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Originally Posted by rcubed
Ohh, forgot about the wire. Great series. I liked how the perspective shifted each season. Last season was a little hokey though.
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The last season was abbreviated due to contract negotiations with HBO, so they tried to pack a lot into fewer episodes and it suffered a little. Like many great shows and movies, The Wire was critically beloved but not very successful commercially during its first run, so it was a struggle to get it made each season. There's a book someone wrote about the making of The Wire that I read a few years ago, and from that it sounded like HBO was incredibly patient with the show despite the fact that it never performed well in the ratings.