We Own This City (2022)

Watchseries; Jamie Hector who played Marlo Stanfield in Wire is a cop now.

The show stays clear of cop show stereotypes. It rings true, a blank feeling created by the lack of music, just like the Wire.

Actors back the quality writing.

Jamie Hector who played Marlo Stanfield in Wire is a cop now.

The show stays clear of cop show stereotypes. It rings true, a blank feeling created by the lack of music, just like the Wire.

Actors back the quality writing.

We Own This City watchseries. There are moments when I just had to stop and go back - 'was the acting really THAT terrible just now?' - and yes, it was. It is FULL of moments that completely takes you out of the show due to wooden talent-less attempts at reading lines. I had some hopes for this show but man, it is rough to listen to. Hard pass for me. 1/10!

This has nothing in common with the hit series The Wire, also done by HBO, except for a few familiar cast members that crossed over. First of all, it's all over the place, jumping from scene to scene before the audience gets a chance to figure out who's who.

The camera work is shoddy. High school film class shoddy. The music is poor, but that's minor. Most of the characters are forgettable, Jon Bernthal does his best but it's not going to keep my interest. Other characters have just boring lines or are just hand cuffed spouting a poor script.

This is done on a low budget and anyone can see it's not the usual top quality HBO production. It just feels off in every scene. About the only thing worth watching is waiting for corrupt cops to get caught, and the first episode doesn't even show how or why.

Just a whole lot of wondering how this passes the HBO quality control. Perhaps they fired the old guard and hired 19 year olds and this is their definition of good. It's not.

This show is so "good" that I am unable to follow what is going on, I was afraid of that as I had a similar experience with the wire. I figured that was because of some of the unfamiliar slang. I'm hanging in though as I did with the wire, hoping at some point I will have enough comprehension of what is going on that I can appreciate the good writing. I just wish it were not so darn hard to follow.

Huge fan of The Wire and it's cast I've been looking forward to this. It's obviously not connected to TW but looks like it is.

Loads going on in this first episode and I'll need to rewatch it before E02 but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Hersl looks like the stereotypical bad cop which we will no doubt see much more of.

When writing this review only the 1st episode is out , and waouh what a super cool wild ride. Extremely captivating , very interesting characters and story.

Totally recommend and hopefully the upcoming episodes will be as good as the first !!!

9/10.