Tag: Hightown
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‘Hightown’ Stars Amaury Nolasco, Riley Voelkel, & Shane Harper on the Dark Side of the Starz Series
Set in Cape Cod, the Starz drama series Hightown follows Jackie Quiñones (Monica Raymund), a National Marine Fisheries agent whose rocky journey to sobriety intersects with her discovery of a body on the beach and subsequent decision to try to solve the case. Jackie’s own investigation leads to a clashes with Sergeant Ray Abruzzo (James…
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‘Hightown’ Review: Cringey Provincetown Drug Thriller Is All Grit and No Glitter
The level of nuance in the storytelling on “Hightown,” a new hour-long drug thriller from Starz, can be easily illustrated by a fake internet comment shown under a news item about the show’s inciting murder: “Drug addicts are ruining the Cape!” Imagine someone barking that in a Massachusetts accent with all the subtlety of a…