My shameless bit of boasting about the season 5 Wire screeners HBO just sent out seems to have struck a nerve. Maybe we need to have a mini Wire Discussion Group to get us limbered up before the series returns on January 6. In the meantime, this HBO preview that gives the slightest taste of the new season, which is going to focus on the role of the press (or its abdication of the same) in the rest of the institutional failures the show has chronicled.
How far can you get on a lie?
(Also–link via our good friend Tim Goodman at the revived Bastard Machine–see these Wire prequels at amazon.com, promoting the season 4 DVD set.)