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
Last night’s other Major Event, for those who could pry themselves away from the presidential debate long enough to realize it, was the return of ABC’s stranded-crash-survivor series, Lost. Now in its fourth season, the show made an exciting reappearance — thankfully providing a brief reprieve from the ongoing new-episode drought and making good on 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
ABC seems intent on disallowing us all to forget what happened on Broadway nearly four years ago–you know, when Diddy was cast as Walter Lee Younger in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun. We understand it had to be done back then. Diddy’s top billing packed the Royale Theatre for every performance and is Read More
We’ll be hosting a running season-long discussion of the final 10 episodes of HBO’s incomparably dope drama ‘The Wire.’ G.D., who works at a major American newspaper, handles this week’s episode. Spoilers, obviously.
We’ll be hosting a running season-long discussion of the final 10 episodes of HBO’s incomparably dope drama The Wire. Steve Logerfo, who recently left his job as a counselor in an inner-city Baltimore school to attend law school, handles the first week’s recap. Oh, yeah. Spoilers. The Wire has methodically worked its way through Read More
“The Wire is dissent. It is perhaps the only storytelling on television that overtly suggests that our political and economic and social constructs are no longer viable, that our leadership has failed us relentlessly, and that no, we are not going to be all right.” —Series creator David Simon In the last few months, I’ve Read More
