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"Show Me a Hero" Miniseries has just posted its premiere in the small screen at HBO this summer. Oscar Isaac, who will be seen in "Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens" which will hit theaters this 2015, is portraying the lead role Nick Wasicsko.

The plot centers on Wasicsko who is a political figure in the late 80s based on the nonfiction book by Lisa Belkin.

The TV show will follow the story of the youngest big-city mayor of the country who suddenly finds himself involved in a racial controversy after being given a federal court order to build a public housing project in a predominantly white part of his town, Yonkers, New York.

His attempts to resolve the issue don't only paralyze the governmental offices he works at, but would eventually destroy his political future as well.

The cast, as has been accounted in Deadline, includes Natalie Paul, who will portray Doreen Henderson, a young woman from Yonkers who grew up in the suburbs and is drawn to come back to her hometown. LaTanya Richardson-Jackson will play a home health aide who has struggled to raise a family in the worst projects of Yonkers.

A consultant by the name of Robert Mayhawk (Clarke Peters) is hired to help educate the tenants on their new neighborhood. An aggressive urban planner in charge of public housing named Oscar Newman (Daniel Stern), will not make the job easy for Mayhawk.

David Simon and William F. Zorzi is writing the script for "Show Me a Hero." With Simon's 16 years of writing scripts for TV shows arose a great deal of impassion for his past works including this project.

"I've gone 16 years," he says. "I've gone as long as you can go in television without having an audience."

The former Baltimore Sun journalist blatantly expressed his negativity in regard to the politics-focused show while at the very set filming for it. "I don't believe anyone's going to watch this," he says in an interview.

"You are not going to get zombie-like numbers for a story about 200 units of low-income housing being built on the east side of the Saw Mill Expressway and the racial strife that ensues."

However, no one in the set including Isaac or any of the staff seemed to have been discouraged about his pessimistic statements as, afterall, Simon is widely known for being malcontented with almost all of his TV shows such as his most famous works "The Wire" and "The Corner."

"Show Me a Hero," which is being directed by Paul Haggis, consists of a six-hour screen time debuting in HBO at 9 PM on August 16, with the subsequent five installments airing on August 23, August 30, September 13, September 20 and September 27.