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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
G.D. on February 26th, 2008
A few times over the course of its run, The Wire has briefly shone its light on “A-rabs”, street peddlers who sell fruits and vegetables on carts pulled by horses and a fixture in Baltimore life.
Bubbles, during one of his many short-lived forays into sobriety and legality, is one of those peddlers. “You [...]
G.D. on February 25th, 2008
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 [...]
quadmoniker on February 21st, 2008
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 [...]
G.D. on February 14th, 2008
A question for Wire fans who are also Obama supporters: If you buy the the central theme of The Wire — that institutions will ruthlessly self-perpetuate and stymie even the best of intentions — then how does one ride for Barack Obama’s promises of changing the culture of Washington?
quadmoniker on February 11th, 2008
Spiderman Omar, has come out of hiding to declare war on Marlo.
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