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The serialized television series we love are seemingly destined to break our hearts. Because of the open-ended…
Reviews - The Wire
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It’s sometimes easy to talk about The Wire as a cynical show—cynical about institutional malaise, cynical about the…
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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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Two big cliffhangers from last week: How in the world did Omar survive that three-story fall from the…
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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…
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The great advantage of serialized television is that the characters have a history and that history enriches the…
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