This City Is Ours review – there is zero emotional depth to Sean Bean’s new gang drama

The fantastic performances don’t do enough to lift this scouse Sopranos. There’s an essential emptiness at the core of this generic show“I sort of hope they all die,” is never the reaction a television drama wishes to evoke. But in relation to the drug-running family the Phelans and their colleagues and connections that make up This City Is Ours, that just might be your response.Sean Bean plays cocaine-smuggling patriarch Ronnie Phelan, who has enjoyed a long career domin