Just realized why I like Bosch so much. It’s the basic police procedural but in infinite game form. Cases don’t just end with the bad guy getting caught. They drag on through complications in subsequent seasons. A subplot in current season is a 20y old case being scam-reopened .
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Also title character and others are all true grinders they have mutual histories going back decades, and keep grinding on. The title character’s nickname is grinder. The backstory is “live” in a way, not just convenient lazy characterization. It is entangled with the present.
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Haven’t watched it yet, but Netflix thinks I should.
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