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The Wire, season one.
When I finally started watching The Wire in June or so, I didn’t intend to write about it here because I feel like no show of the last ten years has been written about, and written about so well, as...
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The Wire, season two.
The Wire: The Complete Series is on sale again on amazon for almost 60% off, at $85.49 – perfect timing for me, as many of you have asked for my thoughts on season two, which I just finished watching...
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The Wire, season three.
Season three of The Wire marks a pretty significant departure from the compact story arcs of the first two seasons, a shift with both positive and negative effects. On the positive side, this was the...
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The Wire, season four.
Daniels: What’s this kid to you? Prez: I don’t know. He’s one of my students. There appears to be a very strong consensus among critics and serious fans of The Wire that season four is its pinnacle,...
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The Wire, season five.
If you’re new to these recaps, you should start with my notes on previous seasons – on season one; season two; season three; and the longest post, on season four. I’ve held off a bit on writing about...
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Lush Life.
I discovered Richard Price’s 2009 novel Lush Life on Lev Grossman’s list of the ten best novels of the 2000s, where it was one of only two novels I hadn’t read (the other is Neil Gaiman’s American...
View ArticleSaturday links, 10/13/12.
Fall League coverage has tied me up all week, but I’m stuck around the house today waiting for a mechanic to finish $1500 in repairs to my car’s A/C, radiator, and catalytic converter assembly (the...
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Clockers.
All of my GenCon wrap-up pieces for Paste are now up, including the top ten new games I saw, the summary of every other interesting title, and an essay on the experience of attending for the first...
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The Night Of.
I started HBO’s limited series The Night Of when it premiered in July, liked the first three episodes, got busy and just never got back around to it, because it’s the kind of series that demands your...
View ArticleStick to baseball, 6/3/17.
My second first-round projection (mock draft) went up on Tuesday, and I held a Klawchat, in which some guy got mad at me for answering a question about my first-round projections by including that...
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