Sweet Deals: The Wire

This Sunday, the BEST television show on the tube these days is coming to an end.
Started in 2002, chronicling the life of Baltimore Maryland police officers in their effors to take down Avon Barksdale, played so wonderfully by Wood Harris, one of my favorite young actors today. As the head of the Barksdale Organization, along with henchmen Stringer Bell, the so fine Idris Elba, they take control of the Baltimore streets and have the PD stumped.

The next few seasons show the inner city in a light before unseen on tv. The gritty truth of the drug dealers, public schools, working class, and "everyday" folks just living. Just as OZ gave insight into the prison system and Sex and the City turned being female and single on its head...this show has given the public a more realistic view of city life...along with great actors and actresses portraying real life and well acted stories...reading more like documentaries than sitcoms.

So watch this award winning show come to its end on Sunday, and if you are unfamiliar, go get The Wire on DVD. It will surely be one of your greatest purchases this year!