By Dustin Rowles | TV | April 21, 2025
Bosch: Legacy wrapped up last week much the same way it’s carried itself for the past eleven years, ever since it premiered as Bosch: matter-of-factly. After seven seasons of Bosch and three seasons of Bosch: Legacy, the Titus Welliver character closed a few more cases, waded through some moral ambiguity, and ended with a backdoor pilot for the Renée Ballard spin-off, Ballard, starring Maggie Q.
If it didn’t feel like a proper series finale, there’s a reason for that. The show was canceled several months after Prime Video filmed season three, but before it aired, so it wasn’t written as an ending. No major characters die. There are no fireworks. Just Bosch being Bosch. It felt weirdly appropriate.
This season juggled several storylines. Jimmy Robertson, a fellow detective and friend of Harry’s, investigated Bosch for the prison killing of Kurt Dockweiler, the man who abducted and nearly killed Harry’s daughter, Maddie, last season. While under investigation, Bosch also took on a case involving a former cop he once arrested and whom Honey Chandler had prosecuted. That ex-cop was now stalking Chandler, threatening to derail her campaign for Los Angeles District Attorney. She still won, but only after Bosch shot the stalker dead.
Once Bosch and Robertson cleared Bosch’s name — he’d been framed — Robertson was murdered. Bosch had to solve that case, too. Turns out, the hit was ordered by a drug cartel boss. Meanwhile, Bosch also investigated a season-long mystery involving a missing family of four. He and an old friend eventually tracked down the killer in Mexico, where said friend took care of business.
On a separate track, Maddie Bosch and her partner, Reina Vasquez, spent the season chasing a string of robberies that eventually pointed to Reina’s nephew. That created some personal conflict, but Vasquez ultimately chose duty over family.
In the series finale, Harry teamed up with Renée Ballard to solve one of Jimmy Robertson’s old cold cases. It led them to a former firefighter who had been quietly killing women for years. Ballard is more by-the-book, but she and Bosch worked well together, well enough that it’d be nice to see Bosch pop up in the spin-off now and again. Or better yet, Prime Video could come to its senses and revive the series, setting it in a retirement community where Bosch solves murders that were originally ruled natural causes. Call it: Bosch: The Villages.
In the meantime, Maggie Q’s spin-off series Ballard is expected to premiere sometime this summer.
