“The Wire” creator is calling out a pair of Russian streaming services for removing references to one of the show’s gay characters. David Simon took to X on Friday to condemn the act of taking out ...

Every few years, I rewatch “The Wire,” the five-season show set in Baltimore that is often considered to be one of the greatest television shows ever made. The wire in the title refers to wiretaps set ...

Spoilers for The Wire ahead. There are a lot of fantastic characters in The Wire, but the best of them served to drive home the harsh truths the series shed a light on. There were few shows like The ...

In his 2014 book Difficult Men, journalist Brett Martin identifies bad-boy antiheroes as the defining feature of our current “Golden Age” of television. Tony Soprano, Don Draper and The Wire‘s Omar ...

Michael Kenneth Williams’ portrayal of Omar Little, the iconoclastic shotgun-toting stickup artist in the HBO drama The Wire, earned praise from critics, peers and gangsters alike. With David Simon’s ...

Sit back and get ready for Michael K. Williams, a.k.a. Omar Little from The Wire and Chalky White from Boardwalk Empire, to become the foul-mouthed rapper millennials love to love: Ol' Dirty Bastard.

Detroit, Michigan rapper Eminem spoils one of the most tragic deaths in The Wire with a lyric in a popular song. Marshall Mathers, better known by his rap name, "Eminem", is one of the most acclaimed ...

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OPINION: The death of Baltimore’s scariest anti-hero in the fifth and final season was so anticlimactic that I’m still irked by it 16 years later. Every few years, I rewatch “The Wire,” the ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Every few years, I rewatch “The Wire,” the five-season show set in ...