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  • McNulty and Bunk as Simpsons characters It's All In The Game, D'oh

    Apr 30, 2008

    Wire and Simpsons fans, this is worth keeping an eye on—Oregon artist Steve Lieber has started a project drawing...

  • omar Michael Kenneth Williams

    Mar 11, 2008

    The man behind The Wire's Omar talks about why he doesn't really mind being confused with his character and what makes R. Kelly tick.

  • simon David Simon

    Mar 10, 2008

    The creator of The Wire offers some thoughts on the end of the series, plus musings about the fates of journalism and Greek myth.

  • Wire "-30-"

    Mar 09, 2008

    The serialized television series we love are seemingly destined to break our hearts. Because of the open-ended nature of U.S....

  • Wire "Late Editions"

    Mar 02, 2008

    It’s sometimes easy to talk about The Wire as a cynical show—cynical about institutional malaise, cynical...

  • Wire "Clarifications"

    Feb 25, 2008

    There’s so much going on in The Wire every week that I determined early on that I couldn’t cover...

  • Wire "Took"

    Feb 17, 2008

    Let’s start with the ending. Stylistically, The Wire has never been particularly flashy or self-conscious,...

  • Wire "The Dickensian Aspect"

    Feb 10, 2008

    Two big cliffhangers from last week: How in the world did Omar survive that three-story fall from the Chris/Snoop/Michael ambush?...

  • Wire "React Quotes"

    Feb 03, 2008

    And the plot thickens…It was only a matter of time before the fantasies of Jimmy McNulty and Scott Templeton would...

  • Wire "Transitions"

    Jan 27, 2008

    “Ain’t easy civilizing this motherfucker,” said a weary Proposition Joe about Marlo last week, when the steely...