City on a Hill

About City on a Hill

In early 90s Boston, an African-American District Attorney comes in from Brooklyn advocating change and forms an unlikely alliance with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran invested in maintaining the status quo. Together they take on a family of armored car robbers from Charlestown in a case that grows to encompass and eventually upend Boston’s city-wide criminal justice system.

City on a Hill is a crime series that ran on Showtime. Its themes are dirty cop, criminal justice system, 1990s, and corruption.

It ran for 3 seasons and 26 episodes between June 2019 and September 2022. Seasons run to about 9 episodes.

Kevin Bacon leads the cast as Jackie Rohr, Aldis Hodge as Decourcy Ward, Jill Hennessy as Jenny Rohr, and Lauren E. Banks as Siobhan Quays.

Peaky Blinders, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Black Bird make useful companions to City on a Hill, all filed under criminal. TMDB voters put it at 7.3 out of 10 across 195 votes and it carries a TV-MA rating.