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A Little White Lie Cranked Up The Tension During Idris Elba’s The Wire Audition
When you think of HBO’s classic mid-’00s series “The Wire,” it’s the characters that come to mind first — people like McNulty (Dominic West), D’Angelo, Kima (Sonja Sohn), or Stringer Bell (Idris Elba). All of them have their place in the show’s vast tapestry, but their stories never feel manufactured or inauthentic. Their major failures […]
Continue readingHow Accurate Is Drug Trafficking In TV Shows Like Breaking Bad?
In Hollywood, everything is not what it seems. The camera is only a reflection of the reality filmmakers put in front of it, therefore, specific experiences portrayed beyond the cast and crew’s reach can sometimes be quite flawed. While the addictive thrill of a “Criminal Minds” episode starring enigmatic TV character actors may come off […]
Continue readingHow to Watch Beast: Is the Idris Elba Thriller in Theaters?
Idris Elba is back on theater screens! The multi-talented actor, DJ, and musician is starring in Beast, a tense action thriller. Unlike Cats, where Elba played the dangerous cat McCavity, in Beast it’s Elba who is the victim of a dangerous feline. He plays Dr. Nate Samuels, a grieving widower who takes his children to […]
Continue reading6 Best TV Shows Where a Character Returns Episodes Later
Most television shows “kill off” one of its characters throughout its series run to finish the story arc or to simply “pass the baton” or the focus to another character on the show who would take the story in a new unexplored direction. However, a character’s death can leave an emotional burden for the friends […]
Continue readingJohn Boyega Says Michael K. Williams Was ‘Paid Peanuts’ to Star in ‘Breaking,’ Did It for the ‘Art’
John Boyega still can’t get over just how “incredible” it was to collaborate with the late Michael K. Williams in upcoming drama “Breaking.”The film, directed by Abi Damaris Corbin, who also co-wrote the script with Kwame Kwei-Armah, tells the true story of a Marine Veteran who was denied support from Veterans Affairs and turned to […]
Continue readingThe 14 Best The Wire Episodes, Ranked
“The Wire” is one of the most influential television shows of all time. David Simon’s drama series explored the complexities of the drug war and allowed viewers to empathize with all of the different parties involved in the conflict. Not just a thrilling crime series, the show addressed themes of racism, systematic discrimination, drug abuse, plagiarism, educational […]
Continue readingHow This Stanley Kubrick War Movie Influenced HBO’s The Wire
“The Wire” is the defining 21-century portrait of top-down institutional failure in the United States. Over five seasons, creator David Simon and his brilliant team of writers used the whole of Baltimore, from the corruption of City Hall to the get-over-or-get-dead hustle of housing projects, as a microcosm that demonstrates in excruciating detail how the […]
Continue readingThe Wire’s Creators Weren’t Exactly Honest With Their Pitch To HBO
When watching “The Wire,” it’s easy to wonder just how exactly a show as ambitious as this was ever greenlit in the first place. At a time where episodic television was still the norm, “The Wire” went ahead and made a debut season where each episode followed a million different storylines at once, most of […]
Continue readingThe Wire Couldn’t Be Made In The Post-Game Of Thrones Age, According To Co-Creator Ed Burns
Twenty years ago, HBO’s original drama programming consisted of “Oz,” “The Sopranos,” and “Six Feet Under.” The pay-cable outlet had been blazing a daringly original trail comedy-wise with series like “The Larry Sanders Show” and “Mr. Show with Bob and David,” but this foray into seriousness shook up an industry that expected hour-long dramas to […]
Continue readingThe Wire 20th Anniversary Featurette: ‘What Is It We’re Paying Attention To?’
It’s been 20 years now since the series premiere of “The Wire,” which first aired on HBO on June 2, 2002. Two decades later, series creator and writer David Simon and producer and writer George Pelecanos are taking a look back at the show’s legacy in a new featurette.Set in Baltimore, Maryland, “The Wire” unfolded in a […]
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