Critic Reviews

Copper has much to recommend it: action, passion and great performances arising from an exploration of classic American themes.

It's both a promising and foreboding series, with class warfare an ever-present force that wants no part of any idealized forms of truth, justice and the American way.

Filmed with a muddy palette, the premiere hums with menace. There's lots of low-down action, with brass knuckles applied.

The characters hold promise, the show looks swell, the stories reflect rich history and the makers have earned our trust.

Copper spins somber stories of gold.

The semi-procedural widen its scope, bringing in more civic intrigue without losing any of that Law & Order: Historical Stabbing Unit grime. [21 Jun 2013, p.60]

Those [dialogue] imperfections never jolted me out of the spell Copper casts.

Its unyielding moral passion, exemplified in the character and pursuits of its hero, Detective Kevin Corcoran (Tom Weston-Jones), is the life force that propels this powerful--and powerfully violent--tale of New York City, 1864.

A half-dozen plots routinely swirl around Copper, banging into each other. Levinson and the cast never let them unravel.

The second hour is more engrossing than the first, and is easily rich enough to keep us coming back for more.