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Overview

When the body of a foreign student is discovered in the streets of the down-at-heel city of Besźel, it’s just another day’s work for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But he uncovers evidence that the murdered girl came from Ul Qoma, a city that shares a dangerous and volatile relationship with Besźel, and this case will challenge everything Borlú holds dear.

Series Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Danny Webb

    Major Syedr

  2. Cast 1

    Lara Pulver

    Katrynia Borlú

  3. Cast 1

    Mandeep Dhillon

    Constable Corwi

  4. Cast 1

    David Morrissey

    Tyador Borlú

  5. Cast 1

    Ron Cook

    Commissar Gadlem

  6. Cast 1

    Maria Schrader

    Senior Detective Dhatt

  7. Cast 1

    Christian Camargo

    Doctor Bowden

  8. Cast 1

    Paprika Steen

    Professor Mona Ul-Nadi

Last Season

Poster

Season 1

2018 | 4 episodes

season 1 of The City and the City premiered on Apr 6, 2018.

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I had thought about reading the novel before watching this series, but I did a quick inventory of how many books I have lined up to read and decided to go ahead and watch it. Overall I found this futuristic film to be entertaining. It follows a detective trying to solve a mystery in what is truly a unique setting for a mystery, in a city that shares part of its space with a sister city, almost like in a parallel universe. And there are rumors and traces of a further utopian place accessed in this shared city-space. Yes, it is strange stuff, intriguing, but at times unsatisfying. A few of t...

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Status Ended

Network Network

TypeScripted

Original LanguageEnglish 

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