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Too often these days, I find myself shaking my head at some new show and muttering, 'If you are not David Simon - or at least someone who worked for years with David Simon - then you really should not be attempting this right now.'" But at least We Own This City or The Deuce were produced by people who were there when the original recipe was being crafted, while so many recent dramas feel as if they were made by someone who tasted the original’s ingredients and then had to guess at the proper quantities and use of each.
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Even the shows Simon and collaborators like Burns and George Pelecanos have made in the 14 years since The Wire series finale - including the just-completed We Own This City, a sort of spiritual sequel to The Wire (or, perhaps, a rebuttal) - haven’t quite gotten all their elements in as perfect harmony as The Wire achieved throughout its run.
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Yet The Wire in death turned out to be far more powerful and influential than it ever had been in life - the TV equivalent of the old line about how the Velvet Underground didn’t sell many records, but everybody who bought one was inspired to start their own band." Sepinwall adds: "But The Wire has proven far more challenging to reverse-engineer than it would seem, given how many other series try incorporating one or more of its various narrative and stylistic signatures. It’s HBO.' Ratings were modest and the Emmys barely noticed it (two nominations and zero wins over five seasons). As a result, The Wire was never a breakout hit in the halcyon days of 'It’s not TV.
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But that pursuit of Barksdale - and, in later seasons, his calculating former lieutenant Stringer Bell (Idris Elba) and then the enigmatic Marlo Stanfield (Jamie Hector) - was really just the narrative carrot Simon and Burns used to pull viewers through a series of complex arguments about the moral failings of the War on Drugs, the reasons for the crumbling state of cities like Baltimore, and larger flaws in the foundation of America as a whole. The Wire, says Alan Sepinwall, "was at first glance a cops-versus-crooks saga in which McNulty joined a Baltimore Police Department task force to bring down the organization of local kingpin Avon Barksdale (Wood Harris). Simon's The Wire, which he developed with former Baltimore homicide detective Ed Burns, kicked off its five-season run on June 2, 2002.