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But to really know what The Wire is you have to know what the wire, lowercase, is. In the first season of the series, in 2002, the wire was a wiretap, which a team of Baltimore cops used in a season-long probe of a drug gang. At first blush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Connecting the Dots | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

But the gritty cop show revealed itself to be something much bigger. The first season humanized the drug soldiers without condoning them--following them home, speaking their language and showing how they were used as cannon fodder. And it showed how cops who want to do painstaking police work are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Connecting the Dots | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

At the Sun, as with many other media organizations--and like The Wire's budget-strapped cops--they're paying attention mainly to the bottom line. Out-of-town owners are demanding higher profits, bureaus are closing, layoffs are draining the institutional memory, and the staff barely has the resources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Connecting the Dots | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

The Wire is also TV's best--and nearly its only--drama about race and class. Because Baltimore is largely a city of black people, The Wire is a show largely about black people, all kinds. Black people are the criminals, and they are the cops and the politicians. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Connecting the Dots | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

The basic premise of the game is that designated killers bump off cops with a wink, while remaining undetected. When the lights are dimmed, killers work together using a sign language of nods and winks to select a victim. The "police" then try to guess their identity, which is confirmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death in the Flutter of an Eyelid | 12/19/2007 | See Source »

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