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Everyone involved with Showtimes new crime showCity on a Hillseems to know their brief.
There are priests, and robbers wearing Jason Voorhees masks, and grand juries being empaneled.
There are women, mostly wives, who just wish they knew what their men were thinking.
WhatCity on a Hilllacks is much of a reason to exist at this particular moment in time.
The characters are functional.
City on a Hillis oddly, unmistakably loving.
Or at the very least, when corruption coexisted with competence.
That kind of disregard tends to be based on assumptions that could stand to be reexamined.
(Someone still has a DVD ofThe Departedlying around here somewhere, right?)
its going to be hard to find a reason to keep watching.
