Just saw a promo for this Showtime series produced my Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, starring Kevin Bacon, about police corruption in The Hub City, Beantown, The Athens of America, Boston, my home. The producers have made two compelling Boston crime movies that mean a lot to me, The Town and Gone, Baby, Gone, so I am psyched to watch this. Not for nothing, but nothing that matters in Boston happens without one or more palms getting greased.
shareI watched this last night. Looks like a good show to keep watching.
shareIt is getting better with each episode. Bacon seems to relish his role. Is it Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Mamet? No. Is it possible for me that be objective, disinterested? No. It’s about my adopted city. I love it, the series, Cheers, The Friends of Eddie Coyote, The Town and another Afflec film: Gone, Baby, Gone. And Patriots Day🇺🇸. We are Boston Strong. We are the Athens of America, Beantown, the Hub City, the educational and Biotech centers of the Western world and home to the Boston Public Library, the best public research library in the US. We also have a few good sports teams and the world’s oldest and most respected annual Marathon footrace. We are flawed as hell. We are also beautiful. I have hope for this series’ future. I hope you enjoy it, too.
shareIt's been excellent so far. Probably the best current series running.
As for Boston, damn the LE corruption there runs deep doesn't it?
Though to be fair, every major metropolitan I've ever resided in has had its fair share of police corruption. I'm not in position to judge whether Boston is really orders of magnitude worse than anywhere else, or it just appears that way.
As for best series running, I'd say that that would be "Jett." It is like Soderbergh directed a series.
I couldn't get past the first episode of this. I used to watch anything Bacon was in (and I'll always give him a shot) but this one didn't hook me.
Really? The acting has been excellent and it hooked me after the botched armored car heist and murders. Bacon's been great and I've enjoyed watching the Aldis Hodge-Seth Gilliam storyline unfold too.
I got about halfway through Jett and an episode into Loudest Voice before this series sucked me in when scoping for a new series to watch. Maybe I'll revisit Jett on your recommendation.
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"Admittedly he looked kinda tropish to me in the pilot"
He still comes across as kinda tropish to me. He's like the FBI superman baddie who is highly competent at being corrupt in service of nailing the bad guy. Also a clownishly entertaining and likable guy from an audience perspective. Must be a PITA to actually work with.
But that tropishness is also part of why I can't take this show as seriously as something like The Wire, as I mentioned in another thread. His character lacks the seriousness and gravitas that I'd expect of a real federal LEO, especially one as corrupt as he is. He gets away with flying by the seat of his pants too easily.
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