Police Mistakes, Corruption, Investigation … It’s We Own This City, The Wire Series Developer’s New Series

The story of the Baltimore Police Weapons Tracking Working Group. This task force is designed to prevent violent criminals from taking to the streets of Baltimore amid rising killings in the city. The unit functioned as a full-fledged criminal organization, with agents stealing money from people they suspected, conducting illegal searches, gathering evidence, and extorting money from drug dealers. Based on a book by journalist Justin Fenton.

We Own This City The mini-series on OCS on US + 24 runs on Tuesday, April 26, one episode a week. Watched episodes: 3/6.

To embody the characters of his new creation, David Simon has found several of his former actors from The Wire. Namely, Jamie Hector, the gangster known as Marlo Stanfield in the cult series, who goes to the other side of the law here as a criminal detective, or Darrell Britt-Gibson, who played O-Dog in The Wire and who plays a police officer in the Gun Trace Task Force. From we own this city.

Also present is Delany Williams, Sergeant Jay Landsman, who started in 2002 and is here to become Baltimore Police Commissioner. David Simon has also been offered roles in actors from his other series, such as Don Harvey (The Deuce), whose character investigates the corrupt police department We Own This City or McKinley Belcher III (Show Me a Hero) and Rob Brown (Treme), both of whom play the role. Group members.

This also applies to two newcomers to the world of screenwriting: John Bernthal, nicknamed Shane in The Walking Dead or the former Netflix Marvel series Punisher, and Josh Charles (Le Cercle des Poètes Disparus, The Good Wife). Wunmi Mosaku (Lovecraft Country, Loki) plays a Justice Department attorney, while Dagmara Dominczyk (Inheritance) plays an FBI agent investigating the GTFF.

Twenty years after the debut of The Wire, the series now known as one of the greatest television works of all time, its creator, former journalist David Simon, and his frequent collaborator, author George Pelekanos, are returning to Baltimore.

Created by the duo for HBO, like all of their work, we own this city, the action takes place in this iconic city of the cult series. All episodes were directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green (Williams Method) and screenwriter, producer and former Baltimore Police Investigator Ed Burns also participates in many projects after collaborating with David Simon.

Such personalities are behind the camera and this return to the source, i.e. the miniseries were eagerly awaited by the fans of the soap operas and should not disappoint you. Based on a real-life case told in a book by Justin Fenton The city belongs to us Published in France by Sonatine Editions, the show is in line with its predecessor, but also The Shield, another popular series at the police station using strict and not always legal methods.

Compression in six episodes of this incredible tale about corruption was not a small achievement, but the creative team manages it with imagination. Clearly documented and ultra-realistic, the series immerses viewers as close as possible to its characters, who are numerous and juggling the present, the fall of the Gun Trace Task Force between 2017 and the past.

From Sergeant Wayne Jenkins’s journey (charismatic Bernadette, excellent) from graduating from academy to apprenticeship on the streets, to setting up this famous department, and behind the scenes of the corruption and racketeering system he created. For an investigation launched in 2015, the story is compelling and shows how these abusive police officers managed to act with impunity for years in a city where they were asked for even more arrests, leading to numerous deviations.

Temporary reciprocal travel (not always easy to guess) and multiplication of views (we also follow, for example, a civil rights lawyer trying to shed light on discrimination by Baltimore residents) and consistent distribution, we own this demanding city.

And it proves once again how much David Simon can x-ray the flaws of the American police system in a city where, twenty years after The Wire, little has changed …

When Barack Obama interviewed David Simon on The Wire: