There’s no slow build as the Freevee series “Bosch: Legacy” begins its second season Friday with two incredibly intense episodes that make for one wild and wildly nerve-jangling ride.
The first season ended with the discovery that a sadistic serial rapist on the loose was targeting Bosch’s daughter Maddie (Madison Lintz), a rookie cop. Season 2 begins as she’s kidnapped and buried in a box with limited air. A desperate if determined Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) will move heaven and earth trying to rescue her.
That unrelenting pace is why these first two episodes will be released in 180 markets as a movie.
“I know some audience members were frustrated, I hope in a really good, delicious way, with our cliffhanger at the end of Season 1. So we wanted to immediately get into that,” explained Tom Bernardo, the series’ showrunner.
“And do it in a way that we haven’t done before, which was treat our first two episodes structurally and dramatically as if they were a compressed story. A movie right unto itself. We wanted it to feel nightmarish, intense, impossible.
While “Legacy” continues the series inspired by Michael Connelly’s bestselling Bosch books it’s become its own thing.
“The heartbeat of this series is this relationship between a father and his daughter, and how it evolves because their life changes,” Bernardo said. “This is the most intense, horrifying thing that has ever happened to Bosch in the life of our series.
“So, what are the consequences as his daughter survives? People who survive something like that are different afterwards, and they carry something with them. What does that mean? And mean now with their relationship?
“What does it mean as a father who has to wake up and whose worst nightmare almost happened? And now he has to see his daughter go out there, back onto the streets of LA in law enforcement where he knows the dangers.
“Those questions were really interesting for us to talk about dramatically.”
The series third star, Mimi Rogers’ lawyer Honey “Give me the Money” Chandler. A key element in “Legacy,” Chandler was featured in just one of the 24 Bosch books – and killed off.
“At this point, the great thing — and the challenge — is these characters have naturally become something different in our story world,” Bernardo acknowledged. “So it’s fun to figure out what’s going to happen. Which books can we do — if any?
“And to be clear, these first two hours’ situation that includes Bosch going to the morgue secretly to see what’s going on, that’s all been invented for the series. That is not Michael Connelly. We invented all of it.”
“Bosch: Legacy S2” streams on Freevee Friday
