![]() ![]() ![]() They were indelible pieces of a crime show with a higher purpose: to provide a damning indictment of the war on drugs and a broader dissection of institutional collapse, expanding in scope over five seasons to explore the decline of working-class opportunity and the public education system, among other American civic pillars.īurns and Simon went on to collaborate on other high-minded projects for HBO, most recently “We Own This City,” a mini-series created by Simon and their fellow “Wire” alumnus George Pelecanos, based on the true story of the Baltimore Police Department’s corrupt Gun Trace Task Force. Williams) and the gangster with higher aspirations, Stringer Bell (Idris Elba). Two decades ago, Simon, a former cops reporter at The Baltimore Sun, joined Ed Burns, a retired Baltimore homicide detective and public-school teacher, to create HBO’s “The Wire.” Fictitious but sourced from the Baltimore that Simon and Burns inhabited, “The Wire,” which premiered on June 2, 2002, introduced a legion of unforgettable characters like the gun-toting, code-abiding Omar Little (played by the late Michael K. Ed and I and then the other writers, as they came on board, we had all been watching some of the same things happen in Baltimore.” “Nobody enjoys the guy who says, ‘I told you so,’ but it was organic. “But I can’t help it, OK?” he said recently. David Simon concedes that it takes a special kind of to say, “I told you so.” ![]()
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