DETROIT, MI -- It premieres tonight.

And some Detroiters who have been catching glimpses of its production around town for months aren't content to watch the first episode from their couches.

They're making a party of it

Low Winter Sun, the new AMC drama shot and set in Detroit, premieres at 10 p.m. Sunday.

The Baltimore Bar and Grill, one of the shooting locations for the show, is hosting a viewing party with doors opening at 6 p.m.

Detroit Blues musician Jeff Maylin set to perform before and after the show.

The Baltimore is near Greektown at 1234 Randolph Street.

Speaking of Baltimore, the show is drawing comparisons to the popular HBO series The Wire, which took place in Baltimore and ran from 2002 and 2008.

"A study of moral gray areas in a corrupt and failed city, a portrait of a detective and his demons, a metaphor for the deflated American dream as it stands in the new millennium... Low Winter Sun has a heavy agenda akin to the revered HBO series that weighed the relationship between the races and among the cops, criminals, unions and power players in that city," wrote Denver Post TV critic Joanne Ostrow.

"If Low Winter Sun can do for Detroit what The Wire did for Baltimore, that will be achievement enough, cast and crew agree."

Watch the first five minutes of the show below.

(Related: AMC's 'Low Winter Sun' looks deep into Detroit)

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