One Of The Best TV Scenes Ever

I am currently reading ‘Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets’ by David Simon, which was the book that was the basis for the TV show ‘Homicide: Life On The Streets’. I started reading it back in the early 90s but I was moving around a lot and lost it (along with Tom Wolfe’s ‘A Man in Full‘). I recently bought it again and decided to get through it before I lose it again.

I am currently at the part where they are trying to find out if the Fish Man killed Latonya Wallace, which was changed to whether The Araber killed Adena Watson. On TV, this was a great storyline.  In real life, it is heartbreaking.

My favorite episode of H:LOTS is ‘Three Men and Adena’. It was an episode long interrogation with Bayliss and Pembleton trying to get a confession from The Araber. The three actors should have all gotten Emmys, Oscars, Tonys and whatever other awards there were.

This scene is ten minutes long, but it doesn’t feel like it. It is still haunting after all these years.

I have already decided that when I am done with Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets, I am reading David Simon’s The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood which he made into a miniseries for HBO called ‘The Corner‘, which was another great piece of television.

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