Magic City (2012– )

Centers on Miami mobsters and other characters from Miami Beach in the late 1950s.

Creator:

Mitch Glazer

Stars:

Taylor Blackwell, Karen-Eileen Gordon, Todd Allen Durkin

Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 nomination.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Taylor Blackwell	...	Lauren Evans (16 episodes, 2012-2013)
Karen-Eileen Gordon	...	Florence (14 episodes, 2012-2013)
Todd Allen Durkin	...	Doug Feehan (13 episodes, 2012-2013)
Nick Depalo	...	Atlantis Bartender (11 episodes, 2012-2013)
Jeffrey Dean Morgan	...	Ike Evans (10 episodes, 2012-2013)
Olga Kurylenko	...	Vera Evans (10 episodes, 2012-2013)
Steven Strait	...	Stevie Evans (10 episodes, 2012-2013)
Jessica Marais	...	Lily Diamond (10 episodes, 2012-2013)
Christian Cooke	...	Danny Evans (10 episodes, 2012-2013)
Elena Satine	...	Judi Silver (10 episodes, 2012-2013)
Dominik García-Lorido	...	Mercedes Lozaro (10 episodes, 2012-2013)
Danny Huston	...	Ben Diamond (10 episodes, 2012-2013)
Yul Vazquez	...	Victor Lazaro (10 episodes, 2012-2013)
Chad Gall	...	Ethan Bell (10 episodes, 2012-2013)
Indra Patel	...	Mob Wife (10 episodes, 2012-2013)
Michael Rispoli	...	Bel Jaffe (9 episodes, 2012-2013)
John Cenatiempo	...	Vincent Lamb (9 episodes, 2012-2013)
Bradford Tatum	...	'Dandy' Al Haas (8 episodes, 2012)
Kelly Lynch	...	Meg Bannock (8 episodes, 2012-2013)
Garrett Kruithof	...	Roy Stout (7 episodes, 2012-2013)
Mark Alan Ziegler	...	Account (7 episodes, 2012-2013)

Storyline

As Frank Sinatra rings in a new year in the grand ballroom of Miami Beach's most luxurious dream palace - the Miramar Hotel - its visionary leader, Ike Evans, must deal with the Mob, his complicated family and a city in the midst of dramatic change as Fidel Castro takes control of Cuba, just 200 miles offshore. By day the hotel at the center of 'Magic City' is all diving clown acts and cha-cha lessons by the pool, but at night Miami Beach reveals a darker truth. Dopers, dealers, strippers, gangsters and those who arrest them drift together to hear the top nightclub acts perform. Just beneath the surface, racial tensions stir. Ike must deal with all of this, even while global intrigue is brewing right under his roof.

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Plot Keywords:

mobster | 1950s | gambling | hooker | miami florida

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Taglines:

Miami Beach, 1959. The beautiful life is about to get ugly.

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

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Certificate:

TV-MA

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

2012 (USA)

Also Known As:

Bűnös Miami

Filming Locations:

Miami, Florida, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Media Talent Group

Technical Specs

Runtime:

50 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

16:9 HD

Did You Know?

Trivia

Mitch Glazer is a Miami native. He based many of the stories in the show on experiences he heard about growing up and whilst researching later as a journalist. He originally thought it would be a feature film, but he had too much material so it became a TV series.

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Connections

Referenced in Chelsea Lately: Episode #7.12 (2013)

User Reviews

Good Watch. Promising Future.

After hearing that there was going to be a show about the 1960s Miami this TV Series caught my attention. Myself as a Retro fan was pretty happy that shows like these are getting more common after Mad Men and Boardwalk Empire which were and still are amazing series.

First off its not possible to rate a whole TV Series off the first Episode so this will be about the first episode and how it is in my Opinion.

Magic City looks and feels authentic in many ways. The Quality of the set is really great some improvements could be made here and there but overall it looks fine. The story looks promising with hopefully a lot of future depth in it. I hope what i saw in the first Episode is the tip of the Iceberg. Another plus is that the music of the show is truly great and was picked carefully so it fitted to most of the parts. The important thing is to keep the music as a feature and not to overuse it.

Considering that the actors here are not that well known they are acting in a great manner that makes them look like professionals at times. So a big bravo to the Cast. One of the other points i liked is that the series took good care about the date it was set in showing the affects of real occurrences on the story minorly.

The Effects sometimes did look a bit too weak compared to the rest of the show. These can be improved of course but this doesn't change the fact that it looked a bit off and unrealistic. There were some scenes where the camera angles and the look of a room in a scene wasn't that well done compared to the other great rooms or environments they had showed beforehand.

So Overall. A good watch with a few mistakes here and there on the first episode. Hoping to see the true potential of the storyline and depth out of the following episodes.

If you didn't watch it check it out and see for yourself

8/10