This City Is Ours: A Crime Family Saga

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Season 1
  • Network: AMC+
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 5, 2026
Metascore
71

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7

Critic Reviews

  1. Decider
    Reviewed by: Johnny Loftus
    Mar 20, 2026
    70
    This City is Ours features a few wrinkles in its setting and approach that set it apart from the many, many similarly sprawling family crime dramas. We’ll stick with it and see what an impressively deep cast can bring to the story, which features a lot of other elements that strike us as pretty familiar.
  2. The Independent
    Reviewed by: Phil Harrison
    Feb 18, 2026
    80
    While the conflicted emotional openness of Liverpudlian gangster Michael Kavanagh (James Nelson-Joyce) isn’t the dominant theme of the BBC’s gripping new Sunday night thriller This City is Ours, it is a distinct subplot.
  3. The Observer (UK)
    Reviewed by: Barbara Ellen
    Feb 18, 2026
    80
    TCIO is nowhere near as good as The Sopranos (what is?), but it’s still a cut above the ordinary.
  5. The Telegraph
    Reviewed by: Anita Singh
    Feb 18, 2026
    100
    Of course this show isn’t as good as The Sopranos, so let’s dispense with that comparison. But it’s cracking. I binged all eight episodes in two days, and I’m not a big fan of dramas about drugs and guns.
  6. The Times
    Reviewed by: Carol Midgley
    Feb 18, 2026
    80
    There are too many “gritty” drugs gang dramas on TV these days but what makes a refreshing change about this one is that it is modern, witty and authentic, especially the writer Stephen Butchard’s dialogue.