Magic City TV Series 2012

As Frank Sinatra rings in a new year in the grand ballroom of Miami Beachs most luxurious dream palace the Miramar Hotel its visionary leader Ike Evans must deal with the Mob his complicated family and a city in the midst of dramatic change as Fidel Castro takes control of Cuba just 200 miles offshore. By day the hotel at the center of Magic City is all diving clown acts and chacha lessons by the pool but at night Miami Beach reveals a darker truth. Dopers dealers strippers gangsters and those who arrest them drift together to hear the top nightclub acts perform. Just beneath the surface racial tensions stir. Ike must deal with all of this even while global intrigue is brewing right under his roof.

Review

This show caught my attention and held it from start to finish. It moves at a slow but steady pace as if mimicking the slightly slower speed people adjust to when in the tropics. The pace is perfect though as nothing is rushed and the story seems to move at an appropriate speed without bogging itself down.

The acting is good the characters quickly defined with a touch of slight touch of cliché personalities but I think it helps to make the story move along by quickly separating the good from the bad and the mysterious.

Great period shots of cars fashion and the era of smoking abound giving those of us old enough to remember a nostalgic look at a period that was wonderful tumultuous and tragic all at once. This show has the right cast and it's future depends solely on where it's writers take it. Definitely worth a watch.