WIRE: Season 5
One of the best things about the election being over is that I can finally get to The Wire: Season 5 dvd that’s been sitting next to my tv aching to be watched for over a month now (it’s the kind of show that needs ones full and undivided attention). I’m just getting into the fifth – and final – season, but I feel like I’ve gotten to know the characters intimately through the past four. And while this season acts as the final chapter to a series that reads like a book about the difficult, and less than glamorous (yet brutally honest) sides of Baltimore, part of me is dying to know how the characters would react to today’s world. How interesting would it be to see David Simon (the writer/producer/genius behind the show) write a hypothetical article about how he thinks his characters would react to the current political results and economic climate? Any thoughts, Wire fans?
Pigtown-Design
November 7, 2008 at 11:45 pm //
I had planned to meet up with an editor at the Guardian UK when I was there last week to have a discussion about The Wire and Baltimore. I even designed a RIP Omar shirt for him. But something came up on the news side and we just couldn’t re-schedule it.
Prêt à Voyager
November 8, 2008 at 1:15 am //
SO cool, Meg! Sorry it didn’t work out – still cool :)
Anne