The Storming Clouds of Plenty

VERY SMALL #51 SPOILERS BELOW
None of us have OnDemand this season (intractable cable problems), but I think we’ll have screeners for each episode. So same as before: A week ahead, but with warning.
Well, there it was. Months of waiting satisfied with one long establishing shot. We find out that time has passed since #50’s finale, [...]

I’m Set Free

Note: These are the most straightforward images I’ve ever used. That’s because I’m in a rush to go buy Christmas presents. Don’t ask.
Finished up with Season Two, and I’ve had an worthwhile itch going on that I think pertains to all Wire arcs. Of course there’s such a thing as integrity in Simon’s universe, [...]

To Each His Vulcans

In the run-up to January, I’ve been watching Season Two again. It had always been my least favorite, mostly because it’s the whitest; while there is the “gotcha” connection to the Barksadale saga, by and large it’s about setting about a parallel form of Baltimore strife. With the union severely corrupt and the next generation [...]

Those Provident Fires

The Wire has a rich, profound, and possibly lazy relationship with the real world. That much we know. I don’t think it’s ever been suggested, on Heaven and Here or elsewhere, that the program bears the genetic stamp of past forms of fiction. Ninety-percent of the articles written on it take the “you think it’s [...]

backing into it

alright, i guess it’s time to start posting again. I had envisioned doing an elaborate “What Wire Character Are You?” Quiz, but judging from how much y’all hated the prequels (which I maintain are outside of the universe of the show and totally insignificant, merely the result of some actors, writers and directors having [...]

The Land Before Land

When we sleep, we make noise. When we don’t write for months, it’s a lot less deliberate.
With that, here’s my attempt to follow in JSJ’s footsteps and get this site to pop again. There have been numerous reasons before now to get going, but the prequels (scroll down, on the off chance you haven’t seen [...]