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Dominican Rep. City of Men (TV Series)
286
TV Series. Drama. Comedy
TV Series (2002-2018). 6 Seasons. 27 Episodes. In this original variation on the Latin American telenovela (slow, emotional soap), life in Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian big city jungle, is told in short, fast alternating scenes from the viewpoints of two sets of characters, all youngsters, but from both sides of unequal life: generally dark-skinned street-kids, which rarely come to anything better then begging and street crime, and ... [+]
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"'City of Men' pulses with the kind of energy you don't get often on American television, and the realness of the shot-on-location scene really makes each episode feel like a minimovie" | POS |
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United States |
Salon | "Unlike anything else you've ever seen on TV." | POS |
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United States |
Slate | "It smoothly toggles between working as a crime melodrama and a coming-of-age tale, as a harrowing piece of social commentary and a gentle bit of farce" | POS |
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United States |
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The humorous moments are all the more precious because life is so tough in this engrossing series. " | POS |
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United States |
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"The closest American popular television has ever come to this kind of close-up realism is probably the drug-dealing scenes in 'The Wire'" | POS |
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United States |
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"It's a work whose immense vitality and a persuasive naturalism overcome its occasional paroxysms of style or hammered-home points" | POS |
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