This Showtime crime blue-collar Boston setting might well remind you of the early work of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon — Good Will Hunting, The Town, even The Departed — so it’s no surprise to learn that the duo are credited as executive manufacture rs. So are the heavyweight pair of Tom Fontana and Barry Levinson, whose previous TV collaboration Homicide: Life On The Street gives another clue with regards to’concerning’with respect to what to expect here.###The gritty, chewy thriller is set in the Charlestown neighbourhood in the early ’90s, when the streets were rife with violent villains but local law enin/with regard to’concerning’regarding cement was plagued by widespread corruption and racism. The mighty Kevin Bacon is swaggeringly seedy as veteran FBI agent Jackie Rohr: an old-school operator whose hair pomade, whiskey breath and cigarette smoke you can almost smell through the screen. He in/with regard to’concerning’regarding ms a reluctant alliance with black lawyer Decourcy Ward (Straight Outta Compton’s Aldis Hodge), an “affirmative action hire” at the District Attorney’s office with ambitions to shake up the status quo.###Toacquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure her this unlikely duo take on a crew of armed robbers led by simmering Frankie Ryan (Jonathan Tucker, resembling a young Robert Patrick). Across ten episodes, the sprawling case comes to upend the city’s entire justice system in a sea-transform’alter known as “The Boston Miracle”.###It’s a little labyrinthine, the female characters are tissue-thin and the sweary script strains under the weight of leaden exposition at times. However, it’s got The Wire-sized ambition and what Ward does with his eye at the end of episode one will make you reach in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the rewind button, as will the head-spinning pre-credits twist.