This City Is Ours premiered last year in the UK, and has already received a Season 2 renewal as it makes its US debut on AMC+. Created and written by Stephen Butchard, the eight-episode series stars Sean Bean as Ronnie Phelan, king of the Liverpool cocaine scene. Ronnie’s on top, but looking at retirement – to spend more time at his gleaming villa in Spain – and this opens the potential for conflict between his successors. Have any of the characters on these sprawling family-based crime dramas ever watched one of TV’s many, many family-based crime dramas? Because then they might better understand how the son of the big boss will always spell trouble for the guy who rose through the ranks to be hand of the king. This City is Ours also stars James Nelson-Joyce, Hannah Onslow, Jack McMullen, Stephen Walters,
...Keep reading this article on DECIDER.
