Waiting For The Moon

Unrepentant

plsj:

“I watch The Wire because, to paraphrase its creator, David Simon, The Wire is about what happens in a post-industrial society, one in which people are no longer needed, not in the factories, not in the service economy, not anywhere. It’s about institutions such as the police and the media, and cultures such as poverty (drugs) and failing affluence (stevedores). It’s about the fact that we live in a world that doesn’t work as well as it did, and though this world is particularly American, the failures it documents are endemic. All that, and we have no clue how to go forward.

I also watch The Wire because, like life, there are lots of characters and the connections between them are fascinating. I like the fact that resolution is hard to come by and the line between the good and the bad guys is hopelessly blurred. I like that race, class and sexuality are a given, not a soapbox – where else will you find a gay shotgun-wielding gangster (good guy), a hit man who reads The Nation and Harper’s (a not exactly bad- guy bad guy) and a drug dealer with an MBA (very bad guy).

The Wire is smart, unrepentant, interesting and it cares, really cares about society, culture, economics and art. All of which cheers me.”

- Laura Kroetsch, “Soapbox”

I’ve started re-watching The Wire and it really is one of the best things I’ve ever seen.

Astute comments, The Wire is honest, disturbing.