The City and the City (TV Series 2018-2018)

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The City and the City (2018)

15 Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Crime

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Overview

When the body of a foreign student is discovered in the streets of the down-at-heel city of Besźel, it’s just another day’s work for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But he uncovers evidence that the murdered girl came from Ul Qoma, a city that shares a dangerous and volatile relationship with Besźel, and this case will challenge everything Borlú holds dear.

Series Cast

Danny Webb

Major Syedr

4 Episodes
Lara Pulver

Katrynia Borlú

4 Episodes
Mandeep Dhillon

Constable Corwi

4 Episodes
David Morrissey

Tyador Borlú

4 Episodes
Ron Cook

Commissar Gadlem

4 Episodes
Maria Schrader

Senior Detective Dhatt

4 Episodes
Christian Camargo

Doctor Bowden

4 Episodes
Paprika Steen

Professor Mona Ul-Nadi

4 Episodes

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Last Season

Season 1

94%
2018 • 4 Episodes

Season 1 of The City and the City premiered on April 6, 2018.

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A review by Peter McGinn

70%

Written by Peter McGinn on August 29, 2020

I had thought about reading the novel before watching this series, but I did a quick inventory of how many books I have lined up to read and decided to go ahead and watch it. Overall I found this futuristic film to be entertaining. It follows a detective trying to solve a mystery in what is truly a unique setting for a mystery, in a city that shares part of its space with a sister city, almost like in a parallel universe. And there are rumors and traces of a further utopian place accessed in this shared city-space. Yes, it is strange stuff, intriguing, but at times unsatisfying.

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