The Wire Lovefest continues
Blogosphere has fallen in love with 'The Wire'
For the online arbiters of cool, The Wire has arrived.
Accolades for David Simon's Baltimore-based crime drama, now in its fourth season, are spreading across the Internet like a West-Side drug war.
"In case you haven't heard, The Wire is the best show on television today, maybe the apotheosis of the form," wrote The Huffington Post's Anya Kamenetz last week.
"The Wire ... is surely the best TV show ever broadcast in America," echoed Slate editor Jacob Weisberg.
Prominent blogger Jason Kottke's fervor for the show has reached evangelical levels. He's been tracking every development of the show - on and off the screen - for several weeks now. "In my opinion, The Wire is one of the very best television shows ever," he wrote recently.
See the trend here? The superlatives are flying, but there's also something else interesting going on - people are thinking about the show and its larger cultural, social and political themes: rampant poverty; urban decay; drug addiction and crime; corrupt politics; and the dangers of entrenched bureaucracies.
For the online arbiters of cool, The Wire has arrived.
Accolades for David Simon's Baltimore-based crime drama, now in its fourth season, are spreading across the Internet like a West-Side drug war.
"In case you haven't heard, The Wire is the best show on television today, maybe the apotheosis of the form," wrote The Huffington Post's Anya Kamenetz last week.
"The Wire ... is surely the best TV show ever broadcast in America," echoed Slate editor Jacob Weisberg.
Prominent blogger Jason Kottke's fervor for the show has reached evangelical levels. He's been tracking every development of the show - on and off the screen - for several weeks now. "In my opinion, The Wire is one of the very best television shows ever," he wrote recently.
See the trend here? The superlatives are flying, but there's also something else interesting going on - people are thinking about the show and its larger cultural, social and political themes: rampant poverty; urban decay; drug addiction and crime; corrupt politics; and the dangers of entrenched bureaucracies.
