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Jun 13, 2013
100
Six hours of raucous laughter, bone-rattling suspense, and god-awful tragedy. ... The Corner is a marvel of craft.
Sep 19, 2013
100
The Corner is a marvel - a powerful testament to the crumbling inner city, the Catch-22 of urban social services, and the strengths and vulnerabilities of the human spirit. [16 Apr 2000, p.K-09]
Sep 19, 2013
100
An astonishing achievement, a miniseries that manages to put human faces on the drug culture in American neighborhoods. [16 Apr 2000, p.F9]
Sep 19, 2013
100
The Corner is strong, solid storytelling, but it's more than that. It's an act of enlightenment, raw and shattering and strangely, inexplicably, beautiful. [15 Apr 2000, p.C01]
Sep 19, 2013
100
While The Corner may sound like just more preachy TV cliches about drug abuse and African-American self-destruction, it is so much more than that. It is about the life and death forces at war in that inner-city staple, The Corner, and it is a jarring introduction to the people behind the statistics and the cliches. I hope it finds an audience, despite its rawness. No one ever said great drama had to be pretty. [14 Apr 2000, p.D1]
Sep 19, 2013
100
Relentlessly intense and depressing, ferociously written and spectacularly acted. [14 Apr 2000, p.135]
Sep 19, 2013
100
An unflinching and deeply affecting portrait of American tragedy. [14 Apr 2000, p.4F]
Sep 19, 2013
100
A striking six-week miniseries delivering one of the rawest, truest, most provocative and involving dramas ever beamed to Americans. And one of the most important, defining a seedy, destructive junkie subculture in vivid, aching detail in the tradition of such theatrical films as "Panic in Needle Park," "Drugstore Cowboy" and "Trainspotting." [14 Apr 2000, p.F1]
Sep 19, 2013
100
It is also stunning, compelling and thoroughly, empathetically human. [14 Apr 2000, p.11E]
