Gimpysoft

I haven’t had time to say much to say about The Wire this season. I gorged myself on the first seven episodes early in the season, then had an agonizingly long wait for episode eight. I watched eight and nine On Demand, and now found out today that the series finale won’t be put up On Demand, presumably to avoid spoilers. Arrrgh! Two weeks to wait?

In the meantime, I’ll be catching up on my The Wire reading. I was reading Wire blog Heaven and Here during season 4, but kind of avoided it this season. At least I can go back through it and catch up on their season 5 posts while I’m waiting for the finale.

I also recently found Marc Singer’s blog, where he’s doing an excellent deconstruction of the season so far. One more way to get my fix and kill the time between now and Sunday, March 9.

Sadly, after March 9 I don’t think there will be any way I can continue to justify my subscription to HBO. I’ll be back for David Simon’s Iraq War mini-series Generation Kill, but there’s not a lot else I feel like I need to keep the subscription for.