The Corner Episode 1
Back in 2000, way before The Wire appeared on HBO and had the whole world going crazy over the realness and authenticity there was The Corner, a similar series based in Baltimore only it showed the other end of the drug game. The addicts, how the fiends lived, hustled for drugs, scammed each other, sold drugs, overdosed, etc.
I watched all four episodes and couldn’t believe the realness. The Corner, just like The Wire, was written by Baltimore Sun crime reporter David Simon and retired homicide detective Ed Burns. The two together managed to put together two of the realest American crime shows ever created & shown on television.
I still watch The Wire all the time and many of the cast from The Corner also have major roles in The Wire as well. They kept both series home grown for the most part. I think that’s what made the shows so realistic, from the stamp names on the heroin and the way the hustlers move to the slang they use. Baltimore has its own slang and dialect and you can hear it the way the cast speak in both joints. The whole thing, front to back in both series is unlike any other shows on television.
Anyway, The Corner, Episode 1 is posted, check it out. On another note, to see why The Wire Is One Of the Best Television Shows Ever Created.
The Corner is a 2000 HBO drama television miniseries based on the nonfiction book The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (1997) by David Simon and Ed Burns, and adapted for television by David Simon and David Mills. It premiered on HBO in the United States on April 16, 2000, and concluded its six-part run on May 21, 2000. The series was released on DVD on July 22, 2003. It won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries in 2000.
The Corner chronicles the life of a family living in poverty amid the open-air drug markets of West Baltimore. “The corner” is the junction of West Fayette Street and North Monroe Street (U.S. Route 1).
