Heads Up!!!!....................David Simon's new series starts next Sunday!!!!!

[dixiegrrrrl]

Of all those who revolutionized TV in the last 20 years, David Simon was always the most political and least commercial. From The Wire to Generation Kill and Treme, he's consistently dived into the country's thorniest topics: the Drug War, inner city public schools, the invasion of Iraq, New Orleans post-Katrina.

In his new HBO project, Show Me a Hero, he takes on his least likely subject for nightly entertainment yet: public housing.
A true story set in Yonkers in the late Eighties/early Nineties, the six-episode miniseries stars Oscar Isaac (giving a young-Pacino level performance) as Nick Wasicsko, the youngest mayor in America at the time. He finds himself confronting an enraged constituency after a Federal court orders 200 units of affordable housing — all of which is set to be built in the city's lily-white neighborhoods.
What unfolds is an American tragedy in six acts.

http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/features/show-me-a-hero-david-simon-is-still-mad-as-hell-20150811

Happiness is a David Simon production.....

edited to add:

He says, in the story at the link:

I think that there are two currencies that operate in politics to a far more profound effect than goodwill or sentiment.
Those things are money and fear. That shit is what pays and punishes politicians, money and fear.

[Bluenorthwest]

1. I watched the fist two episodes yesterday, all of DU should be watching this show....

nt

[Paladin]

2. Agreed. It reminds me of the best aspects of "West Wing."

Oscar Isaac is terrific as the young, put-upon mayor. Highly recommended.