We Own This City

Matt Roush says...

Returning to the Baltimore turf they explored so memorably in the classic The Wire, David Simon and George Pelecanos take viewers on another gritty odyssey into urban corruption in a six-part limited series depicting the rise and fall of the city’s Gun Trace Task Force. Led by superstar sergeant Wayne Jenkins (The Walking Dead’s Jon Bernthal), the task force’s achievements in gun retrieval and arrests were undercut by officers who shook down civilians, robbed from dealers and even sold some of the confiscated weapons. The Good Wife’s Josh Charles co-stars as one of the more brutal offenders, while the side of justice and honor is represented by Bosch’s Jamie Hector as a homicide cop and Lovecraft Country’s Wunmi Mosaku as civil rights investigator Nicole Steele.

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