![]() Yet when Wallace translates the problem in terms of keeping the count on the stash, the kid gets it quickly. It's a fairly simple, culturally-relevant word problem about the number of passengers on a city bus, and yet the kid has no idea in how to solve it, or much interest in trying. Look at the moment where one of the abandoned kids in Wallace and Poot's care asks Wallace for help with his math homework. Men and women who might have otherwise gone on to great things - or, at least, to something resembling the middle-class lifestyle familiar to the majority of the show's audience - are either deprived of opportunity, or else seduced away from those opportunities, by life on the corner. One of the dominant themes of "The Wire" is the tremendous waste that the drug culture has created in inner-city America. Spoilers for episode eight, "Lessons," coming up just as soon as I teach my daughter how to front-and-follow. This is the former scroll up for a version where you can talk about everything that's coming in the future. Not sure yet if I'll double up again next week or a little down the road, as I also intend to take a vacation at some point in August, but we'll get this done close to on time or your money back.Īs usual, we're going to do this in two versions: one for people who are new to the series, one for folks who have seen every episode from first to last. So we'll get one review today, and another one in the regularly-scheduled Friday morning timeslot. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Okay, in an attempt to get these season one review of "The Wire" back on schedule and hopefully finished before Labor Day, I'm going to try to double up here and there. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. ![]() If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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