16. "Your BF cousin IS Hersl, or a Hersl is on the production side?" In response to In response to 15
Either way that's some wild shit.
I think I said this in that earlier response about whether this show is more Wire or Treme, but as somebody who didn't know this story at all and is avoiding looking it up until after the show is over, I bet this is a particularly tough watch for DMV folks in the same way The Wire could be an odd sense of pride.
Even just reading/hearing Bernthal and Charles in particular talk about making this show, it feels like they felt a heavy need to make these characters feel real considering, well, they were real and this is what became of the streets they grew up on.