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We Own This City Vs The Wire: Which Is Better?
Both We Own This City and The Wire are, in their own ways, iconic shows. We Own This City is a sobering, sucker punch of a mini-series. A true story of police corruption, dramatized and pulled together by the iconic duo George Pelecanos and David Simon, who both laid the project's dramatic foundations with The Wire. Both set in Baltimore, both unveiling the ugly side to policing and the institutions that enable it, and both written by Pelecanos and Simon, comparisons between the two were always going to be inevitable. The complete series of The Wire is a cultural juggernaut and picking a better show between the two almost seems unfair. But there are certain features that elevate one above the other.
