Before "The Wire" was "The Corner" ...

The six-part "The Corner" comes from the producers Mills and Burns, who a few years later with The Wire - The Complete First Series have created (DVD Boxset) probably the best ever series in TV history.

Be told the true stories of Fran Boyd (Khandi Alexander from CSI: Miami - Season 1.1 (3 DVDs)), her ex-husband Gary McCoullough (TK Carter from the last Americans) and their common son DeAndre (Sean Nelson from Fresh). They all live in a dilapidated "Black District" by Baltimore. While Fran and Gary are heavily addicted to drugs and spend their trawl gekratztes money for any kind of drug to DeAndre hired on the street corner (= The Corner) as a drug dealer. As far as the initial situation.

In contrast to the brilliant "The Wire" to "The Corner" exclusively focused on the people and stories within the ghetto. The police and other figures appear only on the edge. Is to say that the events are told exclusively from the perspective of Fran & Co.

Director Charles S. Dutton manages the feat, the audience the main characters, but also minor characters such. B. Fat Curt (Clarke Peters from "The Wire") by the minute to bring you all closer. Although they are not always necessarily represented sympathetic, you fever if you're watching them with.

At the beginning and end of each episode Dutton leads each an interview with its main characters. In between there are always brief flashbacks that show images of better days of the figures and their slow descent into drug swamp.

Special mention should find the final episode. At the end tells Director Dutton, what has become of the main u. Besides figures. But Great time to think or even grieve not remains to the viewer, because immediately afterwards an interview with the real figures to give said corner follows. What a bombastic conclusion for this excellent miniseries.

If you look more closely, it is one or the other cast members from "The Wire" recognize who but here assumed other roles. In addition to the above Clarke Peters is among others also Lance Reddick seen in a small role as a drug-addicted friend of Fran.

For specifications, I am referring to the present me US double disc. But I am working on the assumption that the here offered EU import will be failed identical. English subtitles are switched on. Picture and sound are appropriate for a television series and give no reason to complain. As extras merely Episodenrückblicke- are u. Previews as well as some film biographies before in writing. Too bad, there was more to it.

Conclusion: A high-class drama series with 6 hours battery life, which actually represents a must-buy for fans of "The Wire". One can "The Corner" but also look quite without previous knowledge.