The six-episode series, which premiered Sunday on AMC, AMC+ and Acorn and continues with weekly episodes through Feb. 11, imagines a world where Dashiell Hammett’s iconic character, detective Sam Spade,
John W. Donohue, S.J., an associate editor of America from 1972 to 2007, was described by one Jesuit on staff as "a living rule. Were the Society of Jesus ever to lose its Constitutions, we would need only look to him to see how our life should be lived.”