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This series tells the story of events at the start of WW2 as seen through the eyes of owners and workers in a large department store. It's obviously a low budget production that is suitable for a Czech audience. The narrative is told in a very uneven manner and does not flow in a way to provide good continuity for a non-Czech audience. The acting is stilted and not at all believable, makeup and costuming are both poorly done, and individual languages e.g German and Czech are not separated to ensure authenticity. It appears that everyone just speaks Czech. The plot is a predictable one. The series is rebroadcast through Walter Presents, a channel that specializes in rebroadcasting less popular European TV series in the US.

Legacy is the continuation and eventual "winding down" of the series Bosch. It really isn't as good as the original! The scripts are written in a more childish manner, the dialog stilted and supposed attempts at humor fall flat. It brings back a variety of characters from the original in cameo roles. The narrative uses the technique of rapidly unfolding events, with the scenes sometimes appearing to be just tacked on randomly. Sometimes, the sequencing makes little sense. The supporting actors seem to be drawn from an amateur level, maybe because they are cheaper to use. One gets the impression that this series is just an "add on" with a lower budget and hurrying to finish up the series as a whole. It's entertaining, just not as well done as the first 3 seasons of the original were.

This detective series is entertaining throughout the 7 seasons it aired. The problem is that the quality of the seasons varied in the way each story was told. Some had stronger scripts than others. As the series progressed, one got the feeling that money was getting tight and the narrative began to unfold faster with fewer opportunities to understand how the plot unfolds. Events just seem to happen with little explanation or context as to the reasons they did. The episodes just became more rushed. The acting is not always stellar but it was interesting to see some familiar faces from past TV series in supporting roles. Welliver seems to have some dental issue that becomes distracting as it manifests in a lot of facial grimacing.