison Lintz has really grown into her crucial part as Bosch's daughter, and I'm looking forward to seeing her in the Bosch spinoff.
Bosch began on Amazon at the dawn of our age of streaming, and helped establish it. The series went out every bit as strong as it began, something you can't say about every great series. Similarly, it kept a consistency of character and focus, something you can't say about too many things, period, in this our uncertain age. But I'm certain I'll be watching the Bosch spinoff, and I'll see you back here with a review of that when it's up on Amazon.
See also Bosch: First Half: Highly Recommended ... Bosch: Second Half as Fine as the First ... Bosch Season 2: Dragnet with Uber ... Bosch 3: Best Season So Far ... Bosch 4: Delivering and Transcending the Genre ... Bosch 5: Room with a Killer View ... Bosch Season 6: The Best Police on Television ...
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