I watched Bosch. On the whole, it was solid.  4/5 or 8/10

They made the male lead a little too good-looking (in a Clooney-esque way, but without that Bosch has in the books) and much too well-dressed. Most detectives don't look that good or wear Rolex Submariners; maybe they do in L.A.? But he acted the part well so I suppose it doesn't matter.

PS The novel City of Bones (2002) is a much more straightforward story than the TV version, which borrows from two other Bosch novels, Echo Park (2006) and the Concrete Blonde (1994). That was a mistake: adding a serial killer to the story only serves to confuse.

Some of us were brought up on the original British version and find the new Spaceyfied version more difficult to return to.

Some of us were brought up on the original British version and find the new Spaceyfied version more difficult to return to.

I have the UK version on the queue and look forward to it.  But I do like the US version, in spite of Spacey, he is a bit hammey and his accent is hard to take.  Plus it's pretty gay.

Seven Days. Late '90s Sci-Fi schlock. The premise of the show is that the government (a secret branch specifically) has developed the technology to travel back in time seven days, which is used to prevent major disasters that have already happened by sending an agent in a well, time machine. New episode each week, new disaster, bit of comedy and anti-hero protagonist- all pretty straightforward.



It's entertaining, but the show suffers from terrible logic (if that's the correct word). For example, one episode has them discovering another time machine that's arrived from the future, but its advanced power source is destroyed shortly before the episode ends. Somehow they don't think to just go back seven days from then and secure the machine before it breaks, allowing them access to the power source.

Babylon. On the opposite end of the tongue-in-cheek spectrum of A Touch of Cloth, focusing on Scotland Yard. It's good, but can jump from lighthearted parody to seriousness as the season goins on, though it's executed well enough.