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Created by | Peter Moffat |
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Music by | Laura Karpman |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 16 |
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Network | AMC |
Release | April 10 May 29, 2022 | –
61st Street is an American legal drama television series created by Peter Moffat that premiered on AMC on April 10, 2022. A second season was produced;[1] however, in January 2023, AMC decided against airing it.[2] In May 2023, The CW acquired the series,[3] airing season one again in the US on July 22, 2023, on The CW app exclusively and then airing it on linear TV in October 2023, and Season 2 is set to premiere on July 22, 2024.[4]
Moses Johnson, a promising, black high school athlete, is swept up into the infamously corrupt Chicago criminal justice system. Taken by the police as a supposed gang member, Johnson finds himself and his lawyer Franklin Roberts in the eye of the storm as police and prosecutors seek revenge for the death of an officer during a drug bust gone wrong.
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
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1 | 8 | April 10, 2022 | May 29, 2022 | AMC | |
2 | 8 | July 4, 2023 | August 15, 2023 | Stan |
No. overall | No. in season | Title [5] | Directed by | Written by [6] | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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1 | 1 | "Pilot" | Marta Cunningham | Peter Moffat | April 10, 2022 | 0.392[7] |
2 | 2 | "The Hunter and the Hunted" | Marta Cunningham | Olumide Odebunmi & Tolu Awosika | April 17, 2022 | 0.215[8] |
3 | 3 | "Barefoot and Dangerous" | Ramaa Mosley | Allison Davis | April 24, 2022 | 0.223[9] |
4 | 4 | "Chess Moves and Poker Chips" | Ramaa Mosley | J. David Shanks | May 1, 2022 | 0.216[10] |
5 | 5 | "Over the Wall" | Ali Selim | Sarah Beckett | May 8, 2022 | 0.175[11] |
6 | 6 | "Sins of the Fathers" | Ali Selim | Frank Baldwin | May 15, 2022 | 0.161[12] |
7 | 7 | "The Two Trials" | Darren Grant | Olumide Odebunmi & Tolu Awosika | May 22, 2022 | 0.168[13] |
8 | 8 | "Man on Fire" | Darren Grant | Peter Moffat | May 29, 2022 | 0.159[14] |
No. overall | No. in season | Title [15] | Directed by | Written by [6] | Original release date |
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9 | 1 | "After the Morning After" | Solvan 'Slick' Naim | Allison Davis | July 4, 2023 |
10 | 2 | "Trust Me" | Solvan 'Slick' Naim | Sarah Beckett | July 4, 2023 |
11 | 3 | "Do No Harm" | Michael Trim | Frank Baldwin | July 11, 2023 |
12 | 4 | "Kamikaze" | Michael Trim | Olumide Odebunmi & Tolu Awosika | July 18, 2023 |
13 | 5 | "Two Truths and a Lie" | Erin K. Feeley | Allison Davis | July 25, 2023 |
14 | 6 | "Argue the Facts" | Erin K. Feeley | J. David Shanks | August 1, 2023 |
15 | 7 | "The Offer" | Ramaa Mosley | Frank Baldwin | August 8, 2023 |
16 | 8 | "Judgement Day" | Ramaa Mosley | Frank Baldwin | August 15, 2023 |
In February 2019, AMC began development on 61st Street which was created by Peter Moffat who is executive producing alongside Michael B. Jordan and Alana Mayo.[16] In October 2019, AMC greenlighted the series and gave it a two-season order,[17] with each season consisting of eight episodes.[18] Series star Courtney B. Vance serves as an executive producer.[19]
In January 2020, Courtney B. Vance, Tosin Cole and Bentley Green were cast in the series.[18][20] In May 2020, Eric Lange was cast in the series.[21] In February 2021, Holt McCallany replaced Lange; and Aunjanue Ellis, Killian Scott, and Andrene Ward-Hammond were cast in the series.[22] In March 2021, Jerod Haynes was cast in the series.[23] In May 2021, Mark O'Brien replaced Killian Scott as Officer Logan in the series.[24]
The series was originally set to premiere in 2021.[18] The premiere was delayed and it premiered on April 10, 2022.[25] The second season of the series had already been filmed, but was dropped by AMC as part of cost-cutting measures announced in December 2022.[2] In May 2023, The CW acquired the series.[26] The second season premiered on July 4, 2023 on Australian streaming service Stan.[27]
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 69% approval rating with an average rating of 6.2/10, based on 16 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "61st Street is situated smack dab in a clichéd zip code of television drama, but terrific performances by Courtney B. Vance and a strong supporting cast provide some local attraction."[28] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 66 out of 100 based on 11 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[29]