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I got to ask David Simon a question! The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism hosted a talk with David Simon, creator of The Wire, which all journalists agree is the best show ever. Despite this past season in the newsroom. I braved rush hour traffic in Connecticut to go. You should know now that Read More

What are we to do after our favorite show’s less-than-satisfying series finale? Keep talking about it. Oh, The Wire: your love is a 187. But worry not, y’all. We got that pandemic. Or, uh…some links and minutiae, anyway.

Our recap of the very last episode of HBO’s critically acclaimed drama, The Wire. If The Wire‘s finale was all over the place and doing a little bit too much and a little too neat, it was pretty consistent with the entire final season, where points and details that used to be made subtly were Read More

This week’s PostBourgie recap of HBO’s incomparably dope drama ‘The Wire’ is being handled by Gene Demby, who works for a newspaper in New York City. SPOILERS! Of our little troika here at PB, two of us are unabashed, hardcore Wire zealots. But Stacia, a TV junkie and Baltimore native, remains a holdout. Recently, she Read More

We’re hosting running, season-long discussion of the final 10 episodes of HBO’s incomparably dope drama, The Wire. Spoilers! I know what y’all are thinking: how could they do this? How could Beadie Russell not win an Oscar for her work in Gone Baby Gone? Oh. Did some other major event happen in the world of Read More

In previous seasons, McNulty and Freamon were the rebellious troublemakers who broke the rules to achieve a solution we generally all agreed was the right one, namely, catching bad guys. The whole show started with McNulty turning up the heat on his own department by getting a judge on his side and screwing over his Read More

  We’ll be hosting a running season-long discussion of the final 10 episodes of HBO’s incomparably dope drama, The Wire.This week’s recap is by David McDowell, a musician from Philly. Spoilers! Wow. Five episodes in, and almost on cue, the heat has been turned up exponentially at practically every angle. Half truths and outright lies Read More

We’ll be hosting a running season-long discussion of the final 10 episodes of HBO’s incomparably dope drama, The Wire. Spoilers. It’s time Jamie Hector, the actor who playes Marlo, got some long-overdue props — the final shot of last night’s episode was terrifying.

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