David Simon – The Wire = the Big Easy?
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NOTE: This entry originally was posted Oct. 15 on our temporary site.
Well, not exactly, but The Hollywood Reporter today said David Simon, the man who brought a gritty Baltimore to the small screen with The Wire, Homicide: Life on the Street and The Corner, wants to produce a series for HBO “about musicians reconstituting their lives in New Orleans.”
Simon told The New Yorker:
This show will be a way of making a visual argument that cities matter. ‘The Wire’ has never done that. I certainly never said or wanted to say that Baltimore is not worth saving, or that it can’t be saved. But I think some people watching the show think, Why don’t they just move away?
The Wire’s fifth and final season begins airing on HBO in January and is arguably the finest drama to ever grace American airwaves. As each season before it, Season 5 will focus on one specific element of the failing American city. This time, it focuses on layoffs at The Sun, where Simone worked once upon a time, “and how newspapers fail to capture certain complex truths.”
Ouch.
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