#THE WIRE OMAR SERIES#
A second series has already been commissioned. This kind of marketplace makes it difficult to decipher which shows genuinely have the ‘x-factor’ in 2018, agrees Sandra Oh, formerly of Grey’s Anatomy, but now starring in Killing Eve, which premiered – and received rave reviews – at Cannesseries.
#THE WIRE OMAR TV#
The ‘innocence’ of must-see TV is lost in an era where every big new show on the block is hailed as a ground-breaking masterpiece even before it’s aired.” Compared to those shows, series like Breaking Bad and Mad Men look like overhyped rehashes. However, Rozovas adds, the series benefited from airing during the so-called ‘golden age’ of TV at the turn of the new millennium, “before TV became aware of itself and of its staying power. The Wire broke the mould in another respect too: unlike other mainstream TV hits of the era – The Sopranos, Sex and the City, ER – The Wire’s cast featured a number of black actors in its ensemble cast, and gave career breaks to Williams, along with co-stars Michael B Jordan and Idris Elba. I think that’s why people love it so much.” I have met people in law enforcement, drug dealers and gangsters and they all agree it was so brutally honest and right on point because David and Ed wrote it from experience, not from fiction.
It was all about grey lines and I know viewers respected that honesty.
He didn’t make it about good guys and bad guys, they were just people doing the best they could. “David took an honest look at that, and then he did something else. It represented what was happening in our community. “It dived so honestly into what was wrong in our society, from the police department to our lawmakers to our school system, and the media. “It was the first show I saw that was created as what I call ‘edutainment’,” says Williams. What gives The Wire longevity, he adds, is that the show’s writers, David Simon and Ed Burns, had worked in Baltimore’s police department, and in the case of Burns, as a school teacher too – so the writing was grounded in reality. I think it’s actually a little sad that it’s still so relevant in 2018,” he says. “I think it has just stayed with people because it’s still relevant now, because of the climate of what’s going on in the United States.