Say this much about the fifth and final season of HBO's celebrated Baltimore crime saga "The Wire": it's ending with a bang, not a whimper. After four seasons spent picking apart one civic pillar ...

Television producer David Simon has a message for Republican lawmakers who are pushing sending National Guard Troops to Baltimore — they should keep “The Wire” out of their mouths. “Anyone citing a ...

Last year, trying to avoid the misery of our current moment (the wars, the slop, the uninspiring leadership) and with nothing but sequels and reboots by way of a cultural response, I began rewatching ...

David Simon is right to call out Republican lawmakers for citing “The Wire” as justification for sending National Guard troops to Baltimore (“David Simon: Don’t use ‘The Wire’ to justify sending ...

Stringer Bell's death in The Wire's third season was apparently supposed to look very different. An angry Idris Elba had to ...

HBO’s The Wire is the greatest TV show ever made, and its finest individual scenes prove it. Creator David Simon brought a ...

The Observer just published an interview with David Simon, the creator of The Wire and other HBO series including Treme, The Deuce, Show Me a Hero, We Own This City, and more. The main focus is on how ...