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
YouNotSneaky was nice enough to let us re-run a blog entry of his that he posted last year on way ‘The Wire’ deals with economics. Possible spoilers from the first three seasons. I’m really surprised that no one’s has mentioned the economics of the HBO show “The Wire” (though there have been discussions as to Read More
The folks at The New Republic are at odds over what Obama’s assertion that Omar is his favorite character from The Wire (his favorite show, along with M*A*S*H) really means. Is that edgy or something? Michael Crowley thinks so.
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
Between the Jena 6 and that Columbia University professor, nooses have been all over the news lately. NPR wonders if that’s due to a rise in racist incidents involving nooses, or a rise in their coverage. There’s a pretty well-done profile on The Wire‘s David Simon in The New Yorker (spoiler alert for the folks Read More
