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Remember, if you surfing outside this site, there will be mention of things that happen on the show that you may not have seen yet – spoilers galore!
HBO’s Official Wire Site – guides, interviews, forums, and a store to buy Wire stuff for your favorite professor.
The Wire on Wikipedia – comprehensive info about the show, episodes, characters, and personnel. Feel free to contribute your knowledge.
Alan Sepinwall on The Wire – television critic and blogger, Sepinwall has detailed comments on most episodes, interviews, links. If you go here, you’ll get lost in a wealth of Wirephenalia.
The Wire Wiki – a user-generate resource for all-things Wire. Login and add your expertise!
Heaven and Here, A Thousand Corners, and Wire F*cking Fan Club are all fan blogs with a ton of links, analyses, and discussions.
http://www.siliconvalleyfrogs.com/thewire/
Here are some redacted scripts of “The Wire” online…
A Harvard-trained sociologist, Peter Moskos, wanted to do research on policework in East Baltimore. The commissioner would not let him conduct his research, but he did let Moskos join the force. Moskos then wrote a scathing book about his experience, called “Cop in the Hood,” in which he calls for abandonment of the futile war on drugs.
Here is the Amazon.com link: http://www.amazon.com/Cop-Hood-Policing-Baltimores-District/dp/0691140081/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235619135&sr=8-1
And the blog: http://www.copinthehood.com
“Never mind ‘The Wire.’ Here is the real thing.”
-The Wall Street Journal
David Simon interview with “The Believer” magazine:
http://www.believermag.com/issues/200708/?read=interview_simon
Really cool NY Times “Freakonomics” blog by Sudhir Venkatesh, who somebody mentioned in an earlier post:
What Do Real Thugs Think of The Wire?
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/what-do-real-thugs-think-of-the-wire/
Sorry, spoiler alert on that last link, it’s about Season Five.