FabledGentleman

From David Simon, the Creator of "The Wire" (hereby called TW), comes this series which tells the true story of Baltimore's gun trace taskforce, a unit of corrupt police officers who stole money from the citizens during regular stop and frisk and arrests. All eight officers in this task force were arrested in 2017 and later convicted.

The story travels forth and back in time, so that we see how and why things turn out the way it did. Just like David Simon did with TW, you see there is corruption on every level, nothing is pure black and white. It's a story of morality, and how messed up a system can be if bad apples are allowed to slip through.

This show is a near perfect follow-up to TW, where they established the drug problem and violence the city is facing. The gun trace taskforce was established in 2007, which is between Season 4 and Season 5 of TW.

Many of the same actors that were in TW are also present here, though in different roles, and they are all doing a great job.

Now, i have noticed this show receiving little attention, and a bit too much of the attention seem to be overly negative. This is surprising to me, but on the other hand, it's not. People calling this show woke for example, has probably never seen TW, or been to Baltimore. If this show is woke, well so was TW. Baltimore has a 63% black population.

TW was also a show that had a hard time reaching out to it's viewer base to begin with, some great shows just needs time to reach it's core audience. And to this day, TW is considered by most to be one of the, if not THE best TV series of all time. And "We Own This City", is on a steady track to follow in it's footsteps.

Well I'm only 3 episodes in so far, but i can honestly say, i can't keep my eyes off the screen. The cops that was behind these crimes, are both fascinating and disgusting to follow, and I'm glad they all went down in the end.

So far this show is a 9/10. I might write a more detailed review when the show is done. If you are a fan of TW, this is a must see, a slow burner, dialogue heavy show, that tells a true story of wide spread corruption and fraud. Love it.

Gary Oldman is truly one of the all time great actors, always on top of his game in every role, no matter the movie. Doesn't matter if the script is bad, or the plot is off, Gary delivers, always has, always will. Or did we just turn the tide on that one?

This series starts off OK, the mystery keeps the plot going through the first two episodes. The tension is there, and you are a bit on the edge of your seat wondering where this is going. But then, half way past episode 3, you really start to notice that this plot is absolutely improbable.

When i was done with episode 4, i was shaking my head in disbelief, and after episode 5 i was almost puking. This show makes every mistake known to man, except actually putting "academy award winner Gary Oldman" on the poster.

The script is terrible, the characters are stereotypical, the plot completely off rails, the story is predictable and lazy, the editing is uninspired, the directing is completely by the book.

By episode 5, Oldman is trying his best to keep his character plausible and relevant in this rather impossible plot, but you can clearly see he isn't up for the task, and that's saying something, when we are talking about one of the greatest character actors that has ever lived.

I really wished this show was great, but instead it's simply bad. Two first episodes felt like a 7/10, it wasn't great, but it wasn't bad either, it was good, and i hoped it with start to climb as the plot thickened. But instead it all falls apart and goes downhill with impossible plot twists, bad writing, countless clichés , and the show just tumbles over the edge and gains momentum into the abyss.

The writers of this show thought that creating an endless amount of coincidences could make their story plausible, they were wrong.

3/10 - Bad.