Tales of the City TV-Show Review 2019 Cast Crew
Stars: Ellen Page, Laura Linney, Charlie Barnett
"We're still people, right?" Asks Anna Madrigal (Olympia Dukakis) at the beginning of the new installment of "Tales of the City." "Defect, narcissist ... and doing our best".
It's a summary as good as any of the first episodes of 2019 of one of the most surprisingly tough TV brands on the market. Based on the writing of the urban novelist and chronicler Armistead Maupin, "Tales of the City", about a community of misfits who are in San Francisco, he began his televised life as a 1993 miniseries; In 1998 and 2001 more facilities arrived. Eighteen years later, the show returns to Netflix, and arrives in June after a premiere episode that was screened, appropriately, at the San Francisco Film Festival on April 10. so this beginning is what the critics have to follow.)
The interesting trick of the series is, now as it was then, capture the action through the eyes of a stranger. Anna Madrigal, from Dukakis, has the most powerful wisdom, perception and experience lived on the sidelines, but she is not the protagonist; Mary Ann by Laura Linney, who enters the first series as a newcomer who impulsively decided to move to the Bay Area, is. Through her limited and growing understanding of the world around her, we slowly enter into a romantic vision of a genuine community.
The romance of the first series was partly due to the fact that he was representing San Francisco, about which the Maupin had written for the first time: pre-AIDS and, therefore, defined it as a sunny and optimistic libertinism. And the romance of the new one, in which Mary Ann enters again as a stranger, comes from the background of our own moment. Always in the square, Mary Ann has returned from exile in a small town on the east coast, where she has not seen any of her former compatriots in San Francisco in more than twenty years. He missed some, including Anna and her old friend Michael Tolliver (played, now, by the actor "Looking", Murray Bartlett, who entered a role that Marcus D'Amico and Paul Hopkins previously played); She is also consciously avoiding at least one. The Shawna of Ellen Page represents not only a much less emotionally constipated generation on issues of sexual fluency, but also a painful link to Mary Ann's past.
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