The limitations of making an HBO-style drama on basic cable become readily apparent when arguments climax with an underwhelming “Screw you!”
Even the aging players have a settled sense of place.
Its opening credits are not an ordinary credits sequence, but a series of four short films that distill each season’s themes, goals, and motifs.
Varied as the street characters are, their African-American counterparts in the police department are just as individualized.
The film revisits an Alphabet City virtually unseen since Paul Morrissey’s vibrant gangland dramedy Mixed Blood.
Wolfe delivers a solid DVD package for Evans’s film.
A hugely ambitious and hugely successful crime epic whose plot tentacles just keep on spreading, wonderfully so.
While the film’s obsession with race and representation may be intellectual, its justified anger and inquisitiveness is tempered with great sensitivity.
The best crime show out there, deserving of any and all hype.