Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick ruthlessly goes after organized crime and is prepared to use brutal and violent methods to fight it..


Is it worth your time? If you like your crime dramas with a heavy dose of 1930s grittiness, absolutely. This isn't some polite, tidy procedural. It’s a fever dream of brass knuckles and bad attitudes. You should skip this if you need your heroes to have a clear moral compass or if you find old-school melodramatic actin...

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"Is it worth your time? If you like your crime dramas with a heavy dose of 1930s grittiness, absolutely. This isn't some polite, tidy procedural. It’s a fever dream of brass knuckles and bad attitudes. You should skip this if you need your heroes to have a clear moral compass or if you find old-school melodramatic acting a bit distracting. Watching Walter Huston go from a by-the-book guy to a man who basically decides he’s the judge, jury, and executioner is something else. He doesn't transition..."
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