Great mysteries of TV #47: why does nobody watch The Wire? Despite gushes of critical affection, the best-acted, most complex cops’n’robbers show in television history gets lower viewing figures than the worst cack-brained US sitcoms. It makes you want to weep. Written like a 12-or 13-hour movie rather than a string of 60-minute episodes, The Wire cooks up a detailed and compelling look at the frontline troops on both sides of Boston’s drug wars. It’s not a dip-in, dip-out watch, though – you have to commit for the long haul. Wire-obsessives have been watching detective McNulty and his crew of cops failing to build a case against drug lord Stringer Bell for two seasons and it’s only now, in year three, they finally think they’ve nabbed him.
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