The problem for David Simon in creating a masterpiece like
The Wire
(2002) is that any subsequent production will always be compared to it, regardless of the quality of the new series.
This is the case of
The City Is Ours
(2022), based on the homonymous book by Justin Fenton and in which Simon is once again co-responsible for it.
The action takes place in Baltimore in 2015. Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man, dies of a spinal cord injury while in police custody.
The riots and looting in the city led to the Maryland State Attorney for Baltimore, Marilyn Mosby, announcing at a press conference that involuntary manslaughter charges would be filed against the six police officers involved in Gray's arrest and transfer.
It's the starting gun.
The six episodes of
The City Is Ours
(HBO Max) show a city, like so many others, in which drugs and violence are already part of the urban landscape.
The problem, or one of them, arises when a special police team, commanded by Sergeant Wayne Jenkins —masterfully played by Jon Bernthal— considers that cleaning the streets of drugs and weapons entails enrichment for themselves and their team.
Nothing is free.
Camels
are followed and chased
, arrested and imprisoned, but previously their money is stolen, which, as is known, is usually a lot.
The series, in fact, denounces police corruption above all, even though, finally, Wayne Jenkins and his special team suffered important prison sentences.
A remarkable series on police corruption and the efficiency of the judicial system.
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