A while ago, there was a controversy in people-who-write-about-TV circles when David Simon, creator of The Wire, complained in a New York Times interview about certain post-Wire coverage that he thought trivialized the show’s messages. (In particular, Grantland’s online bracket to crown the best Wire character ever.) You didn’t read about it here, because while I will shamelessly use this blog to write about things that I know fascinate only me and not most of you, a controversy over how best to critique a TV show that went off the air four years ago is perhaps over the line.

David Simon, however, is welcome to do that, and now he has a blog to do it on. (With the great name The Audacity of Despair.)