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I have to admit, I hadn’t watched Treme until last night. It’s not because I didn’t want to watch it, it’s because I really really did. I’ve never started watched a David Simon show as it unfolds, but rather in a months-long Netflix binge that makes the whole thing more like reading a book than watching a Read More

From the very start, we were warned. “Treme” is not “The Wire,” and anyone tuning in to HBO at 10 p.m. Sunday – or watching the show through some illegal feed – expecting something similar was going to be disappointed. You would have to be patient, meet the characters and learn their motivations and ambitions Read More

I finished the book Homicide by David Simon. I only recently became a David Simon fan, but I’d been talking about The Wire a lot at work and my coworker, who was cleaning out his desk. He used to cover the cops and courts for my paper, and while he was cleaning out his desk Read More

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

Burns, Simon, Pelecanos. Um, how many ways does this essay fall into our bailiwick? So how come we missed it? David Simon, Ed Burns, and George Pelecanos launched a salvo at America’s misbegotten drug policy, penning an essay in Time asking people serving on juries to vote to acquit any suspect charged with a nonviolent 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.

We asked this before: does The Wire‘s central premise — that institutions are soulless, self-perpetuating and swallow up even the best intentions at reform — run contrary to support for Obama, whose running on a platform of systemic change? David Simon (did y’all peep his cameo in the newsroom in the finale?), in an interview Read More

  PostBourgie is hosting a running season-long discussion of the final 10 episodes of HBO’s ‘The Wire.’ Karas Lamb, a screenwriting student from Philadelphia, penned this week’s recap. If you haven’t seen the episode: SPOILERS. I’m just going to say it: not that you couldn’t have guessed three seasons ago, but McNulty is off his Read More

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