Titus Welliver Is Starring in a New Crime Thriller, But He Still Made Time to Return as Bosch in ‘Ballard’ Season 2
Titus Welliver has a lot on his plate.
The Bosch star has been keeping busy since the end of his popular Prime Video series in April 2025. He’s taking the lead alongside J.K. Simmons in the new MGM+ series, The Westies, which premieres July 12. And he’s also made time to reprise his role as Harry Bosch in the second season of the Bosch spinoff Ballard.
Harry Bosch is back in three episodes of ‘Ballard’ Season 2
Welliver appeared in several episodes of Ballard Season 1, with his ex-LAPD detective character stepping up to help the department’s cold case investigator Renée Ballard tackle a thorny case. His presence cemented the connection between Bosch and Bosch: Legacy, while also making it clear that Ballard was meant to stand on its own.
Ballard Season 2 will see Ballard dig even deeper into an LAPD conspiracy. Given that Bosch regularly took a stand against institutional corruption in Bosch and Bosch: Legacy, it’s not a huge surprise that he’ll pop up again in season 2 to provide more assistance to Ballard.
In a recent interview with ScreenRant, Welliver revealed that he’ll appear in three episodes of Ballard’s sophomore season. He said his character “comes in to kind of service the brand.”
After the intensity of 10 seasons of Bosch and Bosch: Legacy, Welliver added that he welcomed the opportunity to return to the character in a reduced role, calling his experience on Ballard “fun.”
Titus Welliver plays a different kind of cop in ‘The Westies’
Welliver might have needed the break, considering his other, recent roles. In season 4 of AMC’s Dark Winds, he played a nefarious crime kingpin named Dominic McNair. And the actor has a central role as NYPD cop Glenn Keenan in The Westies. The show is “a gritty and kinetic crime drama” from the co-creator of Narcos. It focuses on an Irish-American gang operating in New York City’s in the early 1980s.
The drama centers around the construction of the Jacob Javits Convention Center, which is taking place on the Westies’ home turf in Hell’s Kitchen and promises a financial windfall.
“Despite being outnumbered fifty-to-one by the Five Families of the Italian Mafia, the Westies’ legendary brutality and cunning have given them the leverage necessary to share the spoils through a fragile détente,” reads the description of the show. “But internal conflict between the brash younger generation and the old-school leadership threatens to set a match to this powder keg, which will sweep the Westies into the FBI’s ever-deepening investigation into the Italian mafia.”
Welliver again plays a cop in The Westies. But his character is a far cry from the morally principled crusader he portrayed in Bosch, with his “everybody counts or nobody counts” motto. The “troubled” Keenan grew up with the Westies crew, according to Deadline, and is now torn between his loyalty to law and order and his love for his wayward son.
“[Keenan] has been drawn to the dark side,” Welliver explained to ScreenRant, comparing the character to Darth Vader. “…There is the job as being a police officer, but he doesn’t really serve that master any longer, and he is more bound to the tribal sense of being Irish and being part of Hell’s Kitchen in that neighborhood, to keep the Italian mafia from trying to take it away from them,” Welliver explained to ScreenRant. “And that aspect of that loyalty, I think, is an interesting conundrum for a character to play.
The Westies premieres July 12 on MGM+. Ballard Season 2 does not yet have a release date.
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