The Corner on HBO

[BaconTastesGood]

Finally got around to watching this. Has a lot cast members in common with The Wire (and a couple from Oz), and with Khandi Alexander in a role where I'm not cringing at her acting (I've only seen her in Newsradio and CSI:Miami, and she's 'okay' in the former and downright annoying in the latter).

The tone is VERY similar to The Wire, notably depressed and tragic. Anyone else watched it?

[Ben]

Yeah, it was pretty good, but not The Wire good. A pretty unflinching look at addiction.

[Hawkeye Fierce]

Finally got around to watching this. Has a lot cast members in common with The Wire (and a couple from Oz), and with Khandi Alexander in a role where I'm not cringing at her acting (I've only seen her in Newsradio and CSI:Miami, and she's 'okay' in the former and downright annoying in the latter).

The tone is VERY similar to The Wire, notably depressed and tragic. Anyone else watched it?

I believe the same folks were responsible for The Corner as are responsible for The Wire.

Try reading the book sometime, if you really want to see "depressed and tragic." Yikes.

[Alan Dunkin]

The Wire is kind of a series spiritual successor to The Corner, featuring some of the same actors (the sheer need for a wide variety of black actors in Baltimore) and minor characters that are cross-series related to one another in some form or fashion.

--- Alan