Extremely weak.
The 2 x main story lines was very uninteresting. Somewhat underdeveloped and poorly told.
The sub plots: The Daughter, The Retirement, The butcher of Haiti, The Dog, Running for Mayor, The body parts was just tossed in there to beef up the "long told" season 5. I love Bosch but this was the weakest yet.
Yes, unfortunately.
shareAbsolutely the weakest of all seasons. The whole idea of moving junkies around to clinics and pharmacies seemed extremely thin. And Bosch undercover was not convincing. He looked too well fed, tan and healthy. All the sub plots went nowhere. The daughter could have been interesting, but was more or less a filler, same with her uninteresting boyfriend.
sharehe looks really unhealthy, old, haggard, tired,
he fit in well with the junkies, especially the one he had a crush on
Definitely the weakest season. Bosch should be the main character but it didn't feel like it this season.
shareGlad to see I'm not the only one who thought Season 5 was the weakest so far.
Though at first the problem I had (so thought it was only me) was that up until Season 5 they've been kind of using rather old books and starting from years ago and moving forward. Having read every book starting way back when they came out in the early 90s some of these stories were now "new" to me again when the show started back at the beginning of the series and was working forward. With the old stories and new twists to them, it was like watching something for the first time and it was great.
But for some reason this past year they jumped past a LOT of books and used a rather recent one, by comparison to ones over 10-20 years old--and it was Harry going undercover in the pills scam.
Unfortunately for me anyway, which took away from the season feeling "fresh" again, was that I'd just finished that book on my ipod a few months before the series aired.
That's why I thought maybe season 5's weaknesses were just me---because I'd just listened to the pills scam book very recently so it was just not a mystery at all about who dunnit and why.
There are SO many great books between the ones they left off with for Seasons 3 and 4. Wish they had not jumped into such a recent book, bypassing many that are worthy of the filmed series.
Might have something to do with the wife's character and Maddie. But they've managed to make those things work in the new timeline they have for Harry in the tv series. In the books he was a Vietnam vet, because the books began in the early 90s etc.
Here's hoping season 6 is better. Waiting a whole year in excitement to be let down is a bummer, ha.
Oh and another thing I found pushing me away from the series was the other book/story they used about the gangsters. Harry turned the house where his daughter lives into a slaughterhouse shoot out blood bath. He's a danger and is toxic to his daughter. I'm losing the love. Ugh.
I haven't read the books but even still I can tell there is a jarring change in the storyline.
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