We Own This City

Before we dive into the dark murky waters of HBOS We Own This City let us journey back to 2008 and the final season of HBOs The. Justin Fentons nonfiction novel of the same name adapted by Simon and Pelecanos The Wire is.

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. The Wire was an incredibly influential TV show and often depicted police brutality as a necessary evil but it ran from 2002-2008. We Own This City is a ruminative show with a multitude of moving parts too many in fact. We Own This City.

The limited series We Own This City is about to debut on HBO It begins Monday and dramatizes the book of the same name which chronicles abuses by Baltimores police department. It dramatizes the real-life abuses and crimes committed by police officers in Baltimore. Those words arrive in the middle of a.

NPR TV critic Eric Deggans talked about the project with two executive producers who first teamed up on another landmark HBO series about policing in. If The Wire defined the futility of the drug war -- and not incidentally ranks as one of the greatest series ever made in the eyes of a loyal few --. We Own This Citys first episode concludes with the arrest of Sgt.

We Own This City premieres on Monday April 25 at 9 pm. Wayne Jenkins who led the task force at the time. While We Own This City returns to the familiar streets of Baltimore that audiences of The Wire and Homicide have watched for nearly 30 years the new HBO limited series is neither a sequel or a continuation of Simons earlier work.

The other officers arrested included Momodu Gondo Evodio Hendrix Jemell Rayam. No matter what youre doing on those streets by the time you walk into any courtroom in the city your word prevails. HBOs limited series We Own This City debuts tonight.

We Own This City an HBO Max miniseries out April 25 about a Baltimore Police Department BPD task force unit that went rogue highlights some of the biggest concerns with modern policing in.

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