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Wednesday, May 29, 2002
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'The Wire'
So you think "The Shield's" Vic Mackey is the baddest cop on TV? Well, just get a load of these bandits with a badge. They’re a ragtag band of street narcs that make big, bad Vic and his crooked "Shield" cronies look like choirboys.
Welcome to a behind-the-scenes sneak preview of "The Wire," a not fit for network crime series that HBO expects to make a bigger killing than "Six Feet Under" and more noise than "The Sopranos."
"The Wire" is an explosive TV cocktail of sex, drugs, and police corruption that creator David Simon says blows the lid off the real life war on drugs. He says, "I think as you watch this show, you realize fighting the drug war has raised a generation of cops who know how to be thugs."
"The Wire" chronicles the lives and crimes of an undercover drug squad working the mean streets of Baltimore, where the good guys are often drug dealers like Larry Gilliard Jr.'s character. "He has a heart. He's not a killer."
Which is more than series star Dominic West can say about his role as detective James McNulty. "He's an alcoholic and he's not the greatest diplomat in the world."
But Sonja Sohn's character doesn't have time for any guys good or bad. "Not only is she a detective, but she's a lesbian detective. And yeah, there's one sex scene."
In a show as gritty as this one, that's unlikely to even trip "The Wire."
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