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Tuesday, 27 October 2015

Wicked City: Series Premiere Review

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On Tuesday, October 27th, at 10/9c, ABC longs to take you back to the early '80s Hollywood glam rock scene for the first season (that is, if there's more to come) of a new anthology series called Wicked City. A ham-fisted, paper thin "cat and mouse" cop series featuring a bunch of great performers who deserve much better material.

The idea behind Wicked City, we can presume, is that each future season would track a different murder case in a different city and era. Here, the 1982 Sunset Strip "scene" is projected with such tired tackiness, and lands with such an unsubtle thud, that it makes so much of what you're watching a chore. Sure, there's smirk value in hearing a few notable tunes from the era creep in, but you're not going to hear a few. You're going to watch an entire soundtrack in 40 minutes. Three Billy Idol songs, some Joan Jett, a Soft Cell track, as well as many more. Enough to choke the life out of any story and make you wish you were just listening to a Spotify playlist.

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