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  • HBO
  • Apr 16, 2000
  • HBO
  • Apr 16, 2000

Summary Based on the nonfiction book "The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood", by journalists David Simon and Edward Burns, The Corner presents the world of Fayette Street using real names and real events. The Corner tells the true story of men, women and children living amid the open-air drug markets of West Baltimore. It ...

  • HBO
  • Apr 16, 2000
  • HBO
  • Apr 16, 2000
The Corner
Season 1
Season Premiere: Apr 16, 2000
Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 21 Critic Reviews
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90
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 16 User Ratings
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Summary Based on the nonfiction book "The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood", by journalists David Simon and Edward Burns, The Corner presents the world of Fayette Street using real names and real events. The Corner tells the true story of men, women and children living amid the open-air drug markets of West Baltimore. It ...

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Episode 1 • Apr 16, 2000 • 1 h 4 m
Gary's Blues
34 year-old Gary McCullough has seen four years of drug addiction strip him of his money, his career, and his family. Now he has one mission: to get his next drug fix.
Episode 2 • Apr 23, 2000 • 59 m
DeAndre's Blues
DeAndre spends his life walking a fine line between childhood and maturity - a very fine line, since both of his parents are addicts, and he's been dealing drugs since he was 13 years old.
Episode 3 • Apr 30, 2000 • 1 h
Fran's Blues
Fran has her own drug habit that her son has so far avoided, but DeAndre, still a child, helps support his mother and younger half brother De'Rodd by selling cocaine on the corner.
Episode 4 • May 7, 2000 • 59 m
Dope Fiend Blues
Attempting to go straight, Gary gets a seasonal job at the crab market where he worked in his youth. When an addict gets shot, a local artist named Blue realizes the time to clean up his life is now or never.
Episode 5 • May 14, 2000 • 1 h
Corner Boy Blues
Things are going well for Fran, who proudly moves the family into a new home, but not so well for Gary, who loses his job as the crab season ends.
Episode 6 • May 21, 2000 • 1 h 14 m
Everyman's Blues
The entire Boyd family gathers for Thanksgiving, a celebration that also marks the birth of DeAndre's son.

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 21 Critic Reviews
90
95% Positive
20 Reviews
5% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Universal Acclaim Based on 21 Critic Reviews
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95% Positive
20 Reviews
5% Mixed
1 Review
0% Negative
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100
Sep 19, 2013
It is also stunning, compelling and thoroughly, empathetically human. [14 Apr 2000, p.11E]
By Robert Bianco FULL REVIEW
100
Sep 19, 2013
Relentlessly intense and depressing, ferociously written and spectacularly acted. [14 Apr 2000, p.135]
By Eric Mink FULL REVIEW
100
Sep 19, 2013
The Corner is a marvel - a powerful testament to the crumbling inner city, the Catch-22 of urban social services, and the strengths and vulnerabilities of the human spirit. [16 Apr 2000, p.K-09]
By Joanne Ostrow FULL REVIEW
90
Sep 19, 2013
But what's amazing, maybe even revolutionary, about The Corner is this: as its narrative plays out in six laid-back, detail-packed, one-hour installments, you come to see that all the major characters don't belong in this place, in this life. [16 Apr 2000, p.1]
By Matt Zoller Seitz FULL REVIEW
90
Sep 19, 2013
Powerful stuff. [16 Apr 2000]
By Chuck Barney FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 19, 2013
Even to an audience growing increasingly used to gritty televised fare,it's a tough look, indeed. [26 Apr 2000, p.3E]
By Bill Goodykoontz FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 19, 2013
Assuming the perspectives of its characters, the series avoids cliches and condescension; the performances are remarkably free of the cheap mannerisms actors often resort to when playing addicts. But this insiders' view is still undermined by the tone of a cautionary tale. The fact that the series makes a plea to understand the characters' humanity, rather than a judgment about them, doesn't make it less didactic.
By Caryn James FULL REVIEW

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88% Positive
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13% Negative
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