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David Simon chatted with the New York Times about late-to-the-game The Wire fans and he seems a little upset. Also he’s upset at TV recappers, so we’re basically all under the umbrella. He’s upset with all of us.
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I am exempt from his scorn. I have never watched The Wire and I only recap movies. In your face, David Simon.
I watched The Wire since the first episode
You weren’t part of making the pilot? Fairweather fan!
I blame Werttrew.
I didn’t read the whole thing, just the 4th paragraph.
I did send in a link to this story to tips@videogum.com, so the fact that you’re reading this now IS maybe kinda my fault?
Hi Werttrew!
You know who I feel “amused contempt” for? This fuckin’ guy.
David Simon is old school punk. Just let him be angry.
I love the wire, I rented all of the DVDs on Netflix watch later and I bought my dad the box set* but I only watched it a few years ago and only because everyone was constantly talking about it. The truth is that if I had seen it when it was on air I probably wouldn’t care for it for the reason that, like Simon says, it is a whole. You can probably watch a season by itself and still get it but that’s still time than the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy together. I view the Wire as a novel that was initially run on a magazine, you can read it when it’s serialized (I guess) periodically but it’s a lot more fun to read it all at once.
* Although he calls the show “McNulty” and he occasionally sings “when you go to The Wire, you better watch for O-mar” sung to the tune of Way Down in the Hole.
your dad is a genius that is a funny rif on the song
He’s made at you too, Kelly, don’t make any exceptions.
You MADE
Oopsie doopsie, I made a pudding woopsie.
“My favorite character on The Wire is Omar… I mean the City of Baltimore.” – Hipster Barack Obama
I’m tyring to think of something more intelligent to say in response to that article but really, I just keep coming back to “what a douche”. Good news for David Simon: I hwas bored by GK and Treme so I won’t be making any wearing comments online about those shows at least. OMAR RULZ.
Treme is awful
I actually liked Generation Kill quite a lot. The book was very good too.
Generation Kill is pretty great, it just feels incomplete. Treme is good but definitely requires patience, and the first season hit a lot harder than the second. That’s my two cents at least.
really? I only saw season one of the Treme. Is season two worse?
I don’t know if I’d say worse, but I think it has fewer emotional wallops.
Davey Simon can think anything he wants, the Wire provides him that privilege. Not sure why he is going on and on about it in this interview, about not being in agreement with the uncontrollable internet, and / or why he should give a care, but frankly thats his prerogative if he so chooses, just as it is all our prerogatives to unplug the internet machine and go sit by a pond and watch some ducks. At the center of our galaxy is a mysterious dark object that might be a black hole but no one knows for sure.
or even “wearying” ones.
“It was conceived of as a whole, and we did it as a whole.”
Rrrrrrrreally, was it? I don’t think it was, but I can’t think of an example bc I only saw it while it AIRED back, hoo, a long time ago. But I’m pretty sure if I called bullshit no-one would fault me.
Anyway, the whole McNulty arc in season five was very well conceived, well done everyone involved in that.
I really don’t give a shit what David Simon thinks of me. I praise him up every opportunity I get, and I continue to do so because I like “The Wire” so much and I want other people to enjoy it.
I work in a similar field as he used to (grammer!), so I really enjoy when there are fairly accurate depictions of crime and punishment and social disparity and all it brings: child protection, family law, uncertainty, pain, and stress.