The Wire, episodes 3x05-08

“Straight and True” to “Moral Midgetry”

What does The Wire have to say about power?

I’ve written a lot about the show’s fairly obvious critiques of institutions. If The Wire has a central thesis, it’s that the structures of early 21st century America fail the people who live there. I didn’t necessarily expect this before watching the show, but it has an almost David Graeber sense of anarchism.…