Catherine Keener as Mary Dorman in “Show Me A Hero.” (Photo credit: Paul Schiraldi/courtesy of HBO) This post discusses the plot of HBO’s “Show Me A Hero.” In her review of HBO’s just- ...

Before she joined Vox in 2014, she was the first TV editor of the A.V. Club. Early in Show Me a Hero, HBO’s towering new miniseries from several alumni of The Wire that debuted August 16 and ...

When you tout a TV miniseries with the names David Simon and Paul Haggis alongside such keywords as "public housing," "racial tension," "the late '80s," "Yonkers" and throw in what sounds to be ...

Show Me a Hero, a six-hour miniseries presented by HBO over three weeks, checks off all those boxes. It's based on Lisa Belkin's nonfiction book of the same name, which examined events and ...

David Simon’s latest series Show Me A Hero presents an enticing opportunity for any director worth his salt. The former Baltimore Sentinel reporter behind series like The Wire has managed to ...

It’s hard to explain what “Show Me a Hero” is about. The HBO miniseries debuting this Sunday is technically about the controversy over a federal affordable housing policy being enacted in ...

Should you ever begin to believe that people are, at the bottom of it, good or decent, allow HBO’s new miniseries “Show Me a Hero” to serve as a corrective. Based on the 1999 account of what ...

Nick’s story and the fight over the housing order will be replayed later this month with the airing of a new and highly anticipated HBO series “Show Me A Hero,” based on the 1998 book by ...