For me it's like a very long, very good movie :) David Simon called it "a treatise on the end of the American empire, and who we are as a people, what we've co

For me it's like a very long, very good movie :) David Simon called it "a treatise on the end of the American empire, and who we are as a people, what we've come to, why we can no longer solve or even seriously address our own problems", and generally said and wrote a lot of insightful things since, very eloquently. I loved The Wire, but discovering that head and character behind it impressed me on top of even that. Just take this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL6Jv2Jpnpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL6Jv2Jpnpg If I had to put it in a nutshell I'd say The Wire "comes from a place of" paying attention, not from distraction or deriving entertainment from crime and other problems, and that (combined with genius and the right people getting together and having good chemistry, and a lot of things not going wrong that can easily kill a TV show) made it so good. Good art can be luck, but art this great is always the tip of an iceberg.