The Wire's First Four Hours or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Write Rambling Essays

Let’s dive into this very straightforward and simplistic cops and robbers show.

I’ve never seen The Wire.

As someone who considers herself something of an expert on contemporary American TV, this feels embarrassing to admit. It was never a huge ratings success, but even by the time it finished airing it had become known as the TV show. It topped just about every critic’s “best TV of the 2000s” list almost by default. “When televisio…