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The City and the City (TV Miniseries)

The City and the City

2018

Tom Shankland

David Morrissey, Mandeep Dhillon, Maria Schrader, Ron Cook ...

5.6

263

TV Series. Thriller. Sci-Fi. Mystery TV Miniseries (2018). 4 Episodes. The body of a dead girl is found at Bulkya Docks, on the border between Beszel and Ul Qoma - two cities with a division like no other. Resident of the crumbling city of Beszel and Inspector of the Extreme Crime Squad, Tyador Borlú takes on the case, assisted by OFFICER LIZBYET CORWI. The girl's body was seen dumped on the wasteland by a yellow van, and DETECTIVE NAUSTIN presumes the girl must have been ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Jasper Rees Telegraph	"[It] is a perfect fit for David Morrissey (...) It features all the trappings of a regular murder case (...) Everything else feels creepily, unsettlingly different (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Ellen E. Jones The Guardian	"Miéville’s metaphor for modern life remains clear (...) [A] flat-footed adaptation (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Alex Mullane Digital Spy	"[It] conveys the notion of twin cities smartly (...) Morrisey is excellent (...) A series that's simultaneously comfortingly familiar and brazenly fresh."	POS
United Kingdom	Chris Bennion The Times	"I thought it was rather brilliant (...) It could all fizzle into nonsense, but I am on tenterhooks ahead of episode two (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	London Evening Standard	"The new BBC thriler is smart without crowing about it and satisfyingly humorous"	POS

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