# The Corner (2000)

> A year on Baltimore's Fayette Street follows a teenager, his parents, and the addicts and dealers caught in the heroin and cocaine trade.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/13538

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 6
- Episode runtime: 60 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama, crime
- Network: HBO
- Cast: T.K. Carter, Khandi Alexander, Sean Nelson, Clarke Peters, Glenn Plummer, Toy Connor, Tasha Smith, Maria Broom
- TMDB rating: 8.5/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0224853/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: gritty, harrowing, observant, bleak, unsentimental

## What critics say

Audiences rate the miniseries as acclaimed for its unflinching, non-judgmental portrait of addiction and street life in West Baltimore.

## Synopsis

The Corner (2000) is an American limited series created for HBO, a gritty true-story miniseries of six hour-long episodes set in West Baltimore. Drawn from real people and real events on Fayette Street, it centers on fifteen-year-old DeAndre McCullough (Sean Nelson) and his parents, Fran Boyd (Khandi Alexander) and Gary McCullough (T.K. Carter), whose addictions pull the household into the open-air drug markets outside their door. Around them move addicts and low-level dealers such as Fat Curt (Clarke Peters) and George 'Blue' Epps (Glenn Plummer), each caught in the twin-engine economy of heroin and cocaine. The engine of the miniseries is the daily struggle to get money, get high, and get by, with each episode built from small hustles, failed attempts at recovery, and the quiet costs borne by children. The series unfolds across a single year, building a dense, unsentimental portrait of addiction as a family condition. Its tone is somber, observant, and harrowing, with a documentary-like patience that never looks away. Viewers who admire the unflinching social realism of The Wire and the documentary grounding of Trapped will find much to recognize here. It remains one of television's most sobering portraits of urban drug life.

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