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Tales of the City Netflix release date: How many episodes are in Tales of the City?


Netflix is releasing a lighter show for audiences following on from dystopian drama Black Mirror season five and Ava DuVernay’s harrowing miniseries When They See Us based on the real-life Central Park Five case. Tales of the City has been adapted from the books of author Armistead Maupin and sees a woman returning to her home in San Francisco after two decades. The series coincides with global Pride Month and shares interconnecting tales from the wonderfully colourful LGBT+ residents of 28 Barbary Lane.

How many episodes are in Tales of the City on Netflix?

Tales of the City was released on Netflix today (Friday, June 7) with all 10 episodes from the show made available in one go.

The show follows Mary Ann Singleton (played by Laura Linney) who is reunited with her daughter Shawna (Ellen Page) and ex-husband Brian (Paul Gross) after 20 years when she returns to San Francisco.

Over the course of the series, audiences will learn why Mary Ann decided to leave and pursue a different life and career in Connecticut.

Here is a list of episodes from Tales of the City on Netflix:

  • Episode 1. Coming Home
  • Episode 2. She Messy
  • Episode 3. Happy, Now?
  • Episode 4. The Price of Oil
  • Episode 5. Not Today, Satan
  • Episode 6. A Touch O’ Butch
  • Episode 7. Next Level Sh*t
  • Episode 8. Days of Small Surrenders
  • Episode 9. Rainbow Warriors
  • Episode 10. Three of Cups

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Mary Ann will be trying to heal the deep wounds within her own family and mending her relationship with the community living at 28 Barbary Lane, who are all taken under the wing of kindly landlady Anna Madrigal (Olympia Dukakis).

On top of that, Mary Ann will be trying to make amends with those living at Barbary Lane and save it from threats to its future.

The show takes its cue Maupin’s novels and follows on from Channel 4’s 1993 groundbreaking series of the same name, which caused controversy in the US when it was broadcast on PBS the following year.

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Tales of the City concentrated on the lives and loves of LGBT+ and straight characters alike as they thrived in San Francisco.

In 1998, fans got a follow up called Armistead Maupin’s More Tales of the City produced by US network Showtime.

Armistead Maupin’s More Tales of the City proved to be so popular, it was nominated for five Emmy Awards including nods for Outstanding Miniseries and lead actress Dukakis.

The new series on Netflix sees the cast reprising their roles after 20 years.

Tales of the City first began life as a serialised newspaper column in 1976 in the San Francisco Chronicle and later the San Francisco Examiner, which imagined the lives of a group of people living at the fictional residence.

Maupin wrote a total of nine novels with the latter four being published as books rather than being serialised and the final one published in 2014.

“I was nervous, Maupin told The Guardian. “Turning your baby over to these other people, and God knows what they’re going to do to it … ”

However, his fears were quickly allayed by the programme-makers. “Soon as I saw the scripts, I knew they were not only on the right track, they were going to make me sound hipper than I was.”

Linney, who stars in the show and serves as an executive producer, said: “It felt like, ‘Oh, this might actually happen.’ I could tell it was the right time, and I could tell there was a different kind of interest.”

She went on to say of the 2019 series: “The thing that’s wonderful about what’s happened now, as opposed to then, is that these stories are now being told by people from the LGBTQ community.”

“All of our writers are queer. All of our directors are queer. That wasn’t possible in ’93. It’s a shift, and it’s an important one, that these stories are being told by voices that are authentic. I’m very proud of that,” Linney added.

Tales of the City is out on Netflix now

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