My favorite TV show, "The Wire" has it's 4th season debut September 10th. Looks like I won't like the take of this season. The producer is going to present these Drug sellers with an "Officer Krupke" approach.
"Officer Krupke, you're really a square;
This boy don't need a judge, he needs an analyst's care!
It's just his neurosis that oughta be curbed.
He's psychologic'ly disturbed! "
Birth of the gangster: Simon intends to explore how his drug lords were formed.
Part 1 - A New Chapter Begins
"Who are the Avons and Stringers and Omars, where did they come from? Are they so vastly different from us, or are they exactly us? This season is really a preamble to everything you've seen on The Wire before," Simon says.
"I think it's important to explore, because as much as we've tried to humanize all the characters, there is a presumption on the part of some viewers that gangsters are not made, they're born. That these people that they're watching who buy or sell drugs, or run criminal organizations, these people came from some other universe. And that's an incredible act of vanity on the part of some viewers."
The new season fits into a plan that was decided upon during the filming of season one, back in 2001. "The first season was about the inherent cost of being an individual in any modern institution," Simon says.
"Whoever you were in Baltimore, you were getting f**ked. The second season was to describe the death of work. The third season was to show what happens to reform and reformers and to examine the whole nature of why policy never changes."
"And this season is to take argument with those who feel that if you're born without privilege, but make the right set of choices, that you will be spared. To do away with that bit of national mythology." |
