David Simon on the future of The Wire

Slate has an excellent interview with the creator of The Wire. My wife and I watched the next-to-last episode of the current season last night, and just sat on the couch afterwards, worrying about the four kids around whom this season’s narrative is constructed, as though they actually existed. The show is that powerful. And if you’ve never seen it before, you can probably (depending on your cable system) call up the first episode of this season and watch it straight through, as though you were reading a novel. We did that with the first three seasons, renting them one at a time, and it was incredibly engrossing.