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| Apple TV+ | Release Date: May 12, 2023 |
Summary:
A wealthy real estate family, the music scene and a series of fires are all connected to the shooting of NYU student named Samantha Cicciaro (Chase Sui Wonders) in this drama series inspired by the novel of the same name by Garth Risk Hallberg.
Genre(s):
Drama
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The Guardian
May 12, 2023
May 10, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The loose threads come together eventually in the eight-episode Apple TV+ series, based on Garth Risk Hallberg’s 900-page novel, if not in a particularly convincing fashion.
But it’s entertaining as all get out, even if it’s all over the place. The characters are different enough and likable enough and unlikable enough and just plain weird enough to keep viewers engaged.
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The Observer (UK)
Sep 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
It all becomes a mite stodged up – a veritable bottleneck of competing narratives. It doesn’t help that Nicky Chaos (Max Milner), one of the rebel rockers Sam is obsessed with in flashback, is a cringeworthy Iggy clone (why are fictional musicians so difficult to write?).
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May 10, 2023
Season 1 Review:
City on Fire has done away with almost everything that was distinctive about the book. ... The ensemble is good, the New York City settings authentic and the soundtrack on the level you’d expect from Schwartz and Savage. But those aspects fizzle entirely in an exposition-dominated homestretch culminating in a series of contrivances that are too ludicrous to be resonant.
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May 12, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The show favors stereotype over specificity. “City on Fire” is a much more earnest, less jaded show than “Gossip Girl” or “The O.C.”; its protagonists are still teenagers, but ones who wax rhapsodic about the city they idealize. When their show fails to demonstrate any real understanding of that city, though, the characters are projecting onto an empty slate.
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Jul 19, 2023
A pretentious show full of unlikable characters. Ever heard of character development? After three episodes I did not care anymore what happens next which is of course the final blow for any TV show. Still watched it to the end, it actually gets gradually worse, not better.
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Seasons & Episodes
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Season 1
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: May 12, 2023
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S1:E5. Brass Tactics
Air Date: November 30, -0001
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S1:E4. Land of a Thousand Dances
Air Date: November 30, -0001
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S1:E3. The Family Business
Air Date: November 30, -0001
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S1:E2. Scenes from Private Life
Air Date: November 30, -0001
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S1:E1. We Have Met the Enemy, and He Is Us
Air Date: November 30, -0001
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Season 1 Overview