![]() ![]() Fans of The Wire are required to watch The Corner if you have not yet done so. There is some light, but thin and so hard-bought that it's almost a form of darkness itself. Just a lot of relentless despair and - this is the darkest and most chilling part - flashbacks to better lives than the ones in the scene, that aren't just informing the audience, but you can actually see them going through the minds of the characters. It's just this quiet, slow-building Tragedy Train that will run you the hell over.Īnd there are no distractions - none of the Wild West / war film gangster stuff from The Wire (although there a few understated scenes of violence), not much in the way of procedural, and barely any of the high-level intellectual explorations or humor. ![]() Every scene in The Wire that breaks your heart, that's 90% of The Corner, but not presented in a melodramatic way that would let you build any kind of psychological defense against it. It's brilliant and powerful, which is why it received a lot of accolades and actually led (if I understand correctly) to the decision to greenlight The Wire.īut somehow - and I didn't realize this was possible - The Corner is more depressing than The Wire. For those who don't know, before The Wire, HBO put out a 6-episode miniseries called "The Corner" that takes place in the same Baltimore neighborhoods and is basically a docudrama presentation of real lives. The Conners spent a lot of Season 5 exploring Darlene and Ben’s complete life reversal as a newly married couple living together, outside of Dan’s house, with Darlene’s professional life. ![]()
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