Comments on: An ode to The Wire

By: Ralf Michaels

Ralf Michaels — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:18:17 +0000

Law and literature indeed.
Imani Perry of the Center for African American Studies here at Princeton (and formerly a Professor at Rutgers Law) has a law-and-literature-style draft on the third season entitled “6 Boys: Who Learned on the Corner When Headstart Wasn’t Enough” for a special issue of a journal dedicated to the Wire.

By: Bruce Boyden

Bruce Boyden — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:43:39 +0000

I haven’t seen The Wire — it’s on my “To Watch” list — but I’m a huge fan of Homicide, the TV series. I’m curious whether the character “Bunk,” whoever that is, is related to Junior Bunk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4k238Qy3wo (warning — massive spoiler at that link)

By: John Ip

John Ip — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:32:17 +0000

Thanks Howard, although it appears that we may disagree over which season was the greatest. One of my colleagues who teaches evidence also uses the Omar/Levy exchange in class – I should go along once to gauge the class reaction.

By: Howard Wasserman

Howard Wasserman — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:26:57 +0000

I wrote something a few months ago on the show, saying I wish they had come back for a sixth season focused more on the judicial system, because they seemed to have been the one group that could have portrayed the judicial system on TV with even a modicum of accuracy. I have shown the Omar trial scene to my Evidence class; it has great examples of various modes of impeachment.