Tales of the City - Season 1 Watch Online for Free

A dramatic & comedy series that captures the lives of a group of people living in San Francisco in the 1970s and 1980s. As the days pass, these people face a variety of situations of comedy, romance and challenges based on the novels of Armstrong Mobin. Events start as Mary Ann Singleton decides to stay permanently in San Francisco and may find herself seduced by the son of her new boss, Boschamp in a short time.

Genre:

Drama

Actors:

Laura Linney, Elliot (Ellen) Page, Paul Gross, Murray Bartlett, Charlie Barnett, Olympia Dukakis, Garcia, May Hong, Victor Garber, Ashley Park, Christopher Larkin, ...»

Director:

Alan Poul, Silas Howard, Stacie Passon, Kyle Patrick Alvarez, Patricia Cardoso, Sydney Freeland

Country:

United States

Release:

2019

IMDb:

7.4

Quality:

Duration:

60 min

Rolling Stone

Even as I rolled my eyes or scratched my head at various developments, the performances and the optimistic (and very Maupin) spirit buoyed me through the whole thing.

June 04, 2019

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indieWire

Curling up with "Tales of the City" feels like stepping into your neighborhood gay bar, where everybody knows your name - and your pronouns.

June 07, 2019

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The Gate

Perhaps most importantly and warmingly, Tales of the City speaks to the enduring resolve and love at the hearts of most close-knit communities in the world.

June 05, 2019

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Observer (UK)

In these intolerant times, it's a welcome championing of value-battles long thought (wrongly thought, it turns out) won.

June 10, 2019

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Globe and Mail

What gives it importance, even in its silliest sequences, is that it was once a landmark series, emphatically controversial and the subject of a culture-war skirmish.

June 05, 2019

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New York Times

The real nostalgia that this slack, earnest, self-help tract of a show evokes is for a time when a TV drama's main job was to tell a story.

June 05, 2019

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Entertainment Voice

For fans of Maupin's novels this will be an intriguing continuation of a world they love so deeply, but on its own "Tales of the City" has a lot of heart, and is meant to be enjoyed for its sense of life even when it deals with its more painful avenues.

June 10, 2019

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Financial Times

Barbary Lane's celebrated queerness is less remarkable these days... Though such actorly appropriation is now frowned on, Olympia Dukakis is stuck playing the transgender landlady; she is perhaps "iconic".

May 31, 2019

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Daily Telegraph (UK)

Laura Linney perfectly reprises her role of Mary Ann, once our straitlaced guide into this hedonistic world as the wide-eyed new arrival who gets sucked into life in San Francisco

June 07, 2019

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The Daily Dot

But more than just a reunion special, the new series finds relevance in a very different city and offers compelling, interconnected vignettes.

June 10, 2019

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