TALES OF A CITY
DRAMA
USA
2019
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN'S TALES OF THE CITY is an American drama streaming television miniseries that premiered on Netflix on June 7, 2019, based on Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City novels. New scenario from earlier television adaptations of Maupin's books: the original Tales of the City in 1993, and the sequels More Tales of the City (1998) and Further Tales of the City (2001). TALES OF THE CITY consists of 10 episodes of 1 hour.
STORY: Middle-aged Mary Ann (Laura Linney) returns to San Francisco and is reunited with the eccentric friends she left behind. "Tales of the City" focuses primarily on the folks living in a house converted into an Anna Madrigal (Olympia Dukakis) apartment complex at 28 Barbara Lane. It is no longer a secret that Ms. Madrigal is transgender. Instead, she is haunted by something from her past.
GAY COUPLE STORYLINE: Michael "Mouse" Tolliver (Murray Bartlett) is Mary Ann's best friend from 28 Barbary Lane. Harrison (Matthew Risch) is Michael's ex-boyfriend. Ben Marshall (Charlie Barnett) is Michael’s younger boyfriend. Michael struggles to stop using condoms now that he's dating Ben who uses PrEP.
Michael Tolliver (Murray Bartlett) & Harrison (Matthew Risch) & Ben Marshall (Charlie Barnett)
MURRAY BARTLETT (2019)
May 7, 1988, Wuppertal, Germany
MATTHEW RISCH (2019) August 20, 1981,Salem, MA, USA
CHARLIE BARNETT (2019) February 4, 1988, Sarasota, FL, USA
SPECIAL: The new iteration does more than simply represent two generations of US queer culture: it makes the generation gap between them one of its themes. That’s most pointedly expressed in an electric scene, in which Mouse takes Ben to a dinner party. The African-American Ben is the sole person of colour amid a table of rich, white, older gay men, and when they start joking about ‘Mexican trannies’, he takes exception and calls them out on their offensiveness – only to enrage the assembled company.
AWARDS: ‘TALES OF THE CITY’ 2 wins & 4 nominations.
7.4 IMDB