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The Sopranos is wonderful entertainment and I can't fault anything about it. Nothing. But The Wire cuts deeper, as if it were a pathologist's report describing a particularly aggressive cancer, which in this case happens to be the capitalist system.
A close friend of mine, a now-retired AD who escaped from the street life of the South Bronx and got his start as a gofer in the blaxploitation films of the 70's, agrees completely. His take: "There's not an ounce of fat on that m**********r. It's the best thing that's ever been on tv and you can tell anyone I said so!"
I haven't read this entire thread and may have missed something pertinent, but David Simon did say in an interview that the only character in the show not to have been drawn from his and Burns's years on the street is Omar, who might have been the hero of a Sergio Leone
western.
