David Simon's 'Show Me a Hero' - Six-part HBO Miniseries starring Oscar Issacs

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I have only the final episode of season five of "The Wire" left to watch. I would have watched it last night, but it clocks in at 93 minutes and I was a little too tired and didn't want to miss a beat. So, it will have to wait. Maybe tonight, maybe next weekend, but at least I'm finally catching up to everyone else that has watched creator David Simon's excellent show in time to introduce to you his next project, "Show Me a Hero", a six-part miniseries premiering on HBO Sunday, August 16. The first trailer is below.

Simon wrote the series with William F. Zorzi (story editor on "The Wire" and starred as Bill Zorzi in the fifth season), based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Lisa Belkin, and Paul Haggis (Crash) directs. Set in Yonkers, NY in the 1960s, the series stars Oscar Isaac as mayor Wasicsko, faced with a federal court order that says he must build a small number of low-income housing units in the white neighborhoods of his town. His attempt to do so tears the entire city apart, paralyzes the municipal government and, ultimately, destroys the mayor and his political future.

In addition to Isaac, the show also stars Catherine Keener, Alfred Molina, Winona Ryder, LaTanya Richardson-Jackson, Bob Balaban and Jim Belushi.

Check out the first trailer below.

HBO Miniseries: Show Me a Hero – Trailer (HBO) - YouTube