City on the Hill - Showtime - US Pace (Spoilers)

Agent Coulson · 01-02-2019 4:33pm #1

Based on an idea by Ben Affleck who ex. produces with Matt Damon, Tom Fontana & Barry Levinson

Staring Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, Amanda Clayton, Cathy Moriarty, Kevin Dunn and Jill Hennessy.

Set in Boston in the early 90s when the city was rife with violent criminals emboldened by local law enforcement agencies, in which corruption and racism was the norm, until it all suddenly changed. The drama is a fictional account of what was called the "Boston Miracle" and centers on an African-American District Attorney who comes in from Brooklyn advocating change and the unlikely alliance he forms with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran who is invested in maintaining the status quo. Together they take on a family of armored car robbers from Charlestown in a case that grows to encompass and eventually upend Boston's city-wide criminal justice system.

Agent Coulson · 18-05-2019 6:37pm

Arrives June 16th

Looks great.

JP Liz V1 · 18-05-2019 8:30pm

Jonathan Tucker has me sold

Agent Coulson · 08-06-2019 5:03pm

Decent pilot introducing the main characters and setting up the story arc.

Agent Coulson · 23-06-2019 5:35pm

Solid episode 2 keeping the story moving.

Seriously impressive cast Sarah Shahi joins it this week.

Agent Coulson · 07-07-2019 4:41pm

4 episodes in now and you really can feel Tom Fontana & Barry Levinson fingers all over it.

Agent Coulson · 21-07-2019 2:39pm

Jackie is going to kill some people.

Agent Coulson · 02-08-2019 9:47pm

Renewed for a 2nd season.

Reisers · 08-08-2019 8:38pm

7.5/10 for me

Kevin bacon is stealing the show

Carver from The Wire as the preacher-dunno about that one

Gary Owen · 09-08-2019 5:46pm

Good show alright,
Have watched 5 episodes so far ,
looking forward finishing it shortly.

Starfleet Student · 09-08-2019 8:10pm

Bacon is a lot better in this than is he in those EE ads anyway.

Reisers · 09-08-2019 8:13pm

Starfleet Student wrote: »

Bacon is a lot better in this than is he in those EE ads anyway.

Bacon is killing it here

That lady investigator can't act to save her life

cdgalwegian · 09-08-2019 8:14pm

Gary Owen wrote: »

Good show alright,
Have watched 5 episodes so far

Same.

Affleck and Damon producing, it has Affleck's The Town feel about it, both being set in Charlestown, Boston.
Difficult to understand what they're saying and who they're referring to sometimes, and the story seems a much visited one, but the story itself is gaining good momentum; enough for it to be renewed for a second series.
For sure though:

Reisers wrote: »

Kevin bacon is stealing the show

Reisers · 09-08-2019 8:16pm

It has everything thrown in

Its deja vu all over again anyway with most crime shows

Very hard to understand /hear the dialogue

Slippin Jimmy · 10-08-2019 10:03am

Started watching this last night. I'm only one episode in. Looks like I picked the right weekend to catch up on it

. First episode was very good. Sets things up nicely going forward.

JP Liz V1 · 14-08-2019 4:32pm

This looks likely to be on Sky Atlantic later this year

Agent Coulson · 18-08-2019 12:25pm

That was a great season of TV and nicely set up now for the second season.

cdgalwegian · 03-09-2019 10:00am

Plenty of inner and outer conflict going on in a Boahsten microcosm to give solid entertainment, where we watch young and old idealism do battle within the bureacratic -and inevitably corrupt- fight against crime. It takes a while for it to get fully settled in, and for us to get invested, so the second series should improve on this, while hopefully providing some more good twists and turns. The leads were excellent, with stellar scumminess from Kevin Bacon.

Sebastian Dangerfield · 03-09-2019 10:10am

Is this on Netflix / Amazon / Hulu?

JP Liz V1 · 03-09-2019 12:27pm

It premieres Wednesday, 25th of September 2019 on Sky Atlantic and NOW TV

JP Liz V1 · 19-09-2019 8:41pm

Looks like this started last night on Sky Atlantic

Galwayguy35 · 25-09-2019 9:33am

Watched the first 2 episodes, it's good so far anyway.

reece289 · 25-09-2019 11:30am

Finished this in two days. It's trying to catch a bit of the Wire, pushing both sides.

I really enjoyed, despite it lacking in complexity.

theoneeyedman · 05-10-2019 1:24pm

Enjoying this so far. 6 or so episodes in, plenty of intrigue. Wouldn't say it's The Wire good or anything, but is gritty and has good characters. The Boston accents jar a bit on the ear, but that's OK, it is what it is I guess. Bacon looks like he's enjoying himself, hamming it up big time.

Be interesting to see how it finishes out, plenty of potential.

is_that_so · 05-10-2019 1:26pm

Is this worth it? Watched first one but found Bacon to be doing an awful lot of furniture chewing.

cdgalwegian · 05-10-2019 1:48pm

is_that_so wrote: »

Is this worth it? Watched first one but found Bacon to be doing an awful lot of furniture chewing.

It's not going to win awards, but definitely worth sticking with. Bacon's character gets more depth (and scumminess) as it goes on, with some character development elsewhere. It's more than possible- with the set-up and characters- a second series could do better, so you could wait (:eek:) before investing your time, because, after all, it could sink. I'd definitely watch a second series (the first couple of episode at least), though it wouldn't be my highest priority.

terrydel · 05-10-2019 4:26pm

Reisers wrote: »

7.5/10 for me

Kevin bacon is stealing the show

Carver from The Wire as the preacher-dunno about that one

Similar to his role in the walking dead.

Degag · 14-11-2019 1:34am

Just finished there. Overall quite enjoyable. As others have said Kevin Bacon is excellent in it

Agent Coulson · 18-01-2021 10:45pm

Season 2 teaser

Agent Coulson · 24-02-2021 8:12am

Season 2 starts March 28th.

Agent Coulson · 28-03-2021 1:32pm

Great opening to season 2 looks like it is going to be another cracking season.

28-03-2021 1:40pm

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Great opening to season 2 looks like it is going to be another cracking season.

That looks great but I'll need a recap, I must be getting old but I can't remember any of season 1.

steve_r · 29-03-2021 11:47am

Deleted User wrote: »

That looks great but I'll need a recap, I must be getting old but I can't remember any of season 1.

I couldn't remember anything at all (even if I had liked the show) but threw it on anyway.

It feels like a fresh storyline that touches on Season 1 but in all honesty it could be the pilot episode of the show.

Really enjoyed it, Bacon a bit more toned down this season. The usual OTT Baawstan stuff but I think that's part of the charm.

Another show with a great cast as well, John Doman is always quality and I've a real soft spot for Mark O'Brien from Republic of Doyle and Halt and Catch fire

Delta2113 · 07-04-2021 12:59pm

Watched season 2 episode 1 and yep was trying to remember the first season as well but I do remember I liked it.

Agent Coulson · 11-04-2021 6:55am

Well damn I did not see that ending coming this week.

Agent Coulson · 26-04-2021 10:26pm

I’d definitely want Jackie taking the law into his own hands for me if my mrs was shot.

Did you smash it · 02-05-2021 1:18am

Watching the first episode of season one...why the blazes are they robbing the actual cash in transit van and not just taking the cash?

Galwayguy35 · 02-05-2021 8:21pm

Probably looking a summer realese date on Sky, they were about 4 months behind the yanks for S1

BandMember · 10-05-2021 1:39am

So, what happened the Ryan brother that went to prison?? Did I miss something because I didn't see anything mentioned until this week's episode??

JP Liz V1 · 14-05-2021 12:31am

Sky Atlantic on Tuesday May 25th at 9pm for the 2nd season

Agent Coulson · 16-05-2021 10:30am

Good end to the season now to see where they go with season 3 if it's renewed which it really should be.

theoneeyedman · 24-05-2021 11:02pm

OmegaGene wrote: »

finished this last night and really enjoyed it, the ending seemed to leave it where its hard to know if it will be renewed or not
still not sure what happened to the fella in prison, we saw a death certificate and thats it unless i missed something

Just finished Season 2, enjoyed it again.
Bacon hams it up royally, completely OTT at times, but saw some nuance this season compared to season 1,especially with Mrs Roarke and his daughter.

Most of the ends tied up I thought, don't know where the characters like Jackie and Ryan's wife can really go from here..... Maybe there is another arc in the story, perhaps as mooted above Frankie isn't dead at all!!

Anyway, I'd recommend it, stink of The Wire off it at times, not as good obviously but certainly worth investing some time in it.

Agent Coulson · 02-06-2021 7:18pm

Renewed for a 3rd season.

steve_r · 02-06-2021 8:10pm

Great news, but I wonder were they expecting it - they seemed to close off all open storylines and the end of Season 2?

cdgalwegian · 19-06-2021 9:21am

theoneeyedman wrote: »

Just finished Season 2, enjoyed it again.
Bacon hams it up royally, completely OTT at times, but saw some nuance this season compared to season 1,especially with Mrs Roarke and his daughter.

Anyway, I'd recommend it, stink of The Wire off it at times, not as good obviously but certainly worth investing some time in it.

Finished episode 4, and felt it had definite echoes of The Wire to it at this stage, which was a positive for me- blended nicely with the corruption angle; "stink of the Wire" though?

cdgalwegian · 03-07-2021 2:19pm

Season 2 is good drama; in a way, season 1 retrospectively seems almost like a pilot for this one, as a background for the more procedural style of the second. I like the more modern element these days of killing off main characters almost out of the blue, rather than making it as a climactic thing.

ollaetta · 06-07-2021 7:19pm

Haven't finished yet but I have to say the Irish wan from Belfast is

such a cliched cardboard cut out of a character.

. Maybe things change in the last couple of episodes but I can't see what she adds to the story.

Agent Coulson · 27-06-2022 5:28pm

Season 3 trailer.

Starts July 29th

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNyHYBA-MuA&ab_channel=SHOWTIME

Frank Grimes · 31-07-2022 2:54pm

The first episode of season 3 aired early.

Agent Coulson · 31-07-2022 4:31pm

Some great additions to the cast for season 3.

Corbin Bernsen, Ernie Hudson, Joanne Kelly.

Frank Grimes · 31-07-2022 4:34pm

Got around to watching it earlier, looks like it'll be another good season.

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City on the Hill - Showtime - US Pace (Spoilers)