| SHOWTIME | Season Premiere Date: June 16, 2019 |
Summary:
Set in 1990s Boston, FBI agent Jackie Rohr (Kevin Bacon) and new ADA Decoucy Ward (Aldis Hodge) team up to catch a family of armored car robbers that leads to a wider case of corruption in the entire criminal justice system in Boston.
Creator:
Chuck MacLean
Genre(s):
Drama
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Season 1 Episodes
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S1:E12. I Need a Goat
Air Date: April 4, 2021
Jun 14, 2019
Partly concocted from leftover bits of the previous Boston crime movies made by executive producers Ben Affleck and Matt Damon (particularly Affleck's 2010 production The Town), and partly from screenwriter Chuck MacLean's fictionalized account of the political cleanup known locally as the Boston Miracle, City on a Hill could reasonably be mistaken for a Bean Town version of The Wire.
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Jun 12, 2019
It’s good, if you like gritty crime drama and crooked cops; and, based on the three episodes available for review, it’s going to get better. ... The scope of “City on a Hill” is more ambitious than most of the Boston stories we’ve seen, including Affleck’s “The Town” and “Gone Baby Gone,” and that gives it distinction.
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Jun 18, 2019
Some scenes tend to devolve into a lot of bureaucratic jargon and off-the-cuff mentions of Boston locations that might lose anyone unfamiliar with the city. Where the series excels, however, is in the level of detail it brings to its individual characters. ... Such a confident grasp of character goes a long way toward smoothing over the show’s somewhat clumsier big-picture narrative, as City on a Hill proves itself as effective at small, interlocking details as it is at purely hammy thrills.
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Jun 12, 2019
Jun 14, 2019
City On A Hill is watchable enough, with strong production values and some great location work, and it’s possible that the show will find its footing after a shaky start, as Billions, its predecessor in this Showtime slot, did. In its first three episodes, however, it’s far too dependent on what has come before.
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Dec 3, 2021
Jun 14, 2019
In its first three episodes, City on a Hill doesn’t quite manage to sketch out the broad institutional framework that underpins a show like The Wire, and it also fails to make any of its primary characters especially endearing in a way that buys the show time for the rest of its mechanisms to click into place.
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Apr 5, 2021
Worth a watch. Very smart show. Entertaining too. The cast is really, really fantastic.
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Jun 17, 2019
The first 15 minutes of the first season are a little rough, but if you can get beyond that, it seems like a promising show. Really excellent cast, solid soundtrack, and pulpy fun stories. I'm just hoping it didn't shoot its wad in terms of fun ideas in the first ep.
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Air Date: June 16, 2019
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S1:E12. I Need a Goat
Air Date: April 4, 2021
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