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Executive producer Michael Hirschorn said the idea for the series came to him after he saw 2009’s Broadway revival of “West Side Story” and thought the tale of rival gangs could somehow be turned into a reality show.
But after an exhausting two-year search, instead of gangsters, he discovered what he said was a far more authentic tale of betrayal.
“The Bay Ridgeness [of the characters] came through,” he said.
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