Amazingly there are only two blogs listed with Technorati tags about the Wire (This isn’t one of them) After a fair bit of searching i found the Wire bits on http://mattzollerseitz.blogspot.com/2006/09/different-voices-diversity-in-wires.html and there is some interesting stuff there.

Such as the idea that the Wire isn’t very popular because most of its characters are black (with some % estimates by various people, suchas Vance Cureton, from something called the Reading Post) or that its characters are all violent and hostile. Uh? The Wire characters cross every level of society and exhibit every shade of moral failing and virtue.

Anyway, it’s a very good blog post, with a quotation from sociology professor that I want to copy here, but, in fear of committing a double plagiarism, I’ve linked to the source.

It tells you that producer Ed Burns, “served both as a homicide detective in the real Baltimore police department and as a teacher in the city’s public schools” No surprise there but informative. It supports the feeling that its realiism is well founded in someone’s experience.

And it provides the fantastic fact that Stringer Bell is played by a British actor. Wow.