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Tales of the City - Season 1
In this dramatic & comedy series, Armstrong's novels feature a group of people living in San Francisco in the 1970s and 1980s. In this series, these people coexist spontaneously with their lives filled with emotional attitudes, challenges and daily practices. Mary Ann Singleton is trying to make her decision to stay in San Francisco permanently. After a brief stay with her friend Kony, Mary meets this new family at 28 Barbery Lane. Meanwhile, Mary is on a passionate path by the son of her new boss, Bochamp.
7 August 1944, Salisbury, Maryland, USA
16 March 1949, London, Ontario, Canada
4 January 1980, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
1 March 1963, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
11 October 1956, Naples, Campania, Italy
4 September 1983, Austin, Texas, USA
21 February 1987, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
18 September 1963, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
1 July 1980, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
20 June 1931, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
20 July 1968, New York, 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 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.
June 10, 2019
In these intolerant times, it's a welcome championing of value-battles long thought (wrongly thought, it turns out) won.
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 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.
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 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 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.
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
But more than just a reunion special, the new series finds relevance in a very different city and offers compelling, interconnected vignettes.
