Wired Over The Wire!

Was looking through the recent box set for the fourth season of that brilliant TV series The Wire and it just makes me crazy. The last season was that heartbreaking one about Baltimore's inner city schools and focused on several kids. That storyline was mixed with the fall of the Barksdale drug empire and a new force Marlo Stanfield (Jamie Hector) rising on the streets. It was absolutely astonishing.

But then this series created by David Simon has never been anything but great from the first season on. Watching the show lately has been both thrilling and upsetting because I'm fearing it coming to an end. And the whole newspaper subplot with a fabulous Clark Johnson as a terrific reporter is so beautifully integrated you'd think the newspaper has always been a part of the series. And Dominic West as the hard-drinking impulsive Detective Jimmy McNulty has been really off the wall recently, fudging crime scenes of dead homeless people to make it look like a serial killer is on the loose. And then there was the incident with Proposition Joe this week -- I can't even go there. You really need to buy the box sets because there are so many interweaving threads that it's fun to revisit to watch them all weave together seamlessly. What a cast. What a great fucking show.