Season Five of the Wire

I cannot wait for Season Five of the Wire to start (nor for Season 4 to be available on Netflix so I can watch it again and wonder how closely it hews to Nyarlathotep’s new life as a teacher in B’more.).

Anyway, Kottke is back from hiatus, and notes David Simon explaining:

Summer news regarding The Wire (including season five info) (kottke.org):
My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader. I was always told to write for the average reader in my newspaper life. The average reader, as they meant it, was some suburban white subscriber with two-point-whatever kids and three-point-whatever cars and a dog and a cat and lawn furniture. He knows nothing and he needs everything explained to him right away, so that exposition becomes this incredible, story-killing burden. Fuck him. Fuck him to hell.

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