Tag archive for ‘the wire’
TV Beat: The Remaking of the Cop Show
After The Wire perfected a new urban social realism, and CSI (and its offshoots) took Law and Order’s procedural drama to absurd technical heights, the cop show had to get a new angle. The answer: Police the realm of the spirit and cast a non-American English-speaking actor as a brainy detective with a life-changing problem [...]
Wire’s end
The final season begins tonight. It’s the last chapter of HBO’s “visual novel” of institutional dysfunction, and this time it’s all about media dysfunction, about the “press,” that is, the so-called watchdog of democracy, which most would agree has mostly gone off dozing or gnawing at table scraps, for the past few decades, found its [...]
A dog’s life
The true-crime deus-ex-television memoir about America that no politician will bother to read.
Snoop weekend
Felicia (Felecia?) Pearson, the woman behind the wildest most-intriguing character on TV, hitgirl Snoop on The Wire, came out this week with a memoir called Grace after Midnight. We haven’t had the honor of peeping it yet (G-C publishing, send us a copy already!) but the stories in that book are sure to be the [...]
automaton for the people
Another of the million daily reminders that we humans have to take back control of the government is the fact that that other failure of a war, the one on drugs, continues without an end in sight, a war hinged on a strategy that simply arrests black folk randomly in greater numbers every day—a plan [...]
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