Watching The Wire

Each day’s screening will have a post to start discussion and track the story. They’ll contain the official HBO plot summary, and may be updated to include some post-screening notes. Please use each thread as a place to engage with what you see, pose questions, offer thoughts, etc. Respect the spoiler policy by not referring explicitly to what will happen in the future.

One thing to think about is how the show manages to introduce so many characters (30 in the first episode alone!), and its tolerance for confusion – did you find yourself uncertain of what was going on? What effect did such confusion have on your? And for those of you watching it for the second (or more) time, what do you notice differently now?

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While The Wire can certainly be enjoyed even if you know what’s coming – after all, why else would we rewatch it? – we want to allow classmates who have not seen the series to experience the plot without spoilers. So please only reference events that have been seen in the episodes that we’ve watched together per the class schedule!