The Wire gets so much praise from people who don’t actually like television, and has spawned so many David Simon quotes about why he’s better than everyone and every show should be more like his, that it’s easy to forget that the show really was as good as Simon says, one of the few shows that has taken the “novelistic” approach (really, an expanded version of the mini-series approach) and made it work superbly. This compilation of the “100 best Wire quotes” is a good, quick reminder.
The Wire gets so much praise from people who don’t actually like television, and has spawned so many David Simon quotes about why he’s better than everyone and every show should be more like his, that it’s easy to forget that the show really was as good as Simon says, one of the few shows that has taken the “novelistic” approach (really, an expanded version of the mini-series approach) and made it work superbly. This compilation of the “100 best Wire quotes” is a good, quick reminder.