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 which didn’t resolve by the end of the episode.
At a time where most hour-long drama episodes would have an A story, a B story, maybe a C story and occasionally a D story, “The Wire” had enough storylines going on its first episode to cover half the alphabet. And…The post The Wire’s Creators Weren’t Exactly Honest With Their Pitch To HBO appeared first on /Film.
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