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Tales of the City - Season 1
In this comedy series, a group of people live in San Francisco in the 1970s and 1980s and routinely face their diary. The events begin when Mary Ann finds herself in front of a romantic turn over her new boss, Bochamp. On the other hand, Michael returns to the 28 Barbary Lane to live with his friend Mona Ramzi and to adapt continuously.
28 December 1964, Chicago, Illinois, USA
16 March 1949, London, Ontario, Canada
21 June 1964, New York City, New York, USA
2 December 1954, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
5 December 1969, Southfield, Michigan, USA
3 December 1965, New York City, New York, USA
2 October 1987, Taegu, South Korea
1 March 1963, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
June 05, 2019
What gives it importance, even in its silliest sequences, is that it was once a landmark series, emphatically controversial and the subject of a culture-war skirmish.
June 05, 2019
Perhaps most importantly and warmingly, Tales of the City speaks to the enduring resolve and love at the hearts of most close-knit communities in the world.
June 04, 2019
Even as I rolled my eyes or scratched my head at various developments, the performances and the optimistic (and very Maupin) spirit buoyed me through the whole thing.
June 10, 2019
But more than just a reunion special, the new series finds relevance in a very different city and offers compelling, interconnected vignettes.
June 05, 2019
The real nostalgia that this slack, earnest, self-help tract of a show evokes is for a time when a TV drama's main job was to tell a story.
May 31, 2019
Barbary Lane's celebrated queerness is less remarkable these days... Though such actorly appropriation is now frowned on, Olympia Dukakis is stuck playing the transgender landlady; she is perhaps "iconic".
June 10, 2019
For fans of Maupin's novels this will be an intriguing continuation of a world they love so deeply, but on its own "Tales of the City" has a lot of heart, and is meant to be enjoyed for its sense of life even when it deals with its more painful avenues.
June 10, 2019
In these intolerant times, it's a welcome championing of value-battles long thought (wrongly thought, it turns out) won.
June 07, 2019
Laura Linney perfectly reprises her role of Mary Ann, once our straitlaced guide into this hedonistic world as the wide-eyed new arrival who gets sucked into life in San Francisco
June 07, 2019
Curling up with "Tales of the City" feels like stepping into your neighborhood gay bar, where everybody knows your name - and your pronouns.
