This looks damn good.

From David Simon, creator of The Wire and The Deuce...

We Own This City
Limited Series (6 Episodes)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14192504/
April 25, 2022
HBO + HBO Max

The Deuce was incredible.

Good to see Jay Landsman hanging in there at the BPD.

Herc too. Wonder if Fuzzy Dunlop will make a cameo.

aTmAg said:

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What besides The Wire has Simon done that is good? I found Treme (the little I did see) and Show Me a Hero to be boring as hell.

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Generation Kill was excellent

The Baltimore GTTF was a pretty ****ed up situation. While I can definitely understand feeling that sentiment viewing the trailer, there's enough in there to make be believe Simon will do good by it. But at the end of the day the subject matter is not a pretty look for the police so I don't know how you avoid telling it like it is.

TresPuertas said:

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Bunk Moreland said:

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The Baltimore GTTF was a pretty ****ed up situation. While I can definitely understand feeling that sentiment viewing the trailer, there's enough in there to make be believe Simon will do good by it. But at the end of the day the subject matter is not a pretty look for the police so I don't know how you avoid telling it like it is.

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i get it and agree with you and am holding out hope. Simon has earned that. I may be one of the few on here who actually enjoyed Treme and that certainly wasn't the nicest depiction of police (rightly so).

but it's hard for me not to watch something like the Wire, and Treme, and now this, which are all based in crime ridden hell holes, and have Simon complain that police are the problem.


Marlo as a cop should be fire though

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I don't think Simon has ever complained that police are *the* problem. His whole theory/theme/thesis has always been that the SYSTEM is what's broken/the problem, and police are merely a part of that system. There are good cops/bad cops, good politicians/bad politicians, drug dealers/prostitutes trying to do right but getting sucked back in, etc. I've always felt that Simon has shown a moral spectrum across a broader, broken system of ineptitude and corruptness, from the streets to the highest rungs of power, and the police just happen to be right in the middle of it all.

Bunk Moreland said:

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Herc too. Wonder if Fuzzy Dunlop will make a cameo.

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Fuzzy Dunlop said:

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Bunk Moreland said:

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Herc too. Wonder if Fuzzy Dunlop will make a cameo.

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TCTTS said:

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TresPuertas said:

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Bunk Moreland said:

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The Baltimore GTTF was a pretty ****ed up situation. While I can definitely understand feeling that sentiment viewing the trailer, there's enough in there to make be believe Simon will do good by it. But at the end of the day the subject matter is not a pretty look for the police so I don't know how you avoid telling it like it is.

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i get it and agree with you and am holding out hope. Simon has earned that. I may be one of the few on here who actually enjoyed Treme and that certainly wasn't the nicest depiction of police (rightly so).

but it's hard for me not to watch something like the Wire, and Treme, and now this, which are all based in crime ridden hell holes, and have Simon complain that police are the problem.


Marlo as a cop should be fire though

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I don't think Simon has ever complained that police are *the* problem. His whole theory/theme/thesis has always been that the SYSTEM is what's broken/the problem, and police are merely a part of that system. There are good cops/bad cops, good politicians/bad politicians, drug dealers/prostitutes trying to do right but getting sucked back in, etc. I've always felt that Simon has shown a moral spectrum across a broader, broken system of ineptitude and corruptness, from the streets to the highest rungs of power, and the police just happen to be right in the middle of it all.

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100% this. He shows police as flawed, but I mean, they are! The best thing about the wire was that every facet of the system was part of the problem, with the exception of the kids who were just fodder for the machine to screw up and chew up.

Great things happen when George Pelecanos and David Simon collaborate. pic.twitter.com/jgpX4YTMzg

— HBO (@HBO) April 23, 2022

The first few minutes of the intro, sucked me in this show. 20 years since the first season of The Wire, the millennial in me is now feeling old.

Now that Bosch ended, I'm glad to keep seeing Jaime Hector.

TCTTS said:

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TresPuertas said:

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Bunk Moreland said:

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The Baltimore GTTF was a pretty ****ed up situation. While I can definitely understand feeling that sentiment viewing the trailer, there's enough in there to make be believe Simon will do good by it. But at the end of the day the subject matter is not a pretty look for the police so I don't know how you avoid telling it like it is.

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i get it and agree with you and am holding out hope. Simon has earned that. I may be one of the few on here who actually enjoyed Treme and that certainly wasn't the nicest depiction of police (rightly so).

but it's hard for me not to watch something like the Wire, and Treme, and now this, which are all based in crime ridden hell holes, and have Simon complain that police are the problem.


Marlo as a cop should be fire though

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I don't think Simon has ever complained that police are *the* problem. His whole theory/theme/thesis has always been that the SYSTEM is what's broken/the problem, and police are merely a part of that system. There are good cops/bad cops, good politicians/bad politicians, drug dealers/prostitutes trying to do right but getting sucked back in, etc. I've always felt that Simon has shown a moral spectrum across a broader, broken system of ineptitude and corruptness, from the streets to the highest rungs of power, and the police just happen to be right in the middle of it all.

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wanted to come back here and eat crow after Ep 1. it's certainly critical of Baltimore PD but i didn't feel like it was over the top. so far it's being fair in showing all sides being culpable in Baltimore being a complete and total cluster F and it's got its hooks fully in me. i can't wait for the next one.

Poot, Marlo, Slim Charles already in ep 1.

inject this show directly into my veins

After all my anticipation for this show and watching episode 1, I am so happy OG David Simon is back in my life.