This came out early on in 2005, when people were not sure if the Wire would be coming back for the fourth season. Today, with the success of the fourth season (the best show ever is finally catching on), HBO is bringing it back for a fifth and last season. But it's still a good read in case you missed it. And like a lot of great the Wire coverage, it's from the Baltimore City Paper:
1) “Bring me a Shrek 2 slushie and some Krispy Kreme.” —Squeak
The characters are the most instantly and constantly gratifying aspect of The Wire, and over all three seasons its writers cared enough about everybody who utters a line to invest each with a personality that sounds more reported than written. Squeak is a minor character in the third season, a woman who junky/criminal informant Bubbles works through to sell bugged cell phones to lieutenants in the Avon Barksdale drug crew. And yet in her few scenes, The Wire doesn’t turn her into a mere plot-point pawn; you get to know her. She’s loud, controlling, and more than a little domineering. And when the cops do pick her up with her boyfriend and she barks at him, “You got to be the dumbest motherfucker I done ever gone out with,” and he fires back, “I can’t wait to go to jail,” you’ve digested an intimate portrait of a relationship in less than five minutes of screen time. Such detailed attention is lavished on every character, no matter how seemingly trivial, because in The Wire you never know what the next episode will unfold. (Bret McCabe)
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