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  • 1996
  • TV-14
  • CBS
  • 1996
  • TV-14
  • CBS

Summary EZ Streets is an epic drama about a dark, gritty urban world, the people who live there and their struggle to live by the creed of the streets. The one-hour series explores the lives of Detective Cameron Quinn, gangster Jimmy Murtha, and ex-con Daniel Rooney, fiercely independent men living parallel lives on opposite sides of the law. Qu...

  • 1996
  • TV-14
  • CBS
  • 1996
  • TV-14
  • CBS

EZ Streets

Season 1 Premiere: Oct 27, 1996
Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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Summary EZ Streets is an epic drama about a dark, gritty urban world, the people who live there and their struggle to live by the creed of the streets. The one-hour series explores the lives of Detective Cameron Quinn, gangster Jimmy Murtha, and ex-con Daniel Rooney, fiercely independent men living parallel lives on opposite sides of the law. Qu...

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 25 Critic Reviews
84
92% Positive
23 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
8% Negative
2 Reviews

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 25 Critic Reviews
84
92% Positive
23 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
8% Negative
2 Reviews

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100
Jul 18, 2013
Stylishly produced, with haunting music, darkly diffused lighting and some surprising violence and raw street language, "EZ Streets" has loads of bite and texture. Based on Sunday night's two-hour preview episode, it has the potential to be one of the new season's best dramas. [27 Oct 1996]
By John Freeman FULL REVIEW
100
Jul 18, 2013
Prepare for top-notch dramatic writing, exceptional camera work and complex characters. [27 Oct 1996]
By Joanne Ostrow FULL REVIEW
100
Jul 18, 2013
The "EZ" dialogue is terse, suggestive, pointed and often ambiguous. The complicated "Streets" story deals with issues of truth, honor, justice, vengeance and loyalty. Its stark moral conflicts, set in a shady criminal underworld, deserve positive comparisons to "On the Waterfront," "Serpico," "Where the Sidewalk Ends" and the first year of "Wiseguy." [25 Oct 1996]
By Lon Grahnke FULL REVIEW
90
Jul 18, 2013
A fascinating and challenging new drama series. [27 Oct 1996]
By Gail Pennington FULL REVIEW
90
Jul 2, 2013
EZ Streets sustains a mood of despair unlike any other drama on television. ... And yet, for all its solemnity, EZ Streets somehow manages to avoid melodrama.
By Ginia Bellafante FULL REVIEW
75
Jul 18, 2013
An ambitiously moody exploration of moral ambiguity. [27 Oct 1996]
By Mike Duffy FULL REVIEW
20
Jul 18, 2013
It's achy, moody, glum, stylized and almost criminally pretentious. ... All the performances seem mannered. The show is plagued with arch, actorly acting, the kind that rings false and calls attention to its own falseness. ... Already some critics have hailed the show as a breakthrough. True enough -- it's a breakthrough from tedium into torpor. [27 Oct 1996]
By Tom Shales FULL REVIEW

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Production Company:
  • Paul Haggis Productions
  • Universal Television
Initial Release Date: Oct 27, 1996
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-14
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Awards

Television Critics Association Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Viewers for Quality Television Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Online Film & Television Association
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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