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We’re giving a recommendation of 61st Street mostly for the performances of Vance and Ellis. But we’re definitely concerned that the show will lean too hard on things we’ve seen in this genre too many times already to say anything new.
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A watchable blend of provocative ideas, a semi-vivid setting and one narrative trope after another that feels lifted from one prestige TV show after another, overlaid one on top of the other so that moral murkiness and narrative cacophony go hand-in-hand.
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We’d like to think that without the heavy-handed style, with more subtlety, more trust in the audience to get it, even more gray areas, 61st Street really could have really connected.
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A dramatic dead end of heavy-handed storytelling, 61st Street loads the deck so obviously that its best intentions and first-rate cast barely stand a chance. [11 - 24 Apr 2022, p.7]
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"61 Street" throws a myriad of complex arcs in the air, leaving viewers to wait for their fall before deciding whether the time invested was worth it. And while nothing in Moffat’s all-too bleak legal series offends the spirit, nothing feeds it either.