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

[truth2you]

The reason they are different is because the corner was to show you the side of the addicts.

How they were before being addicts, how they were during being addicts, how they are trying to get off the drugs, and its effects on the family unit.

The wire was about showing the other side with the people who sold the drugs, how they operated, why they did it in the first place, and the outcome from selling

Then the wire also wanted to show how the system deals with both these groups

 

[smokeurobinson]

Seeing Lester Freeman, Daniels and his wife first playing fiends on The Corner only to turn around and play upstanding responsible law enforcers in The Wire forced me to acknowledge all 3 as great actors. I remember really being convinced that Daniels wife was a fiend. Tasha Smith played her role so well and she was new so I also thought she too was a real fiend.

 

[ISO]

Side note, why did we never really hear from Sean Nelson again after this? I always thought dude was a pretty damn decent actor. He was only about 20 when this show was out I believe.

He was on a TV series names Miracle’s Boys based off the Jacqueline Woodson novel on Teen Nick in 2005

Remember watching that show as a kid. It seems like all his roles were troubled inner city youth that’s the role he had on that show, and on Fresh and The Corner.

I hit the when I noticed he was lil Fresh

 

[UberEatsDriver]

You trippin, unless you a youngin.... that show was crazy, but depressing at the same time

The wire was crazy. The corner was sad as hell.

 

[Biscayne]

The Corner was amazing. Loved every sec of it. The cast was on point, and as others have pointed out, it felt amazingly real.

 

[I Really Mean It]

I thought it was entertaining and watched every season, but The Wire is low key It struck me as a patronizing take on black poverty from the perspective of a white liberal who thinks he's smarter than black people.

 

[ISO]

Reeka: I’m getting an abortion it’s $200 (actually free, not really getting an abortion)
DeAndre: Mom, Reeka's getting an abortion I need $400
Fran: Scoogie, DeAndre needs $600 to pay for his girlfriends abortion
Scoogie: $600?
but at the same time

 

[ISO]

Gary's downfalls was his choice in women.

He grew up in a god fearing household with both parents that instilled strong values in him and a good heart, he was smart and had a bigger scope of the world. Dude had a Benz, his own home development company, his own Victorian-styled house, several jobs, had went to college, had $150,000 he made off the stock market.

Fran and Ronnie were terrible for him. Mostly Fran since Ronnie came after the dope addiction.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Gary's downfalls was his choice in women.

He grew up in a god fearing household with both parents that instilled strong values in him and a good heart, he was smart and had a bigger scope of the world. Dude had a Benz, his own home development company, his own Victorian-styled house, several jobs, had went to college, had $150,000 he made off the stock market.

Fran and Ronnie were terrible for him.

Or maybe Fran had some good ass p*ssy

 

[KING WILL]

the corner was good.

the wire is the best show ever.

 

[Vandelay]

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.

 

[ISO]

When they asked Gary's pops what he would do about all the drug dealers

Gary's pops: I would lock them all up in the pen and run the gas chamber on all of their asses!
Cameraman: Are you serious about that?
Gary's pops: *stares at camera*
Cameraman: I didn't think so

 

[old boy]

i mean it's a little hard to compare because the wire had a much larger scope. the corner focuses mainly on how addiction affected the mc cullough family while the wire is about bureaucracies, the war against drugs and the city of baltimore. i think they're both real as hell to be honest


i was living in a foreign country when the corner aired so i had no idea of it's existence. was downtown brooklyn shopping one day and by sheer luck saw the DVD in a 99 cent bin. copped it off the strength of ole boy from fresh and the wood being on the cover. loved it right away and i've probably watched the corner at least 20 times or so since then. i just look at the wire as an extension of what simon and burns did on the corner basically. and like @smokeurobinson said it's crazy to watch it and see all the wire actors in the show, i mean there's literally tons of them

 

[old boy]

When they asked Gary's pops what he would do about all the drug dealers

Gary's pops: I would lock them all up in the pen and run the gas chamber on all of their asses!
Cameraman: Are you serious about that?
Gary's pops: *stares at camera*
Cameraman: I didn't think so

yeah man i love that scene too

and that actor who played gary's pops is in season 2 of the wire working on the docks

 

[Apollo Creed]

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