October 23, 2010
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10.23/2010
I finished the series, The Wire, yesterday. As HBO series go, it's one of my favorite. This is my second HBO series that I have completed. The first being Six Feet Under. I enjoyed Six Feet Under, because of its dialogs about life, death, sexuality, identity, and responsibility. The Wire, however, is different. It doesn't speak so much about individual people as it does about society and the relationships among different sections of society (the projects, the harbor, the politicians, the school systems, and the news media). What I liked about The Wire is that is shows that the problems of society are not isolated events. They are collaborations on behalf of multiple parties being in cahoots. The irony is that people see the face of drugs being black, yet the people who are trafficking the drugs into the country are not African American. The problem reaches far beyond the streets of the projects, beyond African Americans. But, Blacks are often times the scapegoats because they are the most readily visible actors.
I enjoyed The Wire because, although it is based on Baltimore, Maryland, its dialog is representative about American politics (and race) as a whole. It demonstrates that people, often times, cannot act to promote the most good, that sometimes they are merely puppets for a higher authority figure. Politics and chain of command dictate people's actions.
The Wire definitely deserves to be one of the best shows ever produced.
Right now I'm sitting at a total of four medical school interviews. I had an interview on October 1st, I have three more on November 8th, November 22nd, and November 23rd.
I'm quite pleased at the moment.
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