We Own This City TV Thread

[Jason]

New show from David Simon and some familiar faces and setting for all fans of The Wire

 

[Best]

New trailer, looking forward to this.

 

[Gemma]

Looks good. Probably the closest we will ever get to a season 6 of The Wire.

 

[Birdman]

Look forward to seeing this too.

I'd highly recommend the book this series is based on. It was only about £3 on the Kindle store.

It is scary the stuff they were getting up to.

 

[Siobhan]

Good first episode.

Bernthal is so compelling.

 

[Dylan]

Finished watching and I thought it was mostly excellent. It's a fascinating and grim true story, astounding what they were up to for years and from what I've read they actually toned it down a bit for this show. The civil rights part of the story was making some important points but felt a bit shoehorned in. Also, the time jumps got to be a bit much, especially in the last couple of episodes when you spent the first few moments of a scene trying to figure out what time period it was.

 

[Hera]

Finished this recently. There is a bunch of "The Wire" people involved, which is always nice. Not as good of course (the show feels more like a TV show instead of real-life docureality like The Wire) but it was good for sure.

Based on a true story about a corrupt Baltimore Police special unit. It also covers a bit of Trump coming into power and the dismantling of civil rights institutions in the US.