We Own This City

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Season 1
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 25, 2022
User Score
5.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 33 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 33
  3. Negative: 11 out of 33
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  1. MetacriticOnur
    May 31, 2022
    3
    bad
    [ bad ]

    adjective, worse, worst;(Slang) bad·der, bad·dest for 36.
    not good in any manner or degree.
  2. Gasmask
    Jun 19, 2022
    2
    Do not believe any media telling you this is in any way shape or form anything like The Wire besides its geographical location.
  3. JimmyCricket
    May 17, 2022
    3
    As someone who thinks The Wire and The Shield are two of the greatest TV shows of all time, this is garbage. There is literally no story to it. Lazy, boring garbage.
  4. dumpster1845
    Apr 29, 2022
    0
    If you’re into woke BS and love hearing “defund the police” then this is the show for you. It is a preachy, angry, uninteresting piece of propaganda from the brilliant mind that gave us the masterpiece that was The Wire. Skip this one without a second thought.

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Metascore
83

Universal acclaim - based on 27 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 27 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 27
  3. Negative: 0 out of 27
  1. i
    Reviewed by: Ed Power
    Jun 8, 2022
    80
    It was a darkly fascinating study of American decline and fall.
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  2. Empire
    Reviewed by: John Nugent
    Jun 8, 2022
    80
    More of an epilogue to The Wire than a spiritual sequel, David Simon’s return to Baltimore is another intelligently crafted, angry treatise on America’s fatally flawed institutions.
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  3. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Rebecca Nicholson
    Jun 7, 2022
    80
    We Own This City throws a lot of information out there, from acronyms to procedural terms to shifting timelines, via a web of loosely connected characters. But this horrifying story will more than reward you, once you tune in to its beat.
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