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

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

Nothing dumbed down about The Corner. It literally felt like a documentary. That's how realistic it felt. The dialogue, the chemistry, the acting, were all on point.

I can dig it, I'll try to find a way to check it out.

 

[Real]

Uh oh. U gonna upset the wire dikk lickers

 

[Geechiedan214]

Put down the pipe

David Simon a white man produced both but the corner seemed more how Baltimore would be for someone who never been there.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

I can dig it, I'll try to find a way to check it out.

All of the episodes are on youtube.

 

[sayyestothis]

I haven't even heard of the corner......

Neg

 

[DPresidential]

Both of those shows have the same creator: David Simon The book was even by David Simon: a white man

Breh didn't think this thread through.

 

[Dont@Me]

Neg

Neg eaten

 

[HUSSLA'S P.]

Hungry man was a fiend on The Corner.

Lester Freeman was Fat Pat. A nikka with big ass hands from shooting dope.

nikka who arrested Orlando, was a young cat on there.

The Landscape Business owner who helped Cutty, really did have a Pretty SL, back then. He ain't eeennn lie.

 

[Rell84shots]

I haven't even heard of the corner......

The series basically birthed The Wire. The show gets a perfect 10 from me because of how raw it was, and TK Carter's character was the saddest of them all.

 

[HUSSLA'S P.]

The series basically birthed The Wire. The show gets a perfect 10 from me because of how raw it was, and TK Carter's character was the saddest of them all.

nikka Gary was doing good.

Like a Coli poster in that Homeless Thread said, "Never get involved with a Dopehead bytch".

 

[Piff Perkins]

There is nothing "dumbed down" about The Wire.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

There is nothing "dumbed down" about The Wire.

Two of the main characters who are supposed to be born and raised on Baltimore are played by British actors who...at times do a horrible job hiding their British accents.

 

[HUSSLA'S P.]

Two of the main characters who are supposed to be born and raised on Baltimore are played by British actors who...at times do a horrible job hiding their British accents.

What difference does that make? Dudes had passion for the roles.

 

[Piff Perkins]

Two of the main characters who are supposed to be born and raised on Baltimore are played by British actors who...at times do a horrible job hiding their British accents.

What the hell does that have to do with the show being "dumbed down" lmao? The OP suggests one show is authentic and the other isn't as much, which literally is not true.

Who cares where the actor is from. It's his job to act. Anyone here gonna argue Idris Elba is not a great actor? Any casting geniuses here gonna pass up Idris Elba to select a worse local actor because he's from Baltimore and has a better accent? No.

The Wire is the arguably the smartest television show ever, and one of the grittiest. It never holds the audience's hand, it never felt cheaply melodramatic, and it never got the city or its people wrong.

And yea, both shows were created by Simon and based on books he wrote. Based on his time as a reporter in the city.

 

[Hejdå]

I remember watching The Corner as a kid and being depressed as fukk because I was living in the same type of environment. That show wasn't good for my young mental for sure lol