The first thing that made me sit up when I was watching "Mob City" (TNT) was Simon Pegg's American accent, which is perfect -- one of the best ever, even in a TV epoch in which every other U.S. TV show stars a Brit playing a Yank. Pegg is perhaps typecast in a different sense, playing a comedian working the jazz clubs of La's Central Avenue, the ones the young Clint Eastwood visited to hear Bird. The other immediately salient feature of this La cops and mobsters story set in the 1950s is the knee-deep period noir atmosphere, which some critics have complained is the only aspect of the production that creator/showrunner Frank Darabont (who was fired from the successful series "Walking Dead") seems to care deeply about. Certainly, the smoke-filled look and melancholy mood (lots of moaning saxophones) are laid on thick, and in broad strokes,...
- 12/10/2013
- by David Chute
- Indiewire Television
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