Miscellaneous Links: Reviews, Interviews, Videos, and Whatever

• The New Yorker on The Wire - Focuses on series creator David Simon.
• On MetaCritic (Season 5) - 9.5 from the users and 89 from the critics.
• What Do Real Thugs Think of The Wire? Part One - (NYT, 2008)
• What Do Real Thugs Think of The Wire? Part Two - (NYT, 2008)
• The Wire on Fire: Analyzing the best show on television - (Slate, 2006)
• TV Squad Blog
• The Wire: Final season grounded in genius - (USA Today)
• David Simon talks about his career in journalism and the final chapter of The Wire
• The best TV show of all time - "The Sopranos" vs."The Wire": Two Salon critics duke it out over which series is the greatest ever.
• Interview with David Simon in 2007
• High on the wire - Guardian interview - Charlie Brooker meets the main players as season 5 gears up.
• Charlie Brooker talks about The Wire [VID] - Guardian writer and non piss taker Brooker tell us why The Wire is the greatest TV show ever.
• The Wire and the Serial Procedural: An Essay in Progress - (2007)