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Creator/DavidSimon's followup to ''Series/TheWire'' which garnered just as much critical love right off the bat.

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Creator/DavidSimon's followup to ''Series/TheWire'' ''Series/TheWire'', running from 2010 to 2013, which garnered just as much critical love right off the bat.
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* [[AuthorAppeal Author]] [[JustForPun Appeal]]: Inverted in the case of [[Series/NoReservations Anthony Bourdain]], who has made appeals to write for the show, and finally got his wish with a story co-credit in Season 2.

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* [[AuthorAppeal Author]] [[JustForPun Appeal]]: AuthorAppeal: Inverted in the case of [[Series/NoReservations Anthony Bourdain]], who has made appeals to write for the show, and finally got his wish with a story co-credit in Season 2.
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* FoodPorn: New Orleans' legendary food culture is in full display here, especially as one of the characters is a SupremeChef running a gourmet restaurant.


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* SupremeChef: Janette and her employees at the restaurant pull off some awesome looking FoodPorn on the regular.

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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The people in charge of the various police departments ''really'' don't want to admit that they've potentially lost and/or are wrongfully incarcerating people thanks to the post-Katrina chaos. Toni even points out that they get more FEMA funds the more prisoners they house,so they're ''incentivized'' to bury her requests in red tape.

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The people in charge of the various police departments ''really'' don't want to admit that they've potentially lost and/or are wrongfully incarcerating people thanks to the post-Katrina chaos. Toni even points out that they get more FEMA funds the more prisoners they house,so they're ''incentivized'' to bury her requests in red tape.
** The insurance people are a DownplayedTrope but aren't much better, denying coverage for Albert's home on the [[LoopholeAbuse grounds]] that he has insurance against ''hurricane'' damage but not ''flood'' damage.
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Cool Loser TRS cleanup, has been renamed to Unconvincingly Unpopular Character and is a YMMV audience reaction.


* CoolLoser: Davis thinks he is this, when he's probably the latter.
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* OverprotectiveDad: Linh's dad, who fiercely guards his daughter. Gruff at first, he's revealed to be a cool and supportive guy.

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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters



* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Series/TheWire''. It keeps the show's general style and format ([[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters large ensemble cast]], interweaving plotlines, etc.) but takes place in UsefulNotes/NewOrleans instead of Baltimore, and widens its scope beyond the world of crime and law enforcement.

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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Series/TheWire''. It keeps the show's general style and format ([[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters large (large ensemble cast]], cast, interweaving plotlines, etc.) but takes place in UsefulNotes/NewOrleans instead of Baltimore, and widens its scope beyond the world of crime and law enforcement.
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* ActorExistenceFailure: Michael Showers, who played Captain Guidry in Season 2, was mysteriously found dead in the Mississippi River.

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* BeleagueredBureaucrat / ObstructiveBureaucrat: Toni and Ladonna encounter many of both types in their search for Ladonna's missing brother.


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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The people in charge of the various police departments ''really'' don't want to admit that they've potentially lost and/or are wrongfully incarcerating people thanks to the post-Katrina chaos. Toni even points out that they get more FEMA funds the more prisoners they house,so they're ''incentivized'' to bury her requests in red tape.
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* BeleagueredBureaucrat / ObstructiveBureaucrat: Toni and Ladonna encounter many of both types in their search for Ladonna's missing brother.

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