Tales of the City

Tales of the City (2019)
Mini-series - 10 episodes (2019 June 7)

Netflix Original Series

Availability: Global

1 season

Plot:

A revival of Armistead Maupin's San Franciso set Tales of the City, Mary Ann (Laura Linney) returns to present-day San Francisco and is reunited with her daughter Shawna (Ellen Page) and ex-husband Brian (Paul Gross), twenty years after leaving them behind to pursue her career. Fleeing the midlife crisis that her picture-perfect Connecticut life created, Mary Ann is quickly drawn back into the orbit of Anna Madrigal (Olympia Dukakis), her chosen family, and a new generation of queer young residents living at 28 Barbary Lane.

Links:

• Announcement
• Casting Announcements - Paul Gross Returning
• Watch the teaser 
• Tales of the Generations video  
• Watch the trailer  
• Tales of Your City Podcast - Prism: New York - Sylvia's Stonewall video 
• The Dinner Party video

Trivia: 

• Original cast members Laura Linney and Olympia Dukakis return as Mary Ann Singleton and Anna Madrigal. 
• This originally aired with both actors in 1993. 
• The revival would be a modern take on the LGBT themed series set twenty five years later, possibly shot in San Francisco.  
• Tales of the City was the first of nine books where Maupin explored alternative lifestyles and San Francisco culture.
• Ellen Page joins the cast as Shawna.
• Reported on October 22, 2018 that Zosia Mamet was cast as Claire Duncan, a documentarian who has a burgeoning relationship with Shawna (Page) that catches them both off guard.
• Reported on February 12, 2019 that the series will open the 62nd edition of the San Francisco Film Festival on April 10, the first time episodic content has opened the festival.

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