Wendell Pierce as Bunk Being called the best show on television is a hell of a burden to carry. Season 4 of HBO’s drama The Wire won wide acclaim from critics, if not Emmys or Golden Globes noms, and show mastermind David Simon has set up this fifth and final season as a coda for [...]
How weird was it to watch the scene on HBO’s The Wire in which the fictional editor of the Baltimore Sun announces newsroom cuts, starting with the foreign bureaus but encompassing jobs in the main newsroom as well? Sunday, James O’Shea, Los Angeles Times editor, was forced out for resisting newsroom cuts that would have [...]
I was catching up with Slate.com’s great commentary on this season of The Wire. In post 12 Jeffrey Goldberg snuck in a link to a Flintstone’s/ Raging Bull parody that I hadn’t seen before. Total milk shooting out of the nose moment — check it out:
By now you probably know who all the winners of last nights Emmys were. I was unable to watch the show live last night as my cable was out though it’s a show that is usually second in pointless silliness only to MTV’s VMAs. Every year the batch of nominations is announced and duly trashed [...]
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