City on Fire (TV series)

After Samantha Yeung was shot in Central Park, New York City on July 4, 2003, the investigation into her shooting reveals the crucial connection between a series of mysterious city-wide fires, the downtown music scene, and a wealthy uptown real estate family fraying under the strain of the many secrets they keep. ==Cast==

Main • Jemima Kirke as Regan Hamilton Sweeney • Wyatt Oleff as Charlie • Chase Sui Wonders as Samantha Yeung • Nico Tortorella as William Hamilton Sweeney • Omid Abtahi as Detective Ali Parsa • Kathleen Munroe as Detective PJ McFadden • Xavier Clyde as Mercer • Alexandra Doke as Sewer Girl • Max Milner as Nicky Chaos • Beth Malone as Felicia Gould • Geoff Pierson as Bill Sr • John Cameron Mitchell as Amory Gould • Ashley Zukerman as Keith Recurring • Michael Tow as Joe Yeung • Alexander Pineiro as Sol • Amel Khalil as Sherry Parsa • Shawnee Smith as Ramona ==Production==

Development On June 30, 2021, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage were set to write and serve as showrunners for an 8-episode TV series adaptation of Garth Risk Hallberg's novel City on Fire, with Schwartz, Savage and Lis Rowinski producing the series through Fake Empire. Apple TV+ was set to distribute the series. On October 29, 2021, Jesse Peretz was set to direct the first 2 episodes and to also produce the series. City on Fire aired from May 12 to June 16, 2023 on Apple TV+. Additional casting was announced in March 2022. Filming Filming for the series began by April 2022 under the working title Brass Tactics. ==Episodes==

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 39% approval rating with an average rating of 5.0/10, based on 23 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Spread thinly across run-of-the-mill characters in an unconvincing setting, City on Fire is akin to getting doused with a cold bucket of water." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 45 out of 100 based on 10 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". ==References==