the wire

Sex sells. That has long held sway as maybe the most salient truth in the entertainment industry, an unchanging foundation on which so much of our world is built. HBO has never been afraid to embrace this ethos with it’s programming, a…

We are living in the Golden Age of Television. Television has equalled, and probably surpassed, cinema as the place where the most innovative, aesthetic, and popular mass media is being created. Our social media feeds, as well as our…

2002 was an interesting year in American television. It was the year that HBO aired the first episode of its new series from Baltimore journalist David Simon and ex-homicide detective Ed Burns. The Wire  would run for 5 seasons with low to…