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The Best Series Finales Deny the Characters — and Audience — What They Want
Four seasons of peerless emotional brutality really should have prepared us better.
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Jon Hein: The Shows That Made Me
Jon Hein knows TV.
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A Modest Proposal for Cancelling All Shows After One Season
One of this summer's most buzzed-about TV shows was a sequel.
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Idris Elba 'Was Not Happy' When He Was Written Off The Wire
HBO's The Wire was released 20 years ago this week, and the cast and crew are taking time to remember...
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Posted Monday 4/25/22 at 11:45PM EDT
HBO's We Own This City is its own compelling story in limited series form, differing from The Wire in both intention and execution
"It is impossible to watch We Own This City without thinking of The Wire," says Jen Chaney of the HBO...
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Hein’s TV Picks: David Simon’s Baltimore Return Doesn’t Disappoint
Jon Hein knows TV.
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Posted Monday 1/24/22 at 4:29PM EST
Tom Waits being unable to work his VCR almost led to The Wire having a Cowboy Junkies song as its theme song
The Wire creator David Simon needed Waits' permission to use "Way Down in the Hole" as the show's theme song.
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David Simon's The Wire glorified real-life detectives whose cases are falling apart
HBO's The Wire and NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street, based on Simon's 1991 book Homicide: A Year on the...
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Posted Thursday 11/18/21 at 2:50AM EST
David Simon had to fight for The Wire's final two seasons
Season 4 of The Wire is considered the best, while the final season, Season 5, is widely thought of as...
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Posted Tuesday 10/19/21 at 10:34AM EDT
BBC names The Wire the best show of the 21st century after polling 206 TV experts from 43 countries
The best shows premiering in the 21st century -- which excludes The Sopranos -- includes No.
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Posted Friday 10/08/21 at 2:17PM EDT
Baltimore Ravens plan to make its use Omar's The Wire whistle a regular tribute to Michael K. Williams
The NFL team actually reached out to Williams five years ago for a “Ravens comin'" collaboration inspired by the oft-quoted...
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The Wire alums Felicia Pearson and Ed Burns are teaming on a limited series based on her life
Titled A.
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Posted Monday 9/20/21 at 6:18PM EDT
Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker talks about his jealousy of Succession and helping introduce The Wire to British viewers
Before his massive Black Mirror success, Brooker was a TV critic writing and filming video segments about reality TV, TV...
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Posted Monday 9/13/21 at 11:16AM EDT
David Simon remembers Michael K. Williams: We had trouble casting Omar on The Wire until we remembered the actor with the "amazing scar"
The Wire creator tweeted that his New York Times tribute to Williams, who died a week ago at age 54,...
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Posted Saturday 9/11/21 at 2:39AM EDT
Michael K. Williams was a performer openly daunted by the task at hand: a shock absorber
"No knock on David Simon and Ed Burns, but it was Williams who invented Omar.