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Positive:
16
Mixed:
8
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews
Jun 13, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The performances and production values may be enough to keep you around to see whether the story picks up steam, and whether MacLean finds more original ways to shape his ideas into drama. “City on a Hill” keeps threatening to be interesting and exciting, but so far it hasn’t pulled off the job.
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Jun 11, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The series starts from a relatively rich premise. ... Even as the aperture expands, little gets better: the show’s broad view of a city of wrongdoers and accomplices features many familiar types (from sad-eyed Irish brothers in crime to Rohr’s long-suffering wife, played by a poorly-used Jill Hennessy) 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.
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TV Guide MagazineJun 20, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Jerks have all the fun--or at least that's how it seems in a '90s-set drama that, despite thick Boston accents and local color, is as generic as its title and twice as cliched. [24 Jun - 7 Jul 2019, p.11]
Jun 14, 2019
Season 1 Review:
In its first three episodes, City on a Hill doesn’t quite manage to sketch out the broad institutional framework that underpins a show like The Wire, and it also fails to make any of its primary characters especially endearing in a way that buys the show time for the rest of its mechanisms to click into place.
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