George Pelecanos
- News & Opinion
Showing 1 - 10 of 10 articles tagged "George Pelecanos"
-
Posted Monday 4/25/22 at 11:45PM EDT
HBO's We Own This City is its own compelling story in limited series form, differing from The Wire in both intention and execution
"It is impossible to watch We Own This City without thinking of The Wire," says Jen Chaney of the HBO...
-
Hein’s TV Picks: David Simon’s Baltimore Return Doesn’t Disappoint
Jon Hein knows TV.
-
Posted Wednesday 8/25/21 at 4:45PM EDT
The Wire's George Pelecanos inks an overall deal with HBO that will include the drama series The Last One Left
Under the two-year deal, Pelecanos will develop and produce original content for the network, while continuing to serve as co-showrunner...
-
Posted Friday 3/05/21 at 2:51PM EST
The Wire's David Simon and George Pelecanos are returning to Baltimore for an HBO police corruption limited series
Simon and his longtime collaborator, crime writer Pelecanos, are adapting investigative journalist Justin Fenton's book We Own This City: A...
-
Posted Tuesday 10/29/19 at 3:15PM EDT
The Deuce's "cheesy" finale undermined the entire series
In the David Simon HBO pornography drama's nostalgic final moments, "I felt a pang of betrayal from a series that...
-
Posted Tuesday 10/29/19 at 5:28AM EDT
David Simon on The Deuce series finale: "We literally wrote the last scene first"
"The last scene of the show was the only one we had written in our heads when we started the...
-
Posted Wednesday 9/11/19 at 10:32PM EDT
Desire has left The Deuce: David Simon's HBO drama on the sex industry has lost all its curiosity about what humans want
"In its third and final season, which began on Monday, The Deuce is racing toward its bleak and inevitable coda,"...
-
Posted Monday 9/09/19 at 7:10PM EDT
The Deuce's time jumps suggest it has a grander endgame in mind
David Simon and George Pelecanos’s drama about Times Square, the sex trade and capitalism "seems to be fast-forwarding through history...
-
Posted Friday 9/14/18 at 11:17PM EDT
How The Deuce accurately re-created New York City's 1970s "brief golden era" for gay men
To ensure accuracy, the HBO series added writer Carl Capotorto, who played Little Paulie on The Sopranos.
-
Posted Monday 4/09/18 at 1:45PM EDT
The Wire's David Simon will next tackle the Spanish Civil War
Simon and his literary team of George Pelecanos and Dennis Lehane are working on A Dry Run, a six-episode miniseries...