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You’ve heard of The Wire, but have you seen The Corner?

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This writer classifies “stoner gold” as a show one can spend an entire night re-watching. Shows that must be watched chronologically to let the story develop, every time. The Wire is one of those shows. It’s almost too good of a show. It’s stoner gold because it raises deep ass questions our lifted brains crave and then it convincingly answers them so our over-dabbed minds can get to sleep at night. But did you know The Wire had an older brother?

Before The Wire there was, you guessed it, The Corner, a six part miniseries run on HBO in 2000 based on the nonfiction book The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood by David Simon and Ed Burns and adapted for television by Simon and David Mills.

Cut The Wire in half to just the hood and then focus on just that pure, We$t Baltimore. The Corner is raw even by The Wire’s brutally candid standards.  Imagine watching a bonus season of The Wire through the eyes of a drug hardened family on the hardest corner in West Baltimore. Now since you were probably stoned anyway, imagine if the characters occasionally broke the fourth wall and talked to you. Crazy shit I tell you and a truly remarkable show.

I know I wasn’t the only baked HBO GO junkie doing the “dope fiend lean” for more Wire. This Emmy award winning mini-series certainly delivered. Honestly, I gotta admit I don’t know where it was hiding. I probably have seen The Wire eight times through (if you haven’t, see The Wire, seriously) and read fan/Wiki pages for hours in between, but I’d never heard of The Corner.

However, it went down as all good things should. I was nicely tuned up one night and surfing. I stopped on HBO Signature, saw one frame and exclaimed (to no one) “that’s West Baltimore!” stalled for a few more and realized I WAS NOT watching The Wire. Bong! Best stoned discovery ever.

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