I didn't think I would enjoy
Quarry, but being somewhat familiar with the Max Allan Collins novels that it's based on (translation: I started the book but didn't finish), I gave it a shot. I was pleasantly surprised, and apparently so was Hank Stuever of the Washington Post:
Nothing’s better for a TV critic than falling in love with a show that didn’t sound like much on paper. Cinemax’s lean and mean new eight-episode drama “Quarry,” based on Max Allan Collins’s crime novels, is about Mac Conway (“Prometheus’s” Logan Marshall-Green), a Marine who comes home to Memphis from Vietnam in 1972 and finds little opportunity for a veteran of an unpopular war — so he reluctantly becomes a hired gun for an enigmatic crime boss who calls himself The Broker (Peter Mullan).
“Quarry’s” knack for conveying moral ambiguity and its mastery of setting remind me of another very good show that took forever to catch on: It was about a cancer-stricken chemistry teacher in Albuquerque who started cooking meth to make money. Don’t wait for the buzz that may or may not arrive — move “Quarry” to the top of your watch list now.
