One Man, One City!
Premiering tonight, 10 p.m. on Starz.
1. “He’s not a bad man, but he does very, very bad things.”
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2. “In this city, power isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.”
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3. “The next Breaking Bad.”
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4. “Sex, Drugs, Chicago: Kelsey Grammer is the mayor of the Windy City in the nakedly ambitious new show Boss.”
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5. “A Little Macbeth With Some Mayor McCheese.”
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6. “Both Underwhelming And Over The Top.”
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7. “Boss, which begins on Friday and stars Kelsey Grammer, can’t quite keep faith with its own cynicism. The series premiere is beautifully but ponderously shot: Chicago as seen through the eyes of a stylish European auteur. The story has some finely drawn characters and lots of promising material: This is, after all, politics the Chicago way. But too often the plot veers off into overwrought tangents that clash with the bleak realism of the story.”
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Comments welcome.
Posted on October 21, 2011