David Simon Shit

Hennessy's been a long admirer of writer David Simon, the man responsible for Homicide and The Wire - a show that I've been pimping excessively of late after having just discovered its brilliance.

My dumb ass thought The Wire was exclusive to inner city decay. Wrong. Dead wrong. The series expands to Baltimore's shipping ports in season two, to City Hall in three, public education in four, and the media for its final season. As Simon puts it in an email to writer Nick Hornby,

"The show would instead be about untethered capitalism run amok, about how power and money actually route themselves in a postmodern American city, and, ultimately, about why we as an urban people are no longer able to solve our problems or heal our wounds."

I'm about half way through season two...which in honesty, took awhile to find its rhythm. But after episode five, you begin to see how each piece fits. And I fully expect these slow goings to evolve into something massive. Much like building a case. It takes time and "...all the pieces matter."

So, Hennessy's been wrong more often times than not. But when he's on, the motherfucker's on. I was slow to embrace The Wire because of that and a little too much allegiance to The Sopranos. But whereas David Chase commented on Americana within a mob framework, Simon's reach is far more encompassing. I can't wait to see where it leads.