Century City is an
American science fiction-
legal drama television series set in
Los Angeles in the year 2030.
Synopsis
The show follows the legal
team of Crane, Constable, McNeil & Montero. At the helm are the firm's four partners, the founder and senior partner Hannah Crane; veteran
attorney Marty Constable; the pleased-with-himself attorney Darwin McNeil; and the former
Californian Congressman and newest partner, Tom Montero. The team is supplemented by the ambitious enthusiasm of two young associates, the self-critical and earnest Lukas Gold and the genetically enhanced first-year associate Lee May Bristol.
With the developments of
cloning cells,
genetic profiling, mind-altering
antibiotics and even
virtual rape, the attorneys of Crane, Constable, McNeil & Montero find themselves with an ongoing case-load of precedent-setting cases. In a time when lawyers can go before
judges as
holograms, the firm takes on such morally and ethically ambiguous cases as parents suing their
doctor for withholding critical results of their unborn child's genetic mapping; defending a man accused of
robbery for "stealing" back his
identity from his ex-
fiancée who has uploaded his presence and personality; protecting the rights of a woman who has been virtually raped through
nanotechnology; and defending a
rock star who refused to alter the laws of
human nature to help his
band stay on top. The attorneys are exceedingly aware that progress and development bring both luxuries and challenges. Tackling uncharted legal territory,
Century City provides an eye-opening look into the issues confronting society in the year 2030—the not-so-distant future.