‘The Wire’: Lester Freamon’s in the Mood for LoveWe guess this must be the triumph before the fall, because as this week’s episode opens, Freamon sees his months of hard work and investigative misconduct pay off.
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10 Beloved Characters, 10 Ignoble DeathsVulture takes a look at ten other characters whose ignoble deaths made us shake our heads and think, He deserved better.
‘The Wire’: McNulty Finds His HamsterdamThe sight of our beloved McNutty taking a swig from a flask, crossing himself, and strangling a corpse was a little hard to bear.
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See the Short That Got Filmmaker Seith Mann a Job on ‘The Wire’Seith Mann’s intense, touching, and very well-made 2003 NYU short five deep breaths helped get both Mann a stint directing on the show and its lead, Jamie Hector, the chance to play young drug lord Marlo Stanfield.
This weekend, we’re watching season four of ‘The Wire.’The bullshit politicians, nearsighted cops, and cannibalistic drug dealers are all here, of course, but it’s the doomed schoolkids—Randy, Namond, Dukie, and Michael—who best give life to the capital-T tragedy of Baltimore’s failing of institutions.
‘The Wire’ Season-Five Trailer: Will This Be the Most Palatable Season Yet?This isn’t a trailer so much as a preview packed with new footage and snippets of “hey, our show is smart and great!” comments from the cast and creator David Simon, but it ought to be enough to get the small but passionate Wire cult pumped for the premiere of the Greatest Show in the History of Television’s final season in January.
10 Fictional Characters Who Must DieLast month, fans argued about whether Tony Soprano was killed at the end of The Sopranos. This month, fans are eagerly flipping to the end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to see whether Harry snuffs it. In honor of those two cliffhangers, Vulture presents its list of ten fictional characters we definitely want to see die.
