• Network: Showtime
  • Series Premiere Date: Jul 9, 2006
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 23 Critics What's this?

User Score

Universal acclaim- based on 80 Ratings

  • Starring: Annabeth Gish, Al Sapienza, Jason Clarke
  • Summary: Showtime's epic drama series revolves around two brothers in Providence, R.I.: one a politician, the other a criminal.
  • Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure, Suspense
  • Creator: Blake Masters
  • Show Type: Ended
  • Season 1 premiere date: Jul 9, 2006
  • Episode Length: 60
  • Air Time: 10:00 PM
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 23
  2. Negative: 1 out of 23
  1. Every hour is impressive, surprising and entertaining.
  2. 80
    You might think you’ve seen this story before, and yet you haven’t seen it quite this way.
  3. There are entirely too many convenient coincidences, car accidents, Acts of God and gang-related atrocities for one insular neighborhood, and the violence starts to feel contrived, even gratuitous.
  4. 30
    Almost a parody of itself.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 48 out of 50
  2. Negative: 1 out of 50
  1. TonyS
    10
    Bring this show back please. With all the nonsense reality shows, it's great to see something so raw. I love the inter-twinned stories and every episode has a superb twist to it. Collapse
  2. MarcM
    8
    The show was a little slow to get off the ground. Once you were use to the surroundings and the characters like anything else it's becoming very a dark series and continues to impress with every episode. I like how the disruption of the Caffee boys family (Mother, sister, kids) continues to play out with their home lives, very real and gritty stuff going on here. I'm looking forward to seeing how Michael will take over the street and how Tommy continues to make his own mark. Tommy is a little more like his brother then he thinks which is making for some great television. Sylvester Stallone will be an interesting figure for the last 4 episodes. Let's just hope they use Sly in the right role. Good Show! Expand
  3. I only got through the first season of Brotherhood. It seemed promissing at first, but it never seemed to take off. The contrast between the two brothers is fun, but it kind of gets in the way when you are just waiting for the "bad" brother scenes, as they are the most entertaining. Expand
  4. perrys
    3
    The plots are contrived, plodding and predictable and so are the characters. None of them are likeable and I find myself not caring about any of them. The camera work and editing are lousy too. On the whole this show is about as subtle as my comments. Expand

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