bleak and uncompromising and hard hitting . the quality of the acting and scripting and direction pull together to create a contemporary urban drama revolve around the life of drug addict and dealer live in the slum of downtown baltimore and a figurative cancer eat away at the american heartland . base on the true life story of francine boyd ( play here by the mesmerizing khandi alexander ) from the book by edward burn and david simon subject matter expert on the baltimore drug scene and writer for tv the wire . a with real life and there aren not any easy answer or happy ending . with the corner hbo raise the bar on the quality of television drama forever .