Mosaku co-leads the show’s unreasonably stacked cast as the perfect foil to Bernthal’s brash, loudmouthed Sgt.
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You expect a woman in her position, fighting tooth and nail against everyone, to implode, to snap and let her emotional side come out, at least at some point, and yet she remains the grounding wire of the entire series - always calm, always listening. It’s a lead that serves her well, especially after she was so excruciatingly underused in last year’s Loki, as a woman so very level-headed that it’s almost frustrating to watch her maintain her composure. Wunmi Mosaku brings a talent accrued from a number of UK crime dramas to US screens as Nicole Steele, a member of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice and a fresh face amongst the various FBI agents and members of the Baltimore Police Department. To that end, the show’s timeline can find itself lost and doubling back on itself, hopping between years and tracing lines of inquiry that may leave some confused if they pay the half-amounts of attention that some have made a habit of in the streaming age. The series has quite a lot of information to contend with, following upwards of three, four, five plot strings at any given time, a complicated route to the ultimate conviction of a number of plainclothes Baltimore police officers. There’s something refreshing about the way he and co-writer George Pelecanos approach the contemporary crime drama - which shouldn’t surprise me, given my love for Show Me a Hero - and their pairing with Green, whose work on last year’s King Richard netted serious Oscars buzz, proves to be a thought-provoking examination of a broken system, examining the “how did we get here?” as much as the “how do we put an end to this?”
Though I’m not familiar with Simon’s previous work on The Wire (welcome to being born in 1998), that doesn’t seem like a barrier for entry to this show. From the jump, We Own This City is about the underhandedness of saying something with a smile while pressing a knife into someone else’s back it is about choices, dirty choices, and voluntary ones at that. Wayne Jenkins goes on to couch this statement by saying that there is nothing lawful about those kinds of desired encounters, that they are the work of little more than impulse and irrational thinking, but the point is very much there. Directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green, the sequence seems innocuous on the surface, a police sergeant giving a speech to a room of trainees about the right and wrong ways to go about meeting the quotas set by their superiors. I’m here to talk to you about the ones you want to have.” Those are some of the first words out of the mouth of Jon Bernthal, series lead and star of HBO’s We Own This City, the newest in a lineup of political and procedural dramas from creator David Simon. “I’m not here to talk to you about the fights you have to have.
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