Watching it again from episode one, I think the dirty secret is how much "The Wire" owes to "Clockers" -- right down to repeating things Price fabricated, such as the cries of "Five-O" whenever the cops appear. That, or the contribution of Ed Burns, the ex-cop whose experiences "The Wire" dramatized.
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This was our Dickens moment -- and it's over.
The still astonishing quality of this makes the failure of Treme more bewildering.
Is it that Treme isn't about crime?
Watching it again from episode one, I think the dirty secret is how much "The Wire" owes to "Clockers" -- right down to repeating things Price fabricated, such as the cries of "Five-O" whenever the cops appear. That, or the contribution of Ed Burns, the ex-cop whose experiences "The Wire" dramatized.
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