We Own This City Episode 1 Perfectly Flips The Wire's "Omar Comin" Scene
Warning: This post contains spoilers for We Own This City episode 1.
HBO's belated The Wire follow-up, We Own This City starts with a spiritual homage to Michael K Williams' Omar Little that flips the iconic «Omar comin'» sequence from the first season. While the shows are different, with The Wire taking in a broader portrait of Baltimore's institutions and their relationship to law enforcement, both tell important stories from the city. Both are also told through the lens of David Simon, though We Own This City is based on the book by fellow Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton.
Like Omar's role in The Wire, Jon Bernthal's Wayne Jenkins sits on a throne built by his actions — and those of his fellow corrupt GTTF members. In both David Simon shows, Simon tells the story of normal people's lives impacted by institutions of control, on both sides of the judicial coin. As Simon said of The Wire, the object was always the truth, and less whether good people were good and bad people were bad, but We Own This City seems to draw a far more defined moral line, with Bernthal's corrupt sergeant at the epicenter.
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We Own This City opens to a voice-over by Bernthal's sergeant Jenkins, in a role that flips his Punisher for Marvel's Netflix shows, rather chilling passing on his street-hewn wisdom to new recruits on what passes for acceptable brutality. And to back up his talk, We Own This City shows him walking the streets of Baltimore almost casually swinging his nightstick, as locals flee from his path. While they say little, it's clear his reputation goes before him, and though We Own This City is not The Wire's sequel, this scene is particularly reminiscent of
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