Musings on a Friday During the Pandemic

Oh, we are halfway there.

Provided of course that "there" is the end of May.  Technically speaking, at or about noon tomorrow we will officially be halfway to the month's end but given the somewhat amorphous nature of time with which we are presently wrestling, it is best not to split hairs. 

I have no idea how you spend your leisure time and I promise you that I am not inviting you to tell me.  However, if you own a television and turn it on every now and again then might I suggest that you familiarize yourself with Bosch on Amazon Prime.  Titus Welliver portrays Michael Connelly's titular character, a Detective in the Los Angeles Police Department about whom Connelly has written more than twenty novels.  Connelly helped create the television series and through six seasons and sixty episodes has remained intimately involved with it. 

If you have read a number of Connelly's Bosch novels, as I have, then I believe you will enjoy this show quite a lot.  If you have never read a single page of any of them and, furthermore, had never heard of the books or the character before you sat down to watch your first episode of show, then I believe you will enjoy this show quite a lot.  I offer my wife, Margaret, as an example of such a viewer.  Thirty days ago, she knew Bosch solely as a maker of quite excellent power tools.  Now? She's hooked. 

Earlier this year, pre-pandemic, Amazon announced that the next season of Bosch, its seventh, shall be its final one. At this point, it is anyone's guess when production shall begin on it and, more importantly, when it will be available to view.  Take it from me, try to pace yourself while watching the first six seasons.  Sixty episodes sounds like a lot...until you start to binge them.  Then?  Not so much. 

Without giving away a damn thing about the show, but perhaps piquing your interest regarding the manner in which it is crafted, I leave you with this extraordinary version of "What a Wonderful World", which plays as an accompaniment to the very last scene of Season 6...

-AK