Gem of Amara

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The Wire episodes 2x01-2x04

“Ebb Tide” to “Hard Cases”

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Grace Robertson
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There’s no question The Wire was intended to be a politically relevant TV series. The thing was obviously always built to speak to the issues pulling apart society. But when the second season aired in 2003, people probably didn’t sigh and recoil at hearing these three words over and over again for the past few years:

“white working class”.

Yeah, I’m afrai…

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