What Do I Do with My Favorite TV Cops?

If you have Amazon Prime (and yo, you should totally sign up for Amazon Prime if your budget allows it), then you’re familiar with their Pilot Season. Basically, Amazon gives you a handful of TV show pilots, lets Prime customers watch them all and then vote on what shows get a full order. Now, there are sources out there that say the process is a bit dubious and that Amazon knows exactly what it wants produce, but it’s at least a unique way of dealing with pilots and how television works. The point being, if a show does get the golden ticket via this process, the pilot is often aired and viewed much earlier than the rest of the season (or series). Bosch, a show executive produced by the author of the Henry Bosch novels Michael Connolly, was part of the pilot season in early 2014. It didn’t “win” the Amazon pilot sweepstakes (Golden Globe-winning Transparent did), but I was drawn to the show for various reasons. I’ve read just about all the Henry Bosch novels and most of the Mickey Haller books (brought into over-the-top glory by Matthew McConaughey in The Lincoln Lawyer). With Titus Welliver, who has been such a good character actor for so long, stars as the titular hero Bosch, flanked by Wire alums Lance Reddick and Jamie Hector (Marlo Stanfield went legit!), this show immediately had my interest.  The pilot, like most pilots, wasn’t that great, but I would’ve loved to see more of it and was disappointed it didn’t win. Amazon must have felt the same way, because they soon af…