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I'm enjoying it......

posted 2 years ago by TruMovieFan (1968)
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I'm actually enjoying this series more than I thought I would.

A bunch of good actors and good stories dramatized pretty well. It is great to see Neve Campbell back in a series (and even better that she has seemed to have lost that bizarre squint/smirk/tilt of the head she used to use too much when younger).

Elliott Gould even shows up. It is also good to see one of the actors that portrayed the one psychotic brother from one of the seasons of Fargo (the Wisconsin season) in a good role.

Another thing is people are more than likely going to complain about Micky Haller being Hispanic. Still, the creators have deftly dealt with that and the actor playing Haller is doing a fabulous job

Now, the interesting thing will be if there is any mention of Haller's half-brother Harry Bosch (though one problem with that may be an age issue).

[–] ExTechOp (2751) 2 years ago

Another thing is people are more than likely going to complain about Micky Haller being Hispanic. Still, the creators have deftly dealt with that and the actor playing Haller is doing a fabulous job

Uncle Ruckus just replied too this in another thread:

From Wikipedia: Haller's mother was born in Mexico, and in The Fifth Witness, Haller himself says that he looks "more south of the border than north."

I didn't know this myself and didn't much care either way, but good to know the too-Woke-whiners are preempted.

[–] TruMovieFan (1968) 2 years ago

Thank you for adding this. I completely forgot that and I ve even read a couple of the Haller books.

[–] McQualude (4231) 2 years ago

I binged it in a week. Well written and very well acted with a top-notch cast.

[–] RoboReCop (2707) 2 years ago

Thanks! Now on my to-watch list :)

[–] mobocracy (845) 2 years ago

Wow, I didn't realize that the two universes were connected, although I know they were both written by the same author.

The larger problem with any Harry Bosch stories set in the present is that Bosch is now in his 70s due to his dated Vietnam service. They sort of gloss over this in the Amazon series by making Bosch close to retirement age, but honestly he's still 20 years younger than the book character.

Plus, we'd never get a cross-over because Amazon holds the rights to the Bosch character now and Lincoln.. was a Netflix production. But if Netflix could pull it off somehow (maybe Michael Connelly retains full rights to the characters?), they could always do a reboot of Bosch's character as like an Afghan/Iraq war veteran vs. Vietnam, which lets them get away with a character in his late 40s/early 50s.

Oddly no one has mentioned the age issue with the Haller actor and Neve Campbell. She's close to 10 years older in real life and it seems pretty obvious in the show she looks older. No complaints, I didn't think about it while watching the show, but its unusual to see an older actress paired with a younger actor as a love interest.

[–] rushington (728) 10 months ago

I don't read books but I'm enjoying this one so far, it looks like one of those early millenium legal dramas.