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Shorter Wire

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People say to me, “James, all these smarty-pants TV critics are saying The Wire is the greatest drama on TV. But I’m afraid if I start watching it now, I’ll have no idea what’s going on. Should I just jump in?” And I say to them, “Don’t cheat yourself, Hypothetical Person! Get the DVDs of the first four seasons and catch up with season 5 later! There’s a writer’s strike on! What else are you going to watch?”

And you could do that. Or you could knock the whole thing out in four-and-a-half minutes, with this HBO recap, in the spirit of Seven-Minute Sopranos. It would have been nice, ahem, before season 5 started, but you gotta take what you can get:

McNulty is hot! But Daniels is hotter! But McNulty is drunker!