When? HBO announced a new series David Simon and George Pelecanos Background scenario of the fight against drug trafficking and police corruption in Baltimore, comparisons theWire they were inevitable. The masterpiece of this showrunner, whose first episode aired 20 years passed It ranks high on many lists of the greatest television series of all time, which aired on June 2. For this reason, “the city is oursIt was seen as a possible secret sixth season of The Wire, but in the end it didn’t. Needless to say it didn’t need it. While The Wire was a work of fiction, the new work of the Simon/Pelecanos tandem they start from a real case: A corrupt police unit that both attacks the drug dealers it persecutes and extorts money from citizens who are paid for their protection. The title of the new series becomes the battle cry of a group that believes they are above the Law, with a sense of immunity guaranteed by the Donald Trump Administration.
Despite having the occasional black sheep in the troop, The Wire’s protagonists still retained some idealism when they went up against the grain to try to decapitate the city’s drug gangs. Everyone who watched the series remembers this saying very well. “Follow the money” and Jimmy McNulty’s children (Dominican West) began to enter certain puddles that punctuate the areas of highest power. In the last season, they were derailed when they used a false claim to unlawfully disrupt a phone. Years later, Simon and Pelecanos returned to Baltimore to the dismay of the city’s Tourism offices, showing us a bleak picture and the message of how the war on drugs is already doomed to failure. targeting the most vulnerable classes of society.
Jon Bernthal (The Walking Dead, The Punisher) plays Wayne Jenkins in The City Is Ours, the leader of a special unit within the Baltimore Police who eventually hides behind their badge and becomes a criminal organization that acts with complete impunity, which is something in favor of the system because it’s corrupt. agents were the ones with the best arrest statistics. cop thugs were made fat in the neighborhoods where the poorest lived. Of course, some of his victims had a history to mask their abusive actions. Complaints of police brutality were recognized as occupational hazards and shelved, while resentment and distrust of the forces of order were created and accumulated in the streets. Bernthal’s performance is one of the highlights of the series, and in some episodes it goes beyond its depth. See you on the lists this year’s emmy. emphasizes its role. Josh Charles (The Good Wife) as Agent Daniel Hersl, another member of the rogue unit. although his character is much more fuzzy and he knows very little. The city is ours, it seems the best performances were saved for the bad.
described in the series different time planes and this is where perhaps one of its greatest burdens resides. It’s hard to know at what point we are in each flash black. The intrigue begins with the disbanding and arrest of this corrupt police unit, and through the interrogations of the suspects, we travel back in time remembering the great successes between their crimes. How’s It Going From Being Jenkins? A big word from the Baltimore police to someone worse than the criminals he’s after, Somewhere along the way, you discovered this It’s much easier to jail chicken robbers than powerful people whose lawyers can crash an entire investigation. just for one technique. At some point along the way, he realizes that it is all too easy for a mistake during the intervention to disappear from the money involved or to use some of the confiscated doses to resell on the market. From there, we went straight to organized robberies in drug dealers’ homes, knowing that no one would report it. The narration jumps from one moment to the next and you have to be very careful not to get lost there.
Somehow, the other Simon series can be seen as a sequel to The Wire, although they are set in other times and cities. Simon’s years of experience as Event writer for the Baltimore newspaper they were in their masterpieces before they went on television, which is why the plots and characters had such a realistic twist. This clear style has been preserved in later titles. It doesn’t matter if we’re in Baltimore in New Orleans after Katrina. tremblingor the birth of the New York porn industry in The Deuce’s 70s. Choral stories that reflect the inequalities of a system. Maybe The City Is Ours has a more cinematographic and less documentary language than its predecessors, but the message is still there.