CityonaHill premieres Sunday on Showtime. Read Variety's review of the Boston-set Kevin Bacon police drama
Sunday you were considered legitimate.” It’s a statement that, awkwardly preceded as it is by one resident of a city saying to another the name of the place they both live, is actually trying to make a point about the city of Boston besides the fact that it exists. By that time, however, viewers might be forgiven for tuning out.There are plenty of reasons that a relatively small U.S. city has become the staging-ground for crime stories onscreen from “Mystic River” to “The Departed.
Even as the aperture expands, little gets better: the show’s broad view of a city of wrongdoers and accomplices features many familiar types and little sense of what life in this particular place is really like. Hodge is, by far, the best thing about the show, blending rectitude with real sorrow and moral confusion; little surprise that he is, by his nature as an outsider, the only character who doesn’t have untold numbers of referents in Boston lore.
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