The Wire

The Wire Finale

The Finale of ‘The Wire’ Offers Small Moments of Hope in a Cycle of Despair

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The show ended its run with equal parts mythology and grit.

The Wire Pilot

This America, Man: Institutional Failure and The Pilot Episode of ‘The Wire’

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Forging a new era of America television drama, David Simon’s Drug War epic still resonates almost two decades later.