The Wire: Season 4 begins
The best show on television is back with a vengeance. These season’s focus is on education and introduces four 8th graders. 3 episodes have aired so far with a visual punch and storytelling verve. You have to feel for the kids and what they are face and know it will only get worse as the series unfolds up over the next 10 episodes.
Perhaps the greatest aspect of the show is the sense of truth in it. The stories are fictional but reflect the truth and emotion of Baltimore specifically and the US in general. The creators David Simon, ex-reporter and writer, and Ed Burns, ex-detective and ex-middle school teacher. The men care passionately about their city and the inhabitants, especially the faces and stereotyped caricatures we usually see on TV and the movies. Simeon and Burns see and portray the interconnectedness of everything that is Baltimore. This is true from the locations to the dialog to the some of the actors on the show who bring their real life Baltimore experiences to the show as well as characters bases on real people or composites of real people.
The first season centered on the drug trade in public housing, the second on the Longshoreman and the displacement of the less educated middle and lower middle classes and the third season was on the local politics. Now it is educational system. So far this season we have only seen in one junior high school but I am sure there much more awaiting us both within that school and schools around it both public and I will venture to say private school’s (like McNulty’s kids as seen in season 3).
My wife and I became addicted to the Wire watching season 1 on a DVD set check out from the library. We finished season 1 and I said I have ten minutes to get to the video store before it closes and rent another couple of DVDs. Off I went and was back with the first two DVDs of season. When we finished season two subscribed to HBO to watch season three.
Link to The Wire Home page -
http://www.hbo.com/thewire/?ntrack_para1=leftnav_category0_show1
Salon article with spoilers - http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/09/20/the_wire/index1.html
Perhaps the greatest aspect of the show is the sense of truth in it. The stories are fictional but reflect the truth and emotion of Baltimore specifically and the US in general. The creators David Simon, ex-reporter and writer, and Ed Burns, ex-detective and ex-middle school teacher. The men care passionately about their city and the inhabitants, especially the faces and stereotyped caricatures we usually see on TV and the movies. Simeon and Burns see and portray the interconnectedness of everything that is Baltimore. This is true from the locations to the dialog to the some of the actors on the show who bring their real life Baltimore experiences to the show as well as characters bases on real people or composites of real people.
The first season centered on the drug trade in public housing, the second on the Longshoreman and the displacement of the less educated middle and lower middle classes and the third season was on the local politics. Now it is educational system. So far this season we have only seen in one junior high school but I am sure there much more awaiting us both within that school and schools around it both public and I will venture to say private school’s (like McNulty’s kids as seen in season 3).
My wife and I became addicted to the Wire watching season 1 on a DVD set check out from the library. We finished season 1 and I said I have ten minutes to get to the video store before it closes and rent another couple of DVDs. Off I went and was back with the first two DVDs of season. When we finished season two subscribed to HBO to watch season three.
Link to The Wire Home page -
http://www.hbo.com/thewire/?ntrack_para1=leftnav_category0_show1
Salon article with spoilers - http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/09/20/the_wire/index1.html
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