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54 minutes ago, jessiebell said:
I did like the show. It certainly kept my interest. I don't get why they arrested Ballard - seems lilke no police work was done. Wouldn't the first thought be that it was someone in the cartel? Olivas was certainly a sleezy character.
I’m holding to my theory that you’re correct, the arrest wasn’t based upon police work and evidence although we did have her TV trope of police officers with their unique cars skid to a stop in front of Olivas’ house to attract witnesses’ attention. But it is boss work and Captain Berchem getting to Renée before she could do something stupid.
We had Olivas’ widow confront Detectives Ballard and Parker and she leaves the show with the ask Berchem as the last thing she hears. Everybody knew about Renée making an allegation of attempted rape, I don’t think anyone but Renée and Parker’s mom knows about her rape but Captain Berchem was advised to go beyond the local DA and Internal Affairs and bring the FBI in on the corruption case. Assuming he told her the case went far beyond Renée on her way out the door the LT Provenza, from The Closer/Major Crimes doctrine of its always family kicks in.
So we come back from a cliffhanger with a reason for Renée and Attorney Damani's becoming closer friends beyond by some random chance of her case meets his client again.
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3 hours ago, paigow said:
24 swapped out CTU directors [and moles] pretty much every season... Jack never had a regular field partner...
Essentially, Shepherd and Finau are proxies for Chloe & Tony - nobody else needs to be retained. Next season can occur a week or month after Volchek is neutralized to handwave medical issues...
I'm reading that Ackles/Meacham brings a fan base but they have written his fast approaching death into the character
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15 minutes ago, AZChristian said:
I'm a real fan of the books, movies and tv shows about Bosch, The Lincoln Lawyer and/or Ballard. A slight variance from the plot, or even a few added characters from the written page to the screen is fine.
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To totally change "who done it" between the book and the show is a bit much. Especially in this story.
Unlike Lincoln Lawyer and Bosch I didn't get from any of the marketing that the plot was taken from a novel instead of just taking characters for the adaptation
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36 minutes ago, MagicEyes said:
They really need to screen people better before they're on this show.
They did screen people better, look at the first seasons compared to the follow on ones. Except for the death this is exactly what they wanted
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14 hours ago, Lantern7 said:
Superman does not kill. Now . . . Hawkgirl letting the Foreign T***p expy fall to his death? Debatable.
I think they went too far in Superman could visualize he had time to save a squirrel amongst the major disasters. But too make that work Metropolis was able to evacuate the void as if they had a well exercised plan and nobody resisted to stay at home.
Now of course in the late 60s cartoons, my major experience with DC heroes the Hawk people could only go so far but my only recent experience with them was on Black Adam and when the dictator was leaning into, he would be let go to try again I could see the vigilante justice taking place just before Gunn had her do it.
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With the few cases of the week/episode intermixed with the larger conspiracy the construction played more like Lincoln Lawyer on Netflix, capped off the cliffhanger. Hopefully season 2 begins with an immediate release just as the captain ordered an immediate arrest just to keep Renée out of more trouble. I did ask myself did we ever find out if Javi surviewed being attacked.
With so much time remaining after Gary’s escape I was wondering if we were getting a short finale episode, not 2 of the 3 cameos. When “Gary’s here” attack at Ahmanson I was thinking it was going to be an Olivas was here attack. You would think a police academy would have a duty officer on the desk 24/7 just in case someone saw the building and ran in for help or to drop off a baby Gael.
At the funeral for Rawls given his contacts and hiring mercenaries and veterans from all over the world, I would have expected to see other uniforms besides LAPD like we normally see in real life.
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“After the apocalypse all that will be left are cockroaches and cop shows”
J. Edgar takes a elevator ride
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That was an abrupt rolling up of Montana/Olivas’ cartel cell. Santos wasn’t James Bond and fell in love with his mark so that accounts for his lying to Montana. When Rawls office turned out to be the offsite I was expecting Bosch’s office. With the cell gone so are the cameos, I guess. Though they did tease with a different Sergeant from Hollywood Division being Laffont’s friend.
I had the captions on so I figured out oh the dog. When I first was hearing “Lola” I had thought Renée was using another grandmother term interchangeably with Tutu
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“You gotta be fucking kidding me.” H.F.B. and Mo working the dirty cops finds the rapist is part of the cartel’s cell. I am guessing the young cop who lied to Montana was a directly embedded into LAPD and not a cop who turned to the dark side.
Since Robbery-Homicide went ahead and seized the serial killer case I think they should have time jumped a bit more for the case of the week. The end thou with the team tradition of putting the now closed case file box away was straight from Cold Case.
While Bosch and Mo will eventually let Ballard fly free, I guess Damani the defense attorney remains a part in future seasons
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I hate the “I must be the one to break the case” storylines. This was complete with a countdown clock. And with a city councilman who flips and wants Ballard’s three detectives and his play acting friend to run a serial killer case of his sister.
I would expect the BAU’s Gulfstream to be in the air with a team of profilers. Captain Berchem had been good boss before the 72 hour thing. And then with the extension to keep the stink of a bad conviction off of ¿the department?, the extension played like a boss from The Wire.
Baywatch boyfriend talking Renée through field surgery only to have the guy suicide in front of her was insane. By all the is right I should watch the next episode with Ballard on administrative leave and Robbery-Homicide taking the case anyway the extension should be timed out.
Not only is Hollywood Division a nest of bad cops there is a Deputy Sheriff and nurse in the County’s jail. I wonder how many protected witnesses they have seen killed on their watch..
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31 minutes ago, AZChristian said:
In the books, she pretty much lives/sleeps on the beach in a tent and has the dog (with water) in the tent while she's surfing.
Bosch's house went down for earthquake rehab. I wonder where Renée and Tutu go because of the 2025 wild fires if the show continues.
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The volunteers all are on hand for the search which turned up the trophy case of little coffins was kind of weird. Like a gruesome payoff for giving their time for free. I guess nobody said you had to maintain destruction records in any kind of order. Surely neither the DMV or the CHP checks on the junk yard. But you think at this point everybody goes in on the search for an identified serial killer, not some small unit of a regular and three volunteer cops exiled to the second police academy
With the search for Trish I felt for the mother not knowing that she could have only given exact GPS coordinates to make it easy to find her daughter. They didn’t even waste any time to show a search just having Parker interview her.
LAPD has a serial rapist detective in Robbery-Homicide, I guess his victims are the few detectives that turned up in his unit. With the flashback of Parker as his happy partner in the car the conversation at Renée’s hurt.
Why James Bond Jr. lied to Montana about “Ibarra” all over the murder board has got me stumped. With rapist cops and another doing jobs for a cartel maybe the kid is a double agent
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1 hour ago, dleighg said:
Somehow I thought Titus Welliver wasn't associated with this. (I haven't quite finished the episode). I heard "Harry's" voice and thought "man, that's a good imitation of Titus.
LOL I guess he is associated with it. Maybe I was thinking of Lincoln Lawyer.
Detective Ballard played by Maggie Q. was introduced on Bosch: Legacy
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31 minutes ago, dleighg said:
First episode isn't bad. But she wears makeup to surf???
You never know when someone might wash up on the beach.
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A Crate and Barrel cameo. Barrel was Renée’s ex partner’s detective trainer. It does seem like Castain committed an official look the other way suicide before Renée got a chance to forgive him.
Reserve Officer Rawls is tied to the councilman, that explains his part time free gig but is seem like still a boot by the other three detectives. Does Parker make enough on security/bouncer gigs as Rawls does in his small business owners role to survive? Is she at home taking care of her disabled father
It was a good thing they didn’t string out Javi’s I.D. of Montana there not being that many White officers on the modern LAPD. But a retired Lieutenant seems to still be running a real life Rampart, fictional The Shield as Intern Martina is sure to drop something to his spy.
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On 7/10/2025 at 9:16 AM, Mindthinkr said:
Ballard is trying to get over more than her issues with her fellow police officers. Hence Tutu giving her the build your own board. Something I presume she did with her father.
It does beg the question of what happened to the so far unmentioned mother. Renée's surf break lifeguard its complicated right now relationship looking for another round and being invited to breakfast with the grandmother as is, is not like anything I've seen before
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4 hours ago, paigow said:
Shepherd: This consulate cannot be hacked from the outside... except the guest list
Maybe I missed it but did SAC Blythe get authorization from anyone to pull off an international black operation? As always I hate the "eliteness" of TV characters. Mom's impressed by the FBI and mentions her son is a squad leader of 82nd Airborne paratroopers and we have the immediate one upper of Meachum's being with the Ranger Regiment.
So is Countdown in the same universe as The Rookie with its Los Angeles District Attorney working out of L.A. City Hall. I guess the County's Hall of Administration wasn't cinematic enough.
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This felt like a fast case of the week that the Lincoln Lawyer has as their format. The “hot” cold case’s root not being hazing that all suspected but being sex did link into the Renée story.
It turns out Olivas wasn’t making peace, but he won a sexual harassment case and now most of the department won’t back up Ballard. His willingness to make peace was actually gloating like the frat boy who got murdered for it.
The wake up montage does start introducing us to the squad. Laffont is gay, Rawls has a security company and stays on extended reserve duty as a “homicide detective” for the street credibility it gives his company. I do wonder how he heard about the cold case unit being formed and who steered him towards it.
I wonder where the young bent cop going undercover at the intern will end up.
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We ended episode 1 with "Harry funking Bosch", the recap gave us just "Harry Bosch".
Valley homicide detective gets all so territorial but then Renée does the same with Harry. It was seemingly like he was going to voice act when he showed up
Is Rawls some rich guy who just doesn’t want to be on rotating shifts? For Bosch to crack about her building her dream team out at Ahmanson he seems like someone forced on the unit more than he was the only volunteer. At least the stalker councilman should be out of the way now that his prime suspect has been cleared by DNA.
The ending with no doubt about a police conspiracy and Ballard’s trauma coming from being left out without backup to surviving a duty related rape attempt just begs for this to be a binged show. But duty calls for me as I'm not a reservist/volunteer who can call his own hours, yet.
However the R.H.D. Captain Berchem seemed like a good guy, I hope it isn't a front. The rest of the squad shown seemed bad, maybe they get redeemed Detective Olivas seemed like he wanted to make peace.
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Just by chance I happened to be doing a watch of Body of Proof and Ballard’s partner looks exactly like he did as Philadelphia homicide detective Bud did 15 years ago. Coming right on the heels of Dept Q. with a similar politician set up a cold case squad story it plays more like New Tricks without comedy. Instead of all retired cops we have reserve officers double dipping and a civilian volunteer.
I think this is the first time I’ve seen the other LAPD academy as a setting for a show. Being on the outskirts of the city limits instead of right in the middle like the one in the hills we have seen since Adam-12 and The Rookies opening credits. It does fit the theme of Ballard being outcast.
Maybe we could have gotten more of the trauma inducing case from a year ago that got the councilman's interest. Was that the Bosch: Legacy finale?
“I’ve never seen such a neat murder book” Of course Harry Fucking Bosch.
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1 hour ago, Vermicious Knid said:
And she won her gold medal when the entire Soviet block was boycotting the Olympics and the best gymnasts weren't there. Which people usually forget or deliberately ignore.
People ignored the politics hanging over all the Olympic champions of 1984. But then my older brother actually made the 1980 Olympic team and also lost his chance due to politics.
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11 minutes ago, roamyn said:
I believe HIPPA laws prevent any medical personnel to disclose any history without express written consent by the patient.
The weird thing is with the 9 months undercover as a prisoner (that's about how long Vinnie Terranova was under in Wiseguy) the prison would have to know for him to receive treatment. And if the prison doctors who treats him knew then the warden and guards who take him to treatment know. And the warden has to be worried about losing an officer under his care even if the sick officers bosses in the LAPD didn't care.
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2 hours ago, Colorado David said:
i cant recall how old reed is in the comics, but i do remember him having grey streaks in his hair. comic fans, help me out?
Stan Lee would never give an age. Fans estimate that at the time of the early 1960s debut Reed Richards would be in his late 30s while Peter Parker/Spider-Man who was tied to high school was 15.
All the promos seem to suggest that the bulk of the movie will not be a first mission origin but take place with a very experienced Fantastic Four
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The Good Old Days: The Things We Miss In the Modern TV Era - And The Ones We Don't
in Everything Else TV
Peace on earth, goodwill towards men that's not. The Battle of Rorke's Drift which it is a docudrama of wasn't a Christmas or its eve battle.