It’s a solidly told whodunit with a payoff that’s worth your investment.

Bosch is by no means a revolutionary show like Amazon's "Transparent," but it offers smarter than usual cop drama fare, and it's certainly better than any cop show currently on a broadcast network.

Bosch’s dialogue is clunky at times, especially in scenes involving Bosch and his superiors. They look like somebody scolding a puppy and are hard to take very seriously. But the story is compelling.

It feels like a detective movie or TV show from another era.

If Bosch doesn't soar, it's solid enough, and if you like the series, you're just a click away from all the books.

Bosch, based on the best-selling Michael Connelly series of books, may not set the TV world on fire in terms of storytelling or innovation. It’s another cop show, after all, but it is a quality cop show.

Good casting and a strong sense of L.A. noir make the series watchable enough, but four episodes in, this page-turner feels undercooked.

Bosch does something that many crime, cop, detective shows don't: it remains compelling throughout the season and it doesn't suffer from a trite ending. In fact, Bosch is one of the few shows--along with Justified--where the dialog, story, visual aesthetics, even the opening sequence, set the tone really well. The whole show is realistic in a way that few are. There are no magical crime scene labs, no one has super powers, people rise and fall (and rise again) from grace, and most importantly, it highlights the arcane politicalness of being a Cop in a major city, that is really just trying to not look bad, ever. Can't wait for season 2.

Really good show. I definitely enjoyed the acting and the way there's a lot of suspense. It was really engrossing. i also liked the book series and this was a good adaption.

Better than most police shows. I will have to admit I was a little disappointed with the show. I had heard it was a great story, groundbreaking even. I wouldn’t say it was that good, and because of the hype I probably didn’t like it as much as I might have. Titus Welliver though is a good actor, and he is what does propel the story. He did keep me interested during the slower parts of the story. There is also a little bit of difference from the normal police procedural. Unlike shows like “Blue Blood” who are families of cops, and have no idea what it is like to not be a cop (because the writers are so far up the “blue line” ass they don’t know reality), this shows cops that are not up for being in the job and that Bosch himself will do the right thing. He doesn’t really pull the “think blue line” too much, and I did appreciate that. Pros: Good acting overall, some interesting bits in the story. Cons: Way overhyped. This was what made the negative issues that much larger. It was good enough I will watch season 2.

You'd be forgiven for thinking Bosch is set in some near-future Los Angeles where Donald Trump is President, and he's followed through with his mass-deportation plans such is the dearth of Latino actors in the show. For the record, 40% of cops employed by LAPD are Hispanic, yet in Bosch's office, they're almost all white or black. In the real world 12% of LAPD are black, though they are vastly overrepresented in the show. Aside from the glaring and annoying omission of Hispanic actors, the scripts tread the well-worn path of having a well-into-middle-age male lead romantically involved with a woman young enough to be his daughter. Further stretching the viewer's suspension of disbelief, Bosch is depicted living it large in a home high in the hills with a city-view which would cost many millions to own, apparently due to his involvement with a trashcan B movie. All that said, it's fairly entertaining, routine cop drama, and Welliver puts in competent and reliable performances as Bosch.

The pilot gives the impression that the producers were going for a feel of the movie "Drive". I was hoping this to turn out to be something like The Killing or Southland mixed with these noir elements, but got more and more disappointed as the show progressed. The quality is somewhere near a good made-for-TV movie but far from what the critics are saying. The final is probably where it hit its low. Very predictable especially in the episodes leading up to the final in the second half of the season.