How Ballard Mashes Up the Bosch Universe

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Spoilers follow for the first season of Ballard, all ten episodes of which premiered on July 9 on Prime Video. 

It’s a day ending in y, so time for another show about cops! This one is Ballard, a spinoff of Bosch: Legacy, which was itself a spinoff of Bosch, the Prime Video series based on crime writer Michael Connelly’s dozens of novels about the titular LAPD detectives Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch. Ballard stars Maggie Q as the dogged and empathetic investigator...