Abstract
Poverty in the United States, and especially the notion of under class, are well represented in David Simon's TV series. First, The Wire focuses on the city of Baltimore, and studies a drug dealing organization, and the Baltimore police department trying to put an end to it. This drug dealing organization gives us an image of the African American underclass.
Then, Treme describes the reconstruction of the city of New Orleans, three months after the Hurricane Katrina of 2005. It focuses on the reconstruction of the inhabitants' life, house, and culture. Those two TV series look different: one occurs in Baltimore and the other in New Orleans, one is about a drug dealing organization and the other is about the inhabitants of New Orleans trying to rebuild their lives. But they have something in common: they both describe poverty and the underclass in the US; contrarily to all the other American TV series which spread around the world the image of a wealthy America, forgetting its 46 billions of poor people.
