Paramount Home Media announced this past week that
the Showtime crime series draw from the “Boston Miracle” of the early 1990s, City on a
Hill: Season One, will be heading to DVD on Dec.
3.
All ten episodes from the first season (which has
been renewed for a second) are featured here.
Boston in early 1990s, the murder rate growing by
the year, corrupt law enforcement and gangs emboldened by the easy
pickings. Into this cauldron of crime
arrives a Brooklyn-raised Assistant District Attorney Decourcy Ward (Aldis Hodge
— Brian Banks, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, A Good
Day to Die Hard), a righteous man who is clearly
a fish out of water in Boston.
In something of a surprise, Ward manages to create
an uneasy bond with a ethically-challenged FBI agent by the name of Jackie Rohr
(Kevin Bacon). Rohr is at first part of
the problem and would like to just keep it calm and go-along, get-along. But … the violence, it gnaws.
Counter-point to Ward and Rohr are the Ryans, with
brothers Frankie (Jonathan Tucker — The
Ruins, Pulse) and Jimmy (Mark O'Brien — Bad Times
at the El Royale, Arrival) running a crime ring,
which is covered up nicely by Frankie’s sinister wife, Cathy (Amanda Clayton),
who makes it appear for all the world that her and Frankie are just working-class
stiffs.
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