Hightown

This is an interesting series if you have a mind for historical cities and their decline or at least the challenges they are likely to face. A coastal town stuck or thrust into a modern age and battling the effects of modernization and change. 

It is not likely to be your cup of tea of you are not drawn to the seedy side of life…but who is? These are the realities of life that the creator seeks to explore though. He observes and takes you through the lives of in my view two major characters on the good side and others on the not so good side. You have a lady plagued by a love for the bottle working with the fisheries law enforcement that is trying to get into a mainstream role with the police and a man with a passion for the law but a strong tendency to bend it too when it suits him as well as a weakness for skirts. 

On the whole if you look at these two people you could argue that it is a story about addiction and recovery and to a greater extend struggle and love. 

Then you have another set of antiheroes who have embraced a whole new set of opportunities. They are as often expressed in these shows slit along racial lines. A Hispanic/Dominican Amaury Nolasco who made his name and crafted his art in Prison Break this time taking on the role of a kingpin in the drug trade with a ‘club’ which supplies visual pleasures to men. Then you have an African American rising through the ranks partnering with a young girl who has ambitions of her own. The introduction to the young African American is short and you have no idea what she will become as the show progresses. 

The struggles depicted on addiction are real and the project keeps you glued to the screen hoping for the best for these two people. 

The rest of the show is really a game of chess and chance and a contest of will and minds as good guys and bad guys battle it out for fame and fortune and in some cases truth. 

There are some absolutely amazing scenes where true love is expressed for some at their extreme lowest and those are great to watch. There are also liberating takes on truth and what it means to free oneself from lies and how in some cases this can open one up to more fulfilling relationships.