The wire aesthetic

The Oscar-nominated actor on fulfilling his childhood dream, wishing people would see their potential, his sense of style, never taking time off and his secret skill.

I was in my early 20s when The Wire made its historic and (in the beginning) critically ignored run on HBO. All told, I watched the entire series front to back at least five times (but it was…

He played a crack dealer in the HBO show The Wire. And it seems Idris Elba may have drawn on personal experience for the role.

In 2020, I had a telephone conversation with writer/editor Ronda Racha Penrice about the groundbreaking HBO series The Wire. As we shared our thoughts and theories on the show that many fans and cr…

Pretty much one of the worst people to ever walk the streets of Baltimore is this guy, and that's saying a great deal. He's a rising drug kingpin who has no code — moral, street, or otherwise — that he follows. He cares about NO ONE but himself. And he will literally kill or have someone killed who he thinks is getting in his way. Also, don't play when it comes to his name, yo.

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