{"id":31208,"date":"2022-05-31T23:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T23:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-wire-creators-david-simon-and-ed-burns-on-the-show-20-years-later\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T23:00:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T23:00:28","slug":"the-wire-creators-david-simon-and-ed-burns-on-the-show-20-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-wire-creators-david-simon-and-ed-burns-on-the-show-20-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Wire’ Creators, David Simon and Ed Burns, on the Show 20 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"
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David Simon concedes that it takes a special kind of [expletive] to say, “I told you so.”<\/p>\n

“But I can’t help it, OK?” he said recently. \u201cNobody enjoys the guy who says, ‘I told you so,’ but it was organic. Ed and I and then the other writers, as they came on board, we had all been watching some of the same things happen in Baltimore. “<\/p>\n

Two decades ago, Simon, a former cops reporter at The Baltimore Sun, <\/em>joined Ed Burns, a retired Baltimore homicide detective and public-school teacher, to create HBO’s “The Wire.” Fictitious but sourced from the Baltimore that Simon and Burns inhabited, \u201cThe Wire,\u201d which premiered on June 2, 2002, introduced a legion of unforgettable characters like the gun-toting, code-abiding Omar Little (played by the late Michael K. Williams) and the gangster with higher aspirations, Stringer Bell (Idris Elba).<\/p>\n

They were indelible pieces of a crime show with a higher purpose: to provide a damning indictment of the war on drugs and a broader dissection of institutional collapse, expanding in scope over five seasons to explore the decline of working-class opportunity and the public education system, among other American civic pillars.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n