61st Street. Available now on AMC+.
Police barbarically rampaging through the inner city is no longer a very original television trope, either in entertainment programming or, sadly, news. So when AMC's drama 61st Street opens with scenes of slit-eyed cops preparing a raid on an open-air corner drug market, there's a certain been-there-done-that ambiance in the air. It lasts only moments. Explosive and appalling, 61st Street tears off its mundane outer wrappings to reveal foundation garments of pure steel.
