The Corner vs. The Wire is the difference between a show directed by someone black vs. someone white.

[Reece]

The Corner is too sad to watch

 

[ISO]

I need to go back and finish The Corner. Saw it as a kid but lost HBO and never got to finish it.

It's on YouTube.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Not sure why people have to dump on the Wire to big-up The Corner. The Wire is about the closest to perfection a dramatic TV show has ever been. I keep saying it, shyt was like contemporary televised Shakespeare. There weren't too many shows before it that were that intricate with how street life was and from a majority black perspective. The Wire was gritty and raw...it just didn't focus on the addicts themselves, but the whole system that causes the drug trade and the addict condition. Season 2 and to a lesser degree Season 5 are the only black eyes the show has, and I might have to re-watch it again to really get the full-effect of it.

I may check out the corner, but I've had and still have addicts very close to me in my family so it'll be a hard watch.

1. The Corner was more intricate, and authentic than the wire as most of the characters were based on real people. Only a handful of characters from the wire was based loosely on actual people.
2. Season 2 of the wire is the most underrated. I mean Avon was locked up so it's not like they could focus solely on the streets.
3. The wire didn't focus on the addicts at all except for Bubbles, and he was basically the get ouf of jail free card for season 1.

The thing that irked me about the wire is that a lot of who the story played on with the investigations was based on dumb luck with the exception of season one and season 4.

 

[ISO]

Camera Man: So did you ever try to quit?
Gary: My folks sent to Fayetteville, North Carolina
Camera Man: So what happened?
Gary: *looks hopelessly at camera* There’s a corner there too

 

[Knowledge]

Nah, you would get baller blockers and hot boyz if a black person made it

 

[LevelUp]

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

The corner will leave you depressed

 

[How Sway?]

I remember stumbling on the corner back when I was like 11 or 12. Shyt had me depressed for a minute. Not gonna lie.

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

 

[KingsOfKings]

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

a white man created both of these shows breh (David Simon)

Edit: I see you already know that. I agree the Corner was more “raw” If you been around fiends for real then you know that shyt was pretty much spot on. The Corner did not make any part of that street life look glamorous. And I like the fact that it really depicted street life in the inner city.

The Wire was more easy to digest. I can see the Corner being too much for some people. The Wire was gritty but not too heavy. The story telling was great in the Wire. Corner was almost documentary style even though it didn’t intend to be. With the wire you are rooting for or against certain characters, but you know they are actors. With the Corner, it’s so real, that you really feel bad for these mothafukkas and forget they’re actors. I thought no some of the cast was untrained locals like the Wire if I’m not mistaken.

For me, the Wite was more entertaining, but I took the Corner more serious. If I’m trying to entertain someone, I put in the wire. If I’m trying to scare someone straight or show
them a cautionary tale, I put on the Corner

100%.

Plus The Wire is showing "more" shyt, from the streets to the Mayor's office. It's not going to be as gritty because political games simply aren't as gritty as dope fiends.

 

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

I remember how both of these shows came out “roughly” around the same time (2000, 2002) and my sister was about to graduate high school in Denver.

She decides to go to college at Morgan State in Baltimore and after watching both of these shows I’m looking at her like

 

[Henny and_ HotWings]

They're both realistic

Right! Like what is this dope talking about?? No offense to him

But both are amazing and remarkably realistic… especially when you compare it to today’s shyt

 

[NinoBrown]

Both are masterpieces and depressing, there are no heroes and the cycle of violence and bloodshed was encouraged by our government.

And our people are blissfully unaware of it...

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Snowfall is close