Don't Say It's The End Of the World -- Friday Video Distractions with Mike Norton
Last Friday the seventh and final season of Bosch arrived on Amazon Prime. The show's been a contemporized adaptation of Michael Connelly's series of novels focused on the homicide detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch. Bosch is a champion of overlooked and forgotten victims, taking a personal interest in solving the homicide cases of those who had little to no agency in life. Much of the reason for this lies in his own background, as his mother was a prostitute who was murdered, the case left unsolved, leaving Harry with a hellish childhood that he only escaped at age 17 by getting his then-current foster parent to sign permissions to let him go into the military. A fresh start, in an environment where everyone was stripped down and rebuilt, where aggression and violence were officially, professionally part of the equation, and could be refined. I've often remarked that Harry isn't someone...