THE WIRE, A GREAT SHOW--NOT

There is the ultimate artsy fartsy politically correct review of a TV Show on Slate today. The show, HBOs The Wire, has been on for three years now, and while I have watched it, I can't say it's anything near Deadwood, nor is it the Sopranos during years one and two (before it became just another bad soap). This reviewer guy says The Wire is great because there are a ton of black people in leading roles, one of the two lone white guys is a bad guy trying to exploit Blacks, and that the canvas of Black gang bangers, dope dealers, users, and killers are somehow uplifting to Lefties.

This is good? Uh uh, The Wire is just one more instance of telling far too many stories at once, cutting from close up to close up in order to look "real" but end up confusing story time and place, the usual obscenity filled dialogue, a lesbian cop (homo worship is de rigeur for the PC crowd), but most of all the story--stories-- lack continuity. The series started out three years ago with 49 dead girls found in a shipping container, the search to find out what was going on (whore smuggling from East Europe), and then a few something else's, more something elses, until now. Should you give it a shot, you will find it very difficult to understand unless you are a black ghetto resident and almost impossible to follow. This is Lefty "art," and you must like it or you are kicked out of the club.