Wednesday, November 18, 2009

"This Is America, Man"

Even if you haven't seen even one of the 60 episodes of the HBO TV series The Wire, this is still a downright entertaining compilation of the 100 Best Quotes from the five seasons of the Baltimore police, local government bureacracy and drug-dealing drama :



It's interesting to see so many claim The Wire is the first TV Novel, meaning it is not just a series of episodes, but a flowing, weaving narrative, closer to a novel in structure than normal TV shows. Have they never heard of the TV novel Roots, from 1977?

The Godfather movies were also re-edited for TV in 1977, and the story was screened in chronological order. It was called The Godfather Saga : A Novel For TV.

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