{"id":30053,"date":"2022-06-24T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30053"},"modified":"2022-06-24T07:11:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T11:11:46","slug":"we-own-this-city-2022-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30053","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We Own This City&#8221;\u00a0(2022) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z062422zview_weownthiscity.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\"><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>We Own This City<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em>(2022)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Developed by:&nbsp; <strong>George Pelecanos, David Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Teleplays by:&nbsp; <strong>George Pelecanos<\/strong> (Parts 1 &amp; 5),<strong> David Simon<\/strong> (Parts 1 &amp; 6), <strong>Ed Burns<\/strong> (Parts 2 &amp; 4), <strong>William F. Zorzi<\/strong> (Parts 2 &amp; 4),&nbsp; <strong>D. Watkins<\/strong> (Part 3),<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Directed by:&nbsp; <strong>Reinaldo Marcus Green<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:&nbsp; <strong>Jon Bernthal, Wunmi Mosaku, Jamie Hector, Josh Charles, McKinley Belcher III, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Rob Brown, Don Harvey&nbsp;<\/strong>and <strong>Seth Hurwitz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:&nbsp; None.<\/p>\n<p>The Overview:&nbsp; Beware of spoilers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>We Own This City<\/em> is based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Qs2jKG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the nonfiction book of the same name by Justin Fenton<\/a>, a reporter for the Baltimore Sun.&nbsp; <em>We Own This City<\/em> follows a task force created to deal with rising crime.&nbsp; Baltimore PD&#8217;s shining star, Sgt. Wayne Jenkins builds a team to take guns and drugs off the streets. Although successful, under Jenkins&#8217; watch, the strike force steals drugs and money from their busts.&nbsp; They also plant evidence and lie under oath.&nbsp; Numerous complaints leads to an investigation which shows widespread corruption throughout the force and gives lengthy jail sentences to those sworn to protect and serve.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>We Own This City<\/em> features excellent writing, direction and an amazing cast lead by Jon Bernthal (who should receive an Emmy nomination).&nbsp; Josh Charles is great as the unlikable Daniel Hersl.&nbsp; McKinley Belcher III from <em>Ozark<\/em> and <em>The Passage, <\/em>is always good.&nbsp;Seth Hurwitz is perfect as the slimy bail bondsman who helps Wayne Jenkins move stolen drugs.&nbsp; &nbsp;Kudos also to Kris Bowers for his music.&nbsp; &nbsp;<em>We Own This City<\/em> easily earns 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z062422zview_weownthiscity2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Own This City&nbsp;(2022) Developed by:&nbsp; George Pelecanos, David Simon Teleplays by:&nbsp; George Pelecanos (Parts 1 &amp; 5), David Simon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,72,50,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-history","category-tv","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30090,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30053\/revisions\/30090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}