Darklighter10 t1_j677dwe wrote on January 28, 2023 at 5:06 AM

If you want CLASSIC Boston TV that isn’t Cheers, you want to start with all the Robert b Parker books and film you can get. He has the Jesse Stone series which is set in a small town. You then have classic Spenser: For Hire and A Man Called Hawk.

https://www.amazon.com/Spenser-Hire-Complete-First-Season/dp/B07TLYVQVQ

Something more lighthearted, Boston Legal is pretty great. The show Fringe is also set in Boston.

For documentary try “This is a Robbery. It’s about a famous museum heist and must have knowledge for these parts. There is also one on Netflix called “How to fix a drug scandal” about a few police drug lab bombshells that happened (relatively) recently

moxie-maniac t1_j68tu7p wrote on January 28, 2023 at 3:58 PM

Robert B. Parker got his PhD at BU, then was an English professor at Northeastern, I believe until the second Spenser book was successful, then move on to just writing.

The funny part about the Spenser TV series was him finding a parking place in front of each and every Boston location he had to visit. Sometimes the writers/producers would make odd mistakes, cops searching the junkyards in Revere or something, when there are no junkyards in Revere.