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I've intended to create this blog for some time. The Wire fascinates me more than any show I've ever seen.

A professor guided me to the greatest show on television a couple years ago. I hadn't seen nor, I believe, heard of it until that point. I only began watching the show when I returned home from school and was blessed by HBO On Demand.

The first season was On Demand. Then the second. You catch my drift. In 10 days I'd watched roughly 25 one-hour, commercial-less episodes.

The Wire sends an eerie feeling through your body the way Curb Your Enthusiasm does when Larry David sparks another indefensible argument or when Bear Grylls eats something entirely foreign to normal humans in Man vs. Wild.

But there are several definite differences that makes The Wire all the more chilling.
The stories and chracters are mostly based on real people who perpetuate Baltimore's innumerable problems.

Simon doesn't make his audiences happy, either. He doesn't care if you love Stringer Bell's more respectable, professional outlook on drugs. He knocks him off in Season 3. Simon's dealers and young "hoppers," a Baltimore term for young dealers, die in the show just like they would in the street.

Simon also leaves no issue untouched. He attacks the Charm City's port, politics, business, education system and most recently, the media. The drugs and police problems backdrop all these problems in each season.


My hope is that all of you will just watch it once. If you do, you'll watch it again. Once you get in the habit, we'll make this the forum to discuss it.