We Own This City

[capt_oats]

Already mentioned in The Wire thread but all episodes went up on Sky Atlantic last night so am diving in to this later.

David Simon, Jon Bernthal and a ton of familiar faces from The Wire - am absolutely here for this. 

The Watch podcast had George Pelecanos on the other day.

[Rodhull]

Watched the first episode and thought it was decent. Bernthal's accent threw me a bit at first but I guess that maybe is what a Baltimore accent sounds like?

Edited June 8, 2022 by Rodhull

[Albus Bulbasaur]

Is this only going to be on SKY? I've got a basic ass package, I'm presuming it's Nowtv for this sort of stuff? 

Looks class. 

[KD1711]

I've read the book and the book was absolutely fantastic, looking forward to watching the TV show.

[Squalor Vic]

Absolutely loved it. It'll suffer from wire comparisons probably but i thought it was excellent. Could definitely watch it as almost a 6th season. Great fun playing spot the wire actor too

[Don Diego De la Vega]

On 18/06/2022 at 10:03, Squalor Vic said:

Absolutely loved it. It'll suffer from wire comparisons probably but i thought it was excellent. Could definitely watch it as almost a 6th season. Great fun playing spot the wire actor too

Taken me until the 3rd episode to realise it was Marlo in the suit, amazing what a pair of specs and a wee beard does

 

Edited June 22, 2022 by Don Diego De la Vega

[Wee-Bey]

I've got one episode left.

It's been pretty fucking good tbh.

[The Golden God]

Got one episode to go. How can Marlo look younger 15 years later?

Got to give it to boy who plays Collichio/Jenkins. He really does have a face only a mother could love. It’s not close to wire levels for me with all the jumping back and forth but still good.

[The Golden God]

Also did not see the IRA quote coming during the 2nd episode.

[ArabGaz]

Just on episode 3 and Marlo (Suiter) is speaking to a young cop in uniform about a gun shot call. The cop is only Duquan Weems! Sheeeeeettt!

 

 

Edit - i’ll have to stop looking for the minor ex-Wire characters! Marla Daniels & Donut also spotted.

Edited June 27, 2022 by ArabGaz

[J_Stewart]

We watched it over the weekend, and I thoroughly enjoyed it, but only criticism being that it probably could have done with another episode or two to flesh things out further. Was constantly mentioned how Jenkins was this visionary cop that knew the streets and how to speak to people to find leads, and then, almost no examples of it. In fact most of the time, the leads seemed to be coming from Jemell and his women. Just made me think that instead of being this brilliant operator that we were told about, Jenkins was really more of a sociopathic alpha male. Didn't make him any less interesting, but just a bit odd. Would have liked to have seen a bit more of the county police and how they helped develop the cases too.

Minor quibbles though, the acting throughout was excellent. 

Edited July 4, 2022 by J_Stewart

[Bairnardo]

I really enjoyed this. The delusions of Jenkins in that he was doing nothing wrong and his boys would back him up slowly unravelling was very buyable.

All of the actors were good though as said. It was a bit jumpy on the timeliness but I really enjoyed it.