- Network: Apple TV+
- Series Premiere Date: May 12, 2023
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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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It would be hard for me to say that City on Fire should be top of your watchlist. However, I would also be loathe to warn people off it. ... If you stick past the first episode and get to know the characters and their individual plights, no matter how down-the-line they are played, then there are still plenty of moments to enjoy here.
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Sputters when we should feel the blaze of narrative urgency. [23 May - 11 Jun 2023, p.6]
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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.