Hulu’s 44-Episode Detective Thriller Is the Perfect ‘Bosch’ Replacement

Image via Amazon MGM Published Sep 2, 2026, 7:18 AM EDT Rotten Tomatoes | Letterboxd | Metacritic Carolyn Jenkins is a voracious consumer of film and television. She graduated from Long Island University with an MFA in Screenwriting and Producing where she learned the art of character, plot, and structure. The best teacher is absorbing media and she spends her time reading about different worlds from teen angst to the universe of Stephen King. Sign in to your Collider account There is no shortage of grizzled detective series, but Titus Welliver’s show Bosch seems to have the secret sauce that fans gravitate to. The Deadwood actor stars as the titular police detective who balances a messy personal life with a harrowing case that takes his attention. Bosch was so popular that after the flagship show’s conclusion, Bosch’s story continued in Bosch: Legacy, which continued the story. The template that made Bosch such a success applies to its natural successor, The Killing. Adapted from the Danish television series, the AMC show also follows a complicated detective in an iconic setting. While Bosch takes place in the sun-soaked streets of Los Angeles, The Killing takes place in a bleak and rain-slicked Seattle. This sets up the harrowing story of Rosie Larson’s (Katie Findlay) death and the tragic circumstances surrounding it. ‘The Killing’ Puts a Spotlight On Its Messy Heroine Showing the realities that female detectives go through has become more common with the popularity of shows like Mare of Easttown, but The Killing did it first. Mireille Enos stars as Detective Sarah Linden, a detective torn between her fiancé and finding justice for a murdered high school girl, Rosie. Even though she is due to hand over the case to Detective Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman) and move to California, the specifics of the mystery keep her from joining her fiancé in another state. Linden reflects the pathology that many detectives are guilty of. Striving for answers negatively impacts her personal life, as it so often does with grizzled detectives with a haunted past. Female detectives don’t always get the same attention as their male counterparts, but The Killing shows Linden is just as complex and dark as any other. Her obsessiveness over cases in the past caused her to almost lose her son. This obsessiveness rears its head again, threatening to destroy her relationship with someone she promised to marry. Like in many other detective stories, the detective's single-mindedness is an asset to Rosie, whose death demands justice. The Killing is the type of story to champion the story of victims and not just paint Rosie as an anonymous dead girl. The more clues Linden and Holder find, the harder it is to look away. Rosie is found in the trunk of a car that was submerged in a lake. She suffered to her last breath, ripping out her own fingernails from scratching to get out. The Killing also shines a light on the devastating effect Rosie’s death has on the family. Michelle Forbes and Brent Sexton play Rosie’s parents, Mitch and Stan respectively, who are destroyed by their eldest child’s murder. The proto-True Detective series explores grief and these dark pathologies in a gripping story that was gone far too soon. While Bosch survived seven-plus seasons, The Killing barely made it to four. It was cancelled twice, despite its character-driven story, anchored by a compelling narrative. These characters are as complicated as the mystery and beg viewers to watch all 44 episodes. Release Date 2011 - 2014-00-00 Cast Annie Corley Regi Darnell Brendan Sexton III Belko Royce A police investigation, the saga of a grieving family, and a Seattle mayoral campaign all interlock after the body of 17-year-old Rosie Larsen is found in the trunk of a submerged car.