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City on a Hill

Name: City on a Hill
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 2019-06-16
Rating: 7.235

★ 7,2 /10 (189 Votes)

2019 EN 3 Seasons

Overview

In early 90s Boston, an African-American District Attorney comes in from Brooklyn advocating change and forms an unlikely alliance with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran invested in maintaining the status quo. Together they take on a family of armored car robbers from Charlestown in a case that grows to encompass and eventually upend Boston’s city-wide criminal justice system.

Stream

First air date

16/06/2019

Votes

189

Popularity

10.0

Boston, 1993. No one gets away clean.

Genres

Crime Drama

Status

Canceled

Type

Scripted

Created by

Chuck MacLean

Networks

Showtime

Language

Last air date

2022-09-25

Episodes

Episode runtime

55 min

Website

www.sho.com

Season 1

10 episodes • 2019 • ⭐ 7,0

Idealistic Assistant DA Decourcy Ward and corrupt-yet-venerated FBI veteran Jackie Rohr come together in the early 1990s…

Season 2

8 episodes • 2021 • ⭐ 6,3

Season two centers on a federal housing project in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston that is plagued with drug violence…

Season 3

8 episodes • 2022 • ⭐ 6,1

Season three brings us to Boston's high society Beacon Hill. Having left the FBI and thrown his badge into Boston Harbor…

Kevin Bacon

Jackie Rohr

Aldis Hodge

Decourcy Ward

Jill Hennessy

Jenny Rohr

Lauren E. Banks

Siobhan Quays

Matthew Del Negro

Chris Caysen

Catherine Ashmore Bradley

Julietta Caysen

Original Soundtrack

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Wow. Really disappointing. I was excited for this series for two promised attractions: "The Boston Miracle" of 1990s fame; and Kevin Bacon. There is nothing at all related to the Harvard based research and problem-oriented policing project (also known as Operation Ceasefire or Boston Gun Project) that reduced group youth related gun homicides by as much as 40% in large cities across America in the 1990s—and cleaning up corruption. While I can never completely hate Kevin Bacon, his wit and talent are wasted in **_City on a Hill_**—although not completely unwatchable. The Jackie Rohr role has…

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_**Not "The Boston Miracle"**_ Wow. Really disappointing. I was excited for this series for two promised attractions: "The Boston Miracle" of 1990s fame; and Kevin Bacon. There is nothing at all related to the Harvard based research and problem-oriented policing project, also known as Operation Ceasefire or Boston Gun Project, that reduced group youth related gun homicides by as much as 40% in large cities across America in the 1990s-and cleaning up corruption. While I can never completely hate Kevin Bacon, in City on a Hill his wit and talent are wasted, although not completely unwatcha…

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