If The Wire represented the world after the fall, The Corner represents hell. Unfortunately it is a true story and the majority of the people represented in this series are dead today. In some ways, the multi-format portrayals (onscreen interviews with Charles S. Dutton and characters as played by actors, dramatic representations of current life & idealized flashbacks) may have been better served on a stage than in a tv show since the transitions were noticeably jarring & didn’t follow a consistent pattern from episode to episode. It did work during the last episode when the actual people portrayed were interviewed by Charles S. Dutton. Warning: graphic drug use and 2 or 3 scenes of animal abuse.