I think you'll find that every scene in The Wire serves a purpose, even if it's just to set up a parallel between the many worlds the show juggles.

What's the wire a metaphor for?

I think it's a metaphor for the thin line between right and wrong. Not that I think for a minute that the writers believe in absolutes, but instead see most everyone crowded around a moral (or even an amoral) gray area where the thin line of judgment is hardly ever clear. To the characters, at least, although it's often unclear even to the viewers. You think Bodie and Poot had a choice about whether or not to take out Wallace?

Okay, I love that Omar loves myths. And that all he brought for "courtroom wear" was the requisite tie. And everything he did while on the stand. I am officially going to be sad when he dies, although, as the lawyer pointed out, it will have been a long time coming. I think I read his death is sort of lame, though. Hope it's better than Keller's, at least.

What the fucking fuck, Zig? Burning a hundred dollar bill? Can someone please kill him? Too useless to live, that kid.

What was D'Angelo flushing down the toilet? Was that the drugs he was kicking?

Patterns! Patterns in the cargo! I heart detective work.

Aw, prison book club. Also, I haven't mentioned it before, but I love that dude who's peddling comics. Hee.

And then: THEY FUCKING KILLED D?? I HATE THIS FUCKING SHOW. I know I predicted a tragic end for him from the get-go, but I thought he was safe since he survived the season. And he was such a good kid, resolute in his new path. WHO THE FUCK ORDERED THIS? I hope it wasn't Avon, because I have a certain liking for him and cannot believe he'd order the death of his own nephew. Was it...

OH. MOTHERFUCK. THAT CONVERSATION IN THE CAR. SONOFABITCH. YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO QUOTE SO MUCH MORE FUCKING MACROECONOMICS TO MAKE UP FOR THIS, STRINGER BELL.

Hey Cor, did you see that Omar (the actor anyway) is in the movie version of The Road?

Your worlds collide.

I think I read his death is sort of lame, though.

I thought it was absolutely as it should be, ftr.

Me, too, Lisa.

David, I saw that, but I'm reserving judgment on everything Road-related at the moment. Who could he be playing? The options are limited. Plus, his only other major role was in Trapped In The Closet, right?

Cor, they talk about it in this NYTimes piece.

The thief was Michael Kenneth Williams (Omar on “The Wire”), one of a string of brand-name actors who turn up briefly in the film. (Robert Duvall is an old, dying man, and Guy Pearce is another father wandering with his family.) Mr. Williams brilliantly improvised while taking off his rags and plastic bags, pleading for his life in a way that causes the boy to take his side. When the first take was over, even before a wardrobe assistant could get there, Mr. Mortensen rushed over to help Mr. Williams pick up his clothes and get dressed again.

“He’s a good actor,” Kodi said.

Mr. Mortensen said, “Yeah, he’s good, isn’t he?”

Wow, that sounds good. I liked The Proposition, too.

But this:

The script does enlarge and develop in flashback the role of the man’s wife (played by Charlize Theron), who disappears quite early from the novel, choosing suicide rather than what she imagines will be starvation or worse.

Yikes!

Kevin Spacey interviews the real Ron Klain. (Who Spacey plays in Recount .)

the man’s wife (played by Charlize Theron), who disappears quite early from the novel, choosing suicide

Yep, that sounds like a Charlize Theron role all right.