That famous one-word crime scene from The Wire

5 November 2009 Rob Buckley US TV 6 Comments

Just in case you never watched The Wire, first can I ask what’s wrong with you and tell you that you really need to get to Amazon to order the DVD box sets of all five seasons right now.

But second, have this little taster. It’s a famous scene from The Wire in which the po-lice do proper po-lice work using only one word. It’ll only give you a hint as to why The Wire is so good, but it’s fun, it’s clever, and it’ll give you at least some idea of why the show is so loved.

BTW, not safe for work.

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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