Chuck MacLean

Writer

Biography

Chuck MacLean is a Boston local who grew up in the suburb of Quincy, went to Emerson College in Massachusetts (before transferring to the University of Southern California in Los Angeles for film school) and did stints as a journalist for the Patriot Ledger and the Boston Herald.He describes experiences from his rough-housing youth with the police and such as contributing to his inspiration for the TV series City on a Hill (2019).

Filmography

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City on a Hill

In early 90s Boston, an African-American District Attorney comes in from Brooklyn advocating change and forms an unlikely alliance with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran invested in maintaining the status quo. Together they take on a family of armored car robbers from Charlestown in a case that grows to encompass and eventually upend Boston’s city-wide criminal justice system.

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The Instigators

Rory and Cobby are unlikely partners thrown together for a heist. But when it goes awry, they team up with an unusual accomplice — Rory's therapist — to outrun police, backward bureaucrats, and a vengeful crime boss.

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