its crazy to think the Wire was created by a white man

[Blaze500]

its creator, head writer, showrunner David Simon a journalist

in fact the show was mainly written by Simon and Ed Burns, a baltimore retired detective

how the hell did they understand black culture and urban culture so well

 

[Listen]

its creator, head writer, showrunner David Simon a journalist

in fact the show was mainly written by Simon and Ed Burns, a baltimore retired detective

how the hell did they understand black culture and urban culture so well

He’s born and raised from Baltimore.

 

[Luke Cage]

He basically was mcnulty in real life and also hired the real people alot of the characters were based on to be in his show.

 

[FlyRy]

He's a G like Ernie Johnson

 

[WaveGang]

So who was dude at the start of The Corner.. Didn't he direct or wrote the wire?

 

[AnonymityX1000]

Much respect to them, they created the best show ever.
Separately tho, isn't weird and a major omission until like Lovecraft HBO has never greenlit a drama created by Black people? Even Lovecraft which I plan to watch just haven't gotten around to it has a horror element that is a real turnoff personally. Generally speaking I really don't like the genre.

 

[Roid Jones]

It's almost like research was carried out

 

[Tryna Makit]

He had 1st hand Experience being a cop in bmore.....probably was violating nikkas in his day

 

[Lord_nikon]

I’m sure they hired real street brehs

 

[Scottie Drippin]

Much respect to them, they created the best show ever.
Separately tho, isn't weird and a major omission until like Lovecraft HBO has never greenlit a drama created by Black people? Even Lovecraft which I plan to watch just haven't gotten around to it has a horror element that is a real turnoff personally. Generally speaking I really don't like the genre.

Maybe you should watch it first

 

[kdslittlebro]

I forgot I just put the whole show on my external yesterday I been overdue for a rewatch

 

[AnonymityX1000]

Maybe you should watch it first

Yeah, I said I planned to, but I don't have to watch it to know I don't like the horror genre generally.

 

[Monoblock]

I mean Ed Burns was a cop and built relationships throughout the years, one of them being David Simon who was a reporter. Live enough life and you'll realize this aint that far-fetched. As intriguing as the street/drug life was the policing aspect was just as amazing. One of the greatest and most underrated scenes of the show. Bunny had so many great scenes but this one is my favorite and always gets overlooked and is more relevant especially in this day and times.

 

[pete clemenza]

I'm sure they hired some real cats to help out with dialog and such. Shows do this all the time. Plus some of the characters in the show were authentic street dudes so that helped as well.

 

[getmoney310cpt]

Same with gta San Andreas lowkey