The full trailer for We Own This City, the new TV series developed by George Pelecanos and David Simon, and directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green, has been released ahead of its debut on the small screen this coming summer.
Jon Bernthal (The Walking Dead), Wunmi Mosaku (Lovecraft Country), Jamie Hector (The Wire) and Josh Charles (The Good Wife) lead the cast of the new series, set within a specific police department – the Gun Trace Task Force – in Baltimore.
According to an official press release, the series will hit screens in June.
Here’s the official synopsis in full:
In the 2000s, the Baltimore Police Department struggled to respond to crime with meaningful police work, giving itself over to mass arrest and drug warring instead. WE OWN THIS CITY shows how the department’s desperate reliance on statistics over substance eventually led to the inability of department officials to supervise the Gun Trace Task Force and the further inability of the department to discipline rogue police. At the time of the GTTF scandal in 2017, though there were numerous indications of corruption within several plainclothes units going back almost a decade, Baltimore police commanders held to the belief that any street unit that could bring in guns and drugs consistently had to be championed and protected. WE OWN THIS CITY depicts the inevitable corruption of a unit given this carte blanche.
Check out the brand new trailer below.
