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‘The Wire’ at 20: ‘This Show Will Live Forever’
“We were fast becoming a culture that didn’t even recognize its own problems, much less solve any of them. So it felt like, ‘Let’s make a show about this,’” says The Wire creator David Simon in conversation with Ed Burns and the New York Times’ Jonathan Abrams on the show’s 20th anniversary.
You can hear the 2008 soundtrack to The Wire, featuring music and dialogue from the show and four versions of the opening-credit song, Tom Waits’s “Way Down in the Hole,” here.