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There’s so much going on in The Wire every week that I determined early on that I couldn’t cover everything in a…
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“Ain’t easy civilizing this motherfucker,” said a weary Proposition Joe about Marlo last week, when the steely young…
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Sopranos creator David Chase and Wire creator David Simon have always been conflated in my mind, not just because…
The great advantage of serialized television is that the characters have a history and that history enriches the…
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