In New Orleans, and in urban areas all over the country, there’s a creepy conflation of the Wireverse and reality. There is surely some local version of Avon Barksdale or Marlo running the Iberville project, or a Bodie holding down the tower on Simon Bolivar Ave. Ray Nagin is just as craven and disconnected [...]
One or two things about Norman
1. I completely forgot that Norman had previously worked at The Sun. The HBO character description: A former Baltimore Sun night editor, much beloved by his reporters.
My guess is that this has to work into the Season 5 newspaper plotline…
2. Speaking of math…below, a much younger Reg E. Cathey, from Square One Television. [...]
The cause of gods and demons
One last post about Season Four…
Since I re-watched all of it in the space of a few days recently, I’ve been musing further about it in relation to the upcoming season. Something I didn’t really fully appreciate during the original airings is how the rigid laws of mathematics serve as a motif, [...]
Oprah blames the kids
Oprah obviously didn’t watch Season Four of The Wire.
In an interview in Newsweek’s January 8 issue (out January 1), Winfrey discusses building her $40 million Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls school in South Africa for impoverished teenagers, and more:
Oprah also knows that some people will complain that charity should
begin at home, even though [...]
So, where are we?
[WARNING: This is not spoiler material, as it's already been made public, but if you don't want to know anything ahead of time, don't continue.]
I’m curious to know what everyone here is thinking about on the eve of Season 5. As we all know, the vast scope of the series and size of the [...]
