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Finished This City Is Ours. Excellent though I thought the end was a little unrealistic but don't want to post any spoilers!
 
NGP said:
Not sure if it has been mentioned, just finished Bosch on Prime. LA homicide cop. Good stuff, excellent supporting characters, especially his partner (the actor played Marlo in The Wire).
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The Bosch series is fantastic. I particularly enjoy it because it is filmed in Los Angeles and I love how they make LA look quite nice. The were a few episodes that showed Angels Flight in downtown LA. Started watch Bosch Legacy series three which is pretty good.
 
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BurbankHibee said:
The Bosch series is fantastic. I particularly enjoy it because it is filmed in Los Angeles and I love how they make LA look quite nice. The were a few episodes that showed Angels Flight in downtown LA. Started watch Bosch Legacy series three which is pretty good.
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I find it strangely soothing in a way I can't explain given the subject matter. I think you've perhaps nailed it here, LA which tbh I have never been particularly drawn too, look lovely in it.

There's also something about the pacing i dunno. But it always takes me ages to watch as it keeps lulling me to sleep lol
 
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BurbankHibee said:
The Bosch series is fantastic. I particularly enjoy it because it is filmed in Los Angeles and I love how they make LA look quite nice. The were a few episodes that showed Angels Flight in downtown LA. Started watch Bosch Legacy series three which is pretty good.
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Eh? You mean it's NO a gang infested, machine gun toting, shouty screamy place like we usually see with dead bodies laying everywhere and the polis shooting folk?

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egb_hibs said:
I find it strangely soothing in a way I can't explain given the subject matter. I think you've perhaps nailed it here, LA which tbh I have never been particularly drawn too, look lovely in it.
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The producers really do have a knack for making Los Angeles look pretty nice. I hardly recognise the place! Sometimes I am a bit harsh on the city of angels and watching Bosch gets me interested in the place. There's a scene that was filmed up at Lake Hollywood on top of the dam. It's hard to believe this beautiful, tranquil area is a stone's throw away from the 101 freeway. I have a love/hate relationship with Los Angeles, lol. It's great watching programs like Columbo or TJ Hooker and seeing familiar places.
 
BurbankHibee said:
The producers really do have a knack for making Los Angeles look pretty nice. I hardly recognise the place! Sometimes I am a bit harsh on the city of angels and watching Bosch gets me interested in the place. There's a scene that was filmed up at Lake Hollywood on top of the dam. It's hard to believe this beautiful, tranquil area is a stone's throw away from the 101 freeway. I have a love/hate relationship with Los Angeles, lol. It's great watching programs like Columbo or TJ Hooker and seeing familiar places.
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I don’t think I understand LA J. For example perhaps I’m reading too much into your phrasing but you talk of LA as if you are not in it, whereas I thought Burbank was. I don’t really get this ‘City of Burbank’ or ‘City of Compton’ type thing while these places are, I thought anyway, part of LA.

Is LA a city made up of cities or what? Or is it like a super scale Manchester where the actual city of Manchester is pretty wee, but greater Manchester rather big, and often people just refer to the latter as Manchester….
 
I would go for the Greater Manchester version. Using what I've read. Like going to Salford and saying your in Manchester isn't a good thing to do.
 
EH17 Jimmy said:
I would go for the Greater Manchester version. Using what I've read. Like going to Salford and saying your in Manchester isn't a good thing to do.
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Yes, I got quite surprise when I was on wander in Manchester and suddenly found myself confronted with a ‘welcome to Salford’ sign. But of course Man U provide an example of the point ; it should really be Salford United.
 
Aye and council signs all day City of Salford.

Apparently it was an even meaner place to visit back in the day than it is now.
 
EH17 Jimmy said:
Aye and council signs all day City of Salford.

Apparently it was an even meaner place to visit back in the day than it is now.
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Aye it’s a rough old place. TBH greater Manchester generally is the edgiest city I’ve spent time in in the UK. There’ll be far shadier places in the sticks I expect, but as far as major cities go that’s the only one where I ever felt I needed always to have my eyes open.
 
egb_hibs said:
Aye it’s a rough old place. TBH greater Manchester generally is the edgiest city I’ve spent time in in the UK. There’ll be far shadier places in the sticks I expect, but as far as major cities go that’s the only one where I ever felt I needed always to have my eyes open.
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Remember going into Possilpark in Glasgow in the early 90s. Could have done with air support. 😬
 
The schemes are madhooses down there from what I read.

All caught up in the gang culture. They even had two bits of the same scheme at war a while back in Moss Side. The Gooch and Dodington mobs.

Lots of shootings and death.
 
Sancho Panza said:
Remember going into Possilpark in Glasgow in the early 90s. Could have done with air support. 😬
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Been there in the same era, and....quite.

But thats a wee bit different, being a peripheral scheme. The Manc seems to have no real buffers between city centre and bandit country. It's like taking a turn off Buchanan Street and suddenly being in Saracen street
 
egb_hibs said:
I don’t think I understand LA J. For example perhaps I’m reading too much into your phrasing but you talk of LA as if you are not in it, whereas I thought Burbank was. I don’t really get this ‘City of Burbank’ or ‘City of Compton’ type thing while these places are, I thought anyway, part of LA.

Is LA a city made up of cities or what? Or is it like a super scale Manchester where the actual city of Manchester is pretty wee, but greater Manchester rather big, and often people just refer to the latter as Manchester….
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The city of Los Angeles is a city unto itself. Los Angeles county consists of a lot of different cities, like Burbank, Compton, Long Beach, Hollywood, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills etc. each city is autonomous and run by their city officials/council. They have their own police departments (Beverly Hills Cop!), sales tax and what not. Los Angeles County dictates property taxes though. I pay my property tax to LA County, not to Burbank. The city of Los Angeles is a pretty big area though.
 
Watching the documentary about the Kinahans Organised Crime Group on the iPlayer and this tune came on.

What a fantastic haunting song......


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BurbankHibee said:
The city of Los Angeles is a city unto itself. Los Angeles county consists of a lot of different cities, like Burbank, Compton, Long Beach, Hollywood, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills etc. each city is autonomous and run by their city officials/council. They have their own police departments (Beverly Hills Cop!), sales tax and what not. Los Angeles County dictates property taxes though. I pay my property tax to LA County, not to Burbank. The city of Los Angeles is a pretty big area though.
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Are they all connected by highways? I've always had this image of Hollywood being like crossing the road from Beverly Hills. Leith to Lochend type travel.

Never realised they were all separate cities.
 
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