The Wire's fourth series

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

I've finished watching the fourth series of The Wire, after getting the DVD box set for Christmas. I greatly enjoyed the previous three series and was expecting more great drama from this one and I wasn't disappointed. Before I watched an episode I wondered if this fourth series would be ...

Lt. Daniels and the Argonauts

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

If anyone is watching the first couple of series of The Wire and wondering why Lieutenant Daniels seems so stiff whilst he's walking you only have to look to series three to find out. It is in the third series that he gets his shirt off and you see ...

Second series of The Wire

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

I finished re-watching the first series of The Wire and have moved straight on to rewatching the second series. It's an interesting combination of stories, with the main team working on a case on the docks and the Barksdale story continuing almost in the background. The two stories ...

Fun with The Wire

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

I'm currently re-watching the first series of The Wire. I borrowed the DVD set from a friend after finding out it was written by David Simon, who wrote the book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, which I read recently after being reminded of it, and on which ...