Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge anchor a solid cast in ‘City on a Hill,’ the new Showtime series produced by — who else? — Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Read Alan Sepinwall's review
Claire Folger/SHOWTIMEopens with two characters discussing the classic children’s book and the city’s 1980s school-busing controversy. The only way the series — produced, of course, by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, along with creator Chuck MacLean and theduo of Tom Fontana and Barry Levinson — could more loudly declare its geographic bona fides would be for one of them to mention the time his buddy Sully parked his car in Harvard Yard.
Introductory title cards take us back to a real-life case from 1989, when a white man named Chuck Stuart murdered his wife, then blamed it on a black man, which prompted the local cops to use abhorrent methods to find the phantom killer, followed by years of violence and attempted reform. Enter starsand Aldis Hodge as reluctant allies Jackie Rohr and Decourcy Ward, who represent, respectively, the way the town’s always worked and the better way it could be.
The constant Boston name-checks are meant to add specificity to what would otherwise be a familiar story about the intersection between crime and politics. But the city doesn’t exactly lack for screen representation, including a number of past projects involving Affleck and/or Damon.
Ward is the less flashy role, but Hodge brings the necessary charisma to play someone this confident in his own righteousness. He’s been on the verge of breaking out for what feels like forever , and hopefully this will be the part that does it. Frankie Ryan’s a more straightforward character than the kind of eccentric toughs that Tucker’s specialized in playing lately (
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