Show Me A Hero - Season 1
A bitter dispute over federally mandated public housing divides Yonkers, N.Y., in the late 1980s in this six-part miniseries based on former New York Times reporter Lisa Belkin';;s nonfiction book. Mayor Nick Wasicsko took office in 1987 during Yonkers';; worst crisis. When federal courts ordered public housing be built in the white, middle class side of town, it divided the city in a bitter battle fueled by fear, racism, murder and politics.
19 December 1981, Bronx, New York, USA
4 November 1959, Los Angeles County, California, USA
15 July 1964, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
26 February 1970, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
8 June 1966, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
August 13, 2015
Bernthal, who has spent much of his recent career playing men of action, has the best role of his career, and he shines as cocky but dedicated NAACP lawyer Michael Sussman, determined to make Yonkers integrate.
August 14, 2015
Show Me A Hero is an outstanding and deeply soulful miniseries drama delivered at the kind of top-tier level that only comes along every few years or so.
August 13, 2015
Mr. [Oscar] Isaac...proves a terrific lead performer and he's joined by a coterie of semi-recognizable supporting players.
August 13, 2015
Show Me a Hero is the TV event of the Summer, a mini-series that plays like a great American novel or a lost Sidney Lumet movie.
August 13, 2015
Even when the narrative wanders, the terrific performances, Bruce Springsteen songs on the soundtrack, and its refusal to provide easy answers make Show Me a Hero thought-provoking and moving.
May 02, 2017
This is less a series of heart-tugging vignettes than a state-of-the-nation warning about the disintegration of America's political system. Its basic elements are fear and money.
August 13, 2015
The artfulness and empathy of Show Me a Hero would be tremendously moving in any year. But it feels particularly relevant in 2015, when the Black Lives Matter movement and the violent incidents that inspired it are dominating the headlines.
August 18, 2015
David Simon, creator of Baltimore-set masterpiece The Wire, has produced something compelling, complex and emotionally involving.
August 13, 2015
Taking wonky, dry, slow, intractable, expansive, and important social issues-in other words, subjects that seem innately anathema to television-and making them sexy, or at least dramatic, is David Simon's preferred mode.
October 04, 2016
To some extent, casting is everything. And in that sense, this is all about the lead, Oscar Isaac.
