![]() ![]() ![]() Authenticity was always job one, and The Wire always felt real, overheard, transcribed. It wasn’t strictly a “cop show” (it wasn’t strictly an anything show), but it started as one, and tackled its later subjects - education, city politics, dock workers, newsrooms - in the procedural style. ![]() It is, in fact, The Great American Television Series, a sprawling, insightful, heartbreaking testament to what the medium is and what it can do, telling stories of greater scope and depth than films, plays, or even novels. So much has been written about David Simon and Ed Burns’ five-season HBO masterpiece that it seems impossible to sum up what makes it great in a mere paragraph.
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