The Black Donnellys

It feels like Haggis and Moresco are picking up right where “EZ Streets” left off.

What we have here is accomplished and absorbing television.

Haggis equates the slow revealing of character and plot with classy writing; you'll probably experience it as stuff you can see coming a mile away.

Ultimately "The Black Donnellys" pales in the light of its lofty influences.

Unfortunately, the young actors on display aren’t compelling enough to make us care much beyond their sometimes stupidly self-induced crises.

To say these guys are stereotypes does insult to the clichés they clumsily represent.

NBC sent out five episodes; I sat through three before throwing the DVD on the Donate to Public Library pile. I would like to apologize in advance to the library.