CITY ON A HILL
Showtime, 9:00 p.m. ET
Last week’s series premiere of City on a Hill spent most of its time showing how such disparate characters as a crooked white FBI agent in Boston and a newly arrived crusading African-American district attorney (played, respectively, by Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge), could team up to solve a politically volatile murder and robbery case. In tonight’s episode, the show, and the characters, get down to business. This opens up City on a Hill to other actors as well, including Sarah Shahi, who co-starred on The L Word and Person of Interest and was especially good opposite Damian Lewis in Life, an excellent but little-seen series from 2007. Here, she plays a legal investigator who’s a bit brassier, and more Bostonian, than anyone she’s played before – and stands out so quickly and with initially so little to do, it’s hoped her role in City on a Hill expands. And, if not, she can leverage her scenes here to finally get the starring TV role she deserves.