We Own this City

We Own This City examines corruption within Baltimore's Gun Trace Task Force, drawing on journalist Justin Fenton's reporting. It brings David Simon and George Pelecanos back to a city where the institutions are as important to the drama as the individual personalities.

Jon Bernthal's Wayne Jenkins is a forceful presence, combining professional swagger with behaviour that becomes increasingly difficult to separate from the unit's operating culture. The story extends beyond him, asking how misconduct is enabled, overlooked and eventually investigated.

Its connection to The Wire is an obvious reason for interest, but this is a separate dramatisation of real events rather than another season of that fictional world. The shorter shape gives it a concentrated, uncomfortable focus. It is strongest when showing the routine decisions that let abuse become part of how an organisation works.