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Starz’s ‘Hightown’: TV Review

11.07.2020 - 07:08

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By Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic Sometimes, a setting has to do a bit too much work. “Hightown,” a new drama series on Starz, takes place in Provincetown — the gay mecca and artists’ enclave on the tip of Cape Cod.

And while the series puts great effort into exposing other sides of the community, it doesn’t, elsewhere, transcend fairly simple character types, dragging us instead into recursive storytelling that’s outshone by the local color.

Jackie Quinones (Monica Raymund) is the character we follow most closely; she works for the National Marine Fisheries, but is drawn both into endemic local crime around the heroin crisis and deeper into her own addiction when she stumbles upon the dead body of a young woman in the water; she comes