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City on a Hill - Season 1
It is a series of powerful drama of the early 1990s where corruption and racism were rampant in Boston. Now, an African-American lawyer from Brooklyn arrived in the city to collaborate with an FBI veteran to stamp out widespread corruption. The two robbers face armored vehicles in a case that eventually leads to a different turn.
June 14, 1965 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2 October 1962, Berkeley, California, USA
3 March 1995, Huntington, New York, USA
June 17, 2019
Considering the breadth of the series' narrative ambitions, as laid out by the premiere, there's a good chance that City on a Hill will find a way to dig deep and offer up the sort of character drama that may well make it a standout on Showtime.June 18, 2019
When the series isn't immersed in pulpy shenanigans, it aspires to be a sort of Bostonian The Wire.June 11, 2019
"City on a Hill" can get a little lost in the bureaucracy of what it's building, but those details are also what keep it grounded.June 18, 2019
Other than the series's insistence on beating the viewer over the head about its setting, it's a solid Boston crime drama, at least based on the pilot.June 12, 2019
It's good, if you like gritty crime drama and crooked cops; and...it's going to get better.June 17, 2019
The action in City on a Hill is staged competently enough, but it's nothing you haven't seen before in half a dozen or more premium cable shows. What makes City on a Hill go is the performances, especially those of Bacon and Hodge.June 19, 2019
Gritty, violent crime drama explores racial tensions.June 12, 2019
A showy command performance by Kevin Bacon won't be taking City on a Hill to new heights. It's enough, however, to give Showtime another Ray Donovan in terms of watchable, serviceable, jut-jawed crime hours.June 14, 2019
Just as the main characters in City on a Hill fight against the status quo of corruption, Fontana, as a writer and producer, has fought just as diligently against the bland status quo of television.June 12, 2019
A show that has just enough crackling dialogue and fascinating characters to keep its sometimes-clunky plot moving.