The Wire

[Dharus]

Being based on real events and being realistic are to different things. Its obvious that the Wire was hollywooded up but it doesnt change some of the minor details that are based on facts. Simon actually had one of the officers on his writting staff but that doesn't mean he was creating a documentry on Baltimore PD. The Wire isn't a documentry but a drama show that 'should' make you think about issues that plague the US. Public schools failing inner city kids. The war on drugs being a joke. Labor Unions aren't good anymore nor do we build stuff in this country. Politics, government, and the numbers game they play to win elections or get more funding. The decline of real journalism. While some of it is exaggerated, it is done so to make people stop and think.

Watching a CSI show about some serial rapist who uses a baseball bat to his victims in gory detail on regular cable, doesn't make anyone think but turns them into a Nancy Grace seeing killers around every corner. It doesn't compare at all.