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Things wrong with season 7


1. "Incels" are the enemy of the belabored lesbian LT.
2. Harry has a heart for kids; we know this. But suddenly he is willing to throw away multiple other cases over one kid. Never mind that he sees unjust kid deaths weekly in his job. Never mind the kids who have been killed by the big mafiosos in that bust he botched.
3. They beat the drum of Jerry's PTSD over and over for half the season only to wrap it up with no impact/consequence. His PTSD arc meant nothing.
4. Irving's crisis baby meant nothing. Worthless.
5. Irving didn't actually do anything wrong but they try so hard to force him into some ill-imagined villain role.
6. Intensified immigrant appreciation script too obvious in an election year. Cringy lines in mischaracterizations that may as well have been dubbed over with someone else's voice.
7. Mad's new boyfriend. Why? Worthless. They should have continued the bumpy relationship she had with the lawyer guy.
8. That stupid Tamale Girl ran upstairs instead of down.
9. In an effort to develop a character, they simply refer to a character from another show. "She's like whatshername from the Wire"
10. The big wrap-up of who killed who and who ordered it turns out to be exactly what they were speculating for three of the 8 episodes and played out in sleepy, unexciting fashion.
11. Saaawnya Hernandez. Oh God, I'm going to cry. Say her name!

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12. Bosch just has to say her name to a few FBI people and they think he must be right ... they must torpedo a huge bust and let big criminal bosses escape justice over the justice of a smaller case.
13. Awkward trading of Jewish phrases by two people who don't sell it at all (Chandler and Frazen). What were they trying to do? It was weird. What was the point?
14. Hitman and his employers don't make any effort to acquire the original video. They kill for the thumb drives but not the original. smh.
15. Bosch up Jerry's ass over rules when we see Bosch bend rules for 6 seasons.
16. They ignore the leverage against Irving that they established the previous season.
17. They blame Jerry for outing Maddie as a witness but Maddie's face and name are on the thumb drive. It was never Jerry to blame. They see the video. Forced drama of CW level.

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"The Little Anchor Girl"

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1A. "DYKE SLUT" is the worst they could do? Can only recall her being in two long-term monogamous relationships over the whole show run.
13A. RE: everyone suddenly peppering their speech with Yiddish: Don't forget Det. Jimmy casually mangling macher and his partner saying "the whole schmear" while not even referring to bagel fixings.

19. The cartoonish eMe vatos who look like characters out of a Ricardo Tracy comic.
20. Maddie is in the potentially gravest peril of the whole show, from a "pro" even, and Bosch doesn't put a security detail on her until J. "outs" her.
21. Said pro's MO is two FMJ (non-expanding) 9mms "to the heart" all remaining in the chest and not only doesn't confirm his kills with a head shot, let alone even just a second glance in Honey's case.
22. Not to beat a dead horse, but they (really) asked for it: re: la niña poquita de los tamales, not only is the landlord's explanation that the emergency exit door's being locked is "the tenants' fault" somehow not easily torn apart, that "open and shut case" is referred to as being still "under investigation" to the unfriendly press by the chief several episodes later.

My guess is Amazon only let them do S07 if they slashed the budget, which caused them to lose the good writer(s) and all they could afford was some nebbish fresh from NYU.

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Yeah. I really liked the show but that last season is garbage. Election year TV is usually tedious and this was a blinding example. Lately the phenomenon creeps towards permanent.

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Haha as of this moment your post count is (6699). Nice.

And good grief, I binged the show last year so didn't even notice the correlation but that explains a lot, ugh. The midterm variant and riots are already being deployed FFS.

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