Hightown

Name: Hightown
Genre: Drama, Suspense
Released: May 17, 2020
Rating: 62

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Starz | Release Date: May 17, 2020

Summary: National Marine Fisheries Service agent Jackie Quiñones (Monica Raymund) finds a dead body and butts heads with Cape Cod Interagency Narcotics Unit's Sergeant Ray Abruzzo (James Badge Dale), who is in charge of the investigation in this crime series written by Rebecca Cutter.

Genre(s): Drama, Suspense

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RogerEbert.com Matt Fagerholm

May 12, 2020

Season 1 Review: With every episode, Estimond adds new fascinating layers to his character, shedding light on the code he honors which separates him from animalistic henchmen such as Kizzle (white-haired Edmund Donovan, camping it up). He also sports a surprising sense of humor, earning laughs when you least expect them. ... Thankfully, when the show needs to be deadly serious, it is to often riveting effect, grounding its yarn of corruption in the tragedy and lack of closure that its subject matter demands. Read full review

Mike Hale

May 15, 2020

Season 1 Review: “Hightown” loses some of its momentum in later episodes — the story bogs down a bit and the pieties about addiction and taking control of your life move more into the foreground. But it never entirely loses its flavor. It’s good enough that if it were a little better — a little quirkier, a little more urgent — there’d be nothing to complain about, and that’s pretty good. Read full review

Hank Stuever

Jun 17, 2020

Season 1 Review: Here’s the tightly wound, smartly layered, compulsively watchable crime drama about an alcoholic, lesbian marine fisheries agent that you’ve all been waiting for. Monica Raymund (“Chicago Fire”) gives a compellingly frenetic performance as Jackie Quiñones. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Matt Roush

May 13, 2020

Season 1 Review: Grisly thriller Hightown lays on the raunch and violence so thickly, you might mistake it for classic soft-core Cinemax. And yet there's a grim, propulsive urgency to the exploits of Jackie Quinones. [11 - 24 May 2020, p.7]

Joel Keller

Jun 24, 2020

Season 1 Review: There’s nothing glaringly wrong with it, just as there’s nothing so intriguing about it that you want to watch it week-to-week or even binge it once Starz has aired all the episodes. Read full review

IndieWire Jude Dry

May 18, 2020

Season 1 Review: “Hightown” is an uneven mash-up of incongruous themes, a veritable grab bag of provocations that may have felt edgy 20 years ago. That may have been forgivable if the plot was halfway intriguing, but the twists are about as surprising as a drag queen in P-town. Read full review

Daniel D'Addario

May 14, 2020

Season 1 Review: While the series puts great effort into exposing other sides of the community, it doesn’t, elsewhere, transcend fairly simple character types, dragging us instead into recursive storytelling that’s outshone by the local color. Read full review

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Nobilis1984

Jul 27, 2020

The LGBTQ thing is played out too weakly here. The main actress is interesting but cannot wear the series alone. The male lead is supposed to be a corrupt and sneaky cop. But that's pretty weak from the actor. The story itself is gray mediocrity and the dialogues are often stupid.
CANThe LGBTQ thing is played out too weakly here. The main actress is interesting but cannot wear the series alone. The male lead is supposed to be a corrupt and sneaky cop. But that's pretty weak from the actor. The story itself is gray mediocrity and the dialogues are often stupid.
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The series should probably provoke by the LGBTQ theme but is still quite pale around the nose.
After episode 2 I don't know why this series is given a second season. The story is terribly tough and the characters don't get any depth.
Now I'm in episode 4 and it doesn't get any better. The episodes become tough and the plot does not advance.
now the main actress is also annoying with her quirks. In addition, it almost degenerates into porn.
So episode 4 through and the main character is just annoying. Instead of investigating the case, they drink, draw and torture coke. Totally by the old woman. And then she runs around again.… Expand

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UncleWillard

Jun 25, 2020

Garbage. Hot, pandering garbage. None of the characters are likeable and the story is stupid. Feels like its written about CHAZ or some kind of drug and sex-fueled, LGBTQ purgatory. Sense8 without an interesting arc.

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 3

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  Air Date: January 26, 2024
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  Air Date: October 17, 2021
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  Air Date: May 17, 2020