Abandonment: 3 episodics we're no longer following

Generally I post only on TV series when I’ve committed to watching at least a whole season, but there are quite a few episodics that I start and know, sometimes by the first episode, that I’m not interested, for one reason or another, we abandon ship. There are so many great TV episodics out there, why not move on when a series is boring, disheartening, or just plain dumb? (Same principle holds for reading novels.) Here are quick notes on 3 that I’ve abandoned. First, Bosch, despite strong recommendation from friend AW w/ whom I almost always agree. Series creator Michael Connelly is well-known as the crime-novelist who pretty much owns LA, but from this series it seems to me that what works in a novel doesn’t translate directly to screen. Despite a pretty good opening chase scene, the series quickly declines into a very ordinary police procedural, with all the too-frequent flaws of the genre: highly improbable clues that turn up in just the right places, completely absurd depction of media coverage, and no capacity whatsoever to develop a romantic relationship: the dialogue between Bosch and the female cop he hooks up with is practically comic in its ineptitude. Add to that the failure to devel B’s personality as a cop who plays by his own rules etc. (compare this w/ McNulty in the Wire and you’ll see the difference between cliché and character), and after 2 episodes I’m out. Then there’s the Netflix Jillian Anderson as Belfast detective series, The Fall, which revolves around a deranged serial killer his stalks women, kills them, paints their nails, and goes home and hides locks of hair and other mementos an an alcove in his daughter’s bedroom. Nice family guy – and a therapist to boot! Happens all the time. Sure. Next? Finally, a special case, the Broitish series Peaky Blinders about a gang that controlled crime in Birmingham in the year after the First World War, and that touches on the conflicts among various groups, including the British and Irish police, the IRA, the radical workers groups, and various ethnic communities. I found this one pretty gripping and satisfyingly complex, much like Boardwalk Empire, but my viewing partner found it too graphically violent, so we’re out on this one, too. Would add that the title – the name of the street gang – is the stupidest ever, sounds like a kids’ cartoon hero, and may be part of the reason nobody watches this series.