We Own This City Part One Review (HBO Max)

We Own This City Part One Review (HBO Max): We Own This City (The city is ours), a classic police drama that, despite not having any direct connection with The Wire, draws directly from its timeless legacy.

The six-episode miniseries is based on the popular non-fiction novel We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption by American investigative journalist Justin Fenton.

We Own This City Part One Review

The series can get a bit dense and even confusing at times as it unfolds almost two decades of history through multiple points of view and timelines, but at the end of the day, it does an excellent job of telling the story in a meaningful way.

Broadly speaking, this narrates the meteoric rise and subsequent fall to the hell of the Baltimore Police Department’s Weapons Tracking Task Force, a unit whose members chose to sink into corruption, becoming over the years a dangerous group of thugs who instead of ensuring the safety of their citizens was dedicated to abusing their power in every possible way.

Theft of large amounts of money and/or drugs, beatings, illegal detentions, manipulation of evidence, planting false evidence, etc., etc. As the title of the series says, the city was his. Everyone knew it and hardly anyone stood up to them. The bureaucracy and the unwillingness of the high officials of the city police did the rest.

Its greatest exponent, and therefore the center of everything we see on screen, is Wayne Jenkins (Jon Bernthal), whom we follow from his early days in the BPD to his glory days as a Sergeant of the aforementioned GTTF. Little by little, what began with small cases of inappropriate behavior ended up escalating until Jenkins became one of the greatest exponents of police corruption in recent US history.

Him and everyone who accompanied him. Some spent more time by his side, others were part of a more important form of the beach bar he had set up, but all had their part to blame for the failure of an outdated system that was no longer even capable of offering the minimum guarantees to people. who trusted him. and, above all, those responsible for applying its laws.

Detectives Daniel Hersl (Josh Charles), Maurice Ward (Rob Brown), Momodu Gondo (McKinley Belcher III), and Jemell Rayam (Darrell Britt Gibson) are some of them.

Unlike Jenkins, the series not only tells their stories from the point of view of the action or the case at hand but also recreates the long interrogations -and their detailed confessions- to which they were subjected by the team led by Erika Jensen (Dagmara Dominczyk).

In short, We Own This City doesn’t exactly stand out for being something new, but it is a solid product and very well crafted in all areas and concepts. He knows what he wants to tell, he knows how to do it, and he does it wonderfully. Starting this Tuesday, every week a new episode on HBO Max.

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