It's not television, it's Home Box Office

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E não é que a mesma malta que me (sim, estou-me bem a marimbar para o resto do mundo, a HBO é o meu maná particular), me, dizia eu, me trouxe isto:

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E isto:

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e ainda isto:

.ainda tem o descaramento de me trazer isto:

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Um gajo fica perdido. E para se orientar vai à New Yorker. Ou, ao contrário do que sucedeu entre Maomé e a montanha, a New Yorker vem até nós. Com esta pequena maravilha:

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The show’s title referred to the wiretap that a unit of the Baltimore police force was using to keep a local drug organization under surveillance. Ultimately, the term suggested more—the way that the show allowed viewers to eavesdrop on various recondite power plays, and the way that poverty, politics, and policing were interconnected in a struggling post-industrial city. In Simon’s view, “The Wire” was never “a cop show. We were always planning to move further and further out, to build a whole city.”

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O resto pode ser lido aqui.