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The Wire - Swotting Up

The Wire has attained a modest but faithful and loyal audience and even been acclaimed in critic reviews as the greatest piece of television made, certainly in recent memory, yet it hasn't necessarily won any big awards,.

The HBO drama portrays life in an American city, addressing the social and political problems one may encounter in a typical urban environment.

If you are one of the eager fans of the show, you'll surely have a great insight into how life is portrayed in the city of Balitmore, Maryland, where the show is set. But you may be surprised by some of these interesting facts about the series:

• President Barack Obama recently included The Wire in a short, but very varied list the TV shows he likes to watch. Others that made it to the list, bizarrely included SpongeBob Square Pants and Hannah Montana, but he cited The Wire as his favourite TV show, and named Omar, a gay drug dealer in the show, as his favourite character.
• You may have seen Michael K. Williams, the actor who plays the character Omar, in Madonna or George Michael music videos in the past. He's appeared in quite a few.
• The scar on Omar's face, which contributes well to his image as a hard fellow, is real. He acquired it during a drunken brawl on his 25^th birthday.
• The Wire's storylines, which have grossed critical acclaim for their sense of realism, have been influenced by the previous occupations of writers David Simon (also creator), who was previously a police reporter for The Baltimore Sun and Ed Burns, who worked the streets of the city himself as a homicide detective.
• Also contributing to the highly notable level of realism is the fact that many of the cast members are former police officers and criminals and it's even reported that some of the criminals in the show have previously been arrested in real life by their onscreen counterparts.
• While some cast members came straight from the backgrounds of the characters they portrayed, Larry Gilliard, Jr. who played the role of criminal, D'Angelo Barksdale, trained as a classical musician at the prestigious Julliard School.
• Robert F Colesberry, who produced the show and also played Detective Ray Cole, sadly passed away following cardiac surgery. His character in the series also ironically passed away due to a heart illness.
• The Wire, in the UK, is now available to be downloaded from HBO UK all episodes from the first five seasons are now accessible to be viewed on demand.

In 2008, The Wire popped up as number 8 in a feature by Empire magazine, which celebrated the 50 greatest all time TV's shows, gaining it even more loyalty from its fan base.

Crate and Barrel Furniture or The Wire Character?: McSweeney's seeks to find the metaphysical... (curbed)

McSweeney's seeks to find the metaphysical connection between the names of
Crate and Barrel furniture items and the names of characters from the HBO
series The Wire. Think about it: Barksdale? Streeter, Carver, Stringer? Hint:
out of 14 names, there's...

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Reuel Barksdale: The Brown Bag Series