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I feel like Wire-lovers are a secret club, even though none of us can shut up about it.

Well, the word is definitely out. My love for The Wire has been well documented. With the fourth season, my love for this show has spun out of control. I have watched each of the first three episodes multiple times, and it drives me insane that I can't seem them all now.

While we wait for new episodes to come available "on demand" on Mondays and then play in HD on Sundays, I am left googling and googling. Did you know HBO links to the iTunes music store for all the songs appearing in the show? And here's a great quote frm David Simon from a Q&A with AOL Members:

And it's nice to be paid well for doing this gig, but if money was the goal I would not be trying to construct a television drama anything like The Wire. I think I've demonstrated, with The Wire and The Corner both, that I am capable of marginalizing myself in a niche within television's mass communications model. Specifically, I've shown the television networks that I can produce stories that receive critical acclaim but do not draw big Hollywood numbers, and therefore, my opportunities to make big Hollywood money are not there. Don't misunderstand: I am well paid. But if money were the purpose here, my bad guys would be Irish or Italian, my cops would hunt them down to great gratification, and the city depicted would be whiter, more affluent and filled with big-titted, long-legged women. The Wire is either not the work of someone thinking about payday, or if I am that someone, I am quite incompetent.

Comments

[jkottke]

Slate is doing a weekly discussion about season 4. There is also supposedly an interview with David Simon in the latest Rolling Stone, but I cannot find it on the Web site because it is confusing.

[larogers]

One thing though dj: there's a huge disappointment, a real PROBLEM w/ episode 3 of season 4, involving the portrayal of social workers. i'm real annoyed / sad. but won't spoil; gonna post again after it airs.

[Bob Comakls]

Actually, larogers, there was no social worker depicted in that episode. None whatsoever. The character you are referrinng to was an academic -- a professor at the University of Maryland school of social work, not an actual social worker.

[larogers]

actually bob, a professor at the school of social work is gonna be a doctor of social work. ask a doctor of social work if he considers himself a social worker.

by the time one is a doctor of social work, one has interviewed hundreds, more than hundreds, of people. and wouldn't quiver when faced with a member of his or her target population. wouldn't flinch at having that person ask him why he is taking notes during an interview.