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Showtime’s Brotherhood is TV’s newest take on sibling crimes and misdemeanors

Comments (0) By Robert Abele Wednesday, Jul 5 2006
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Getting their Irish up: The mobbed-out brothers and sisters of Brotherhood (Photo by Norman Jean Roy/Showtime)
Getting their Irish up: The mobbed-out brothers and sisters of Brotherhood (Photo by Norman Jean Roy/Showtime)

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Film guy Phillip Noyce (Clear and Present Danger, The Quiet American) directed this Sunday’s pilot, and it doesn’t feel a whole lot like the rest of the season: Noyce has a dynamic visual style of camera movement and wide-angle close-ups that at times is unnecessary augmentation to an already sharp, clever, pointed script by creator/executive producer Blake Masters. But it makes for a punchy debut episode to a gripping new series, one that longtime Sopranos fans may find more satisfying in its emotional payoffs than the sometimes hollow half-dramas in that New Jersey clan’s most recent season. Brotherhood is vividly drawn, intelligently acted, and for all the occasional dialogue lapses (of the “I’m nothing like you” school of writing), this is a mosaic of manipulation, tortured duty and familial hand-wringing that at its best recalls the heyday of big-city corruption auteur Sidney Lumet.?

BROTHERHOOD | Showtime | Sundays, 10 p.m.

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