We Own This City on OCS: An Extension of The Wire?

With the same creative team (David Simon, George Pelicanos and Ed Burns) as on The Wire and on the same topics, it is no surprise that the mini-series We Own This City, which airs every Tuesday on OCS, is comparable to a work leader. Since the 2000s.

The two shows are actually located in the city of Baltimore and explore the war on drugs, which seems unprepared to end, even 20 years after the two creatures of David Simon. However, strictly speaking, this is not a sequel as we do not find the same characters there.

Moreover, if The Wire relied on David Simon’s experience as a journalist The Baltimore Sun.We own this city, inspired by the book The city belongs to us Written by another journalist from the same newspaper, Justin Fenton.

The work, which tells the true story of corruption in the Baltimore Police Special Forces, revealed in 2017, where a series from the 2000s, albeit a very entrenched reality, was a completely fictional character.

We own this city also shows that The Wire has failed to bring about a major hopeful change in the system, yet just as broken as the drug problem has worsened in Baltimore and many cities in the United States. As well as corruption in the police.

Both series do more than share themes, they also have common actors (respectively, in different roles). Delaney Williams, who played Sergeant Jay Landsman in The Wire, plays Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis in We Own This City. Character Marlo Stanfield Translator, Jamie Hector, Detective Sean M. Sweater camps.

Trey Cheney (Poot Carr in The Wire) is Gordon Hawke, Drug Detective, Bobby J. Brown (Officer Bobby Brown in The Wire) now plays a member of the Gun Trace Task Force, as well as Darrell Britt-Gibson (O-Dog). In The Wire). Finally, Nathan Corbett (Donut in the Wire) plays the criminal, while Dominic Lombardoz (Detective Herk Holk in the Wire) plays the head of the police union.