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The Corner

Name: The Corner
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 2000-04-16
Cast: T.K. Carter, Khandi Alexander, Sean Nelson, Clarke Peters, Glenn Plummer

2000 | 1 seasons | 60 min | Crime, Drama

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Why it’s a Sunday Safe Bet

Critics loved it (100% on Rotten Tomatoes), though it had a small audience. A safe bet when you want something reliable.

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Is it for you?

Who'll love it: Made for crime-drama fans. If you loved The Wire or Sons of Anarchy, start here.
The mood: Dark and gritty.
The pace: One season: easy to finish in a weekend or two, hour-long episodes, about 6 hours in all.
What might put you off: Rated TV-MA: expect drug use.

The Corner presents the world of Fayette Street using real names and real events. The miniseries tells the true story of men, women and children living amid the open-air drug markets of West Baltimore. It chronicles a year in the lives of 15-year-old DeAndre McCullough, his mother Fran Boyd, and his father Gary McCullough, as well as other addicts and low-level drug dealers caught up in the twin-engine economy of heroin and cocaine.