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S AT U R D AY, A U G U S T 2 6 , 2 0 0 6"The Wire" -- Now Is The Time To Start WatchingWith video on demand and Netflix and DVD boxed sets and so on,there's no reason to ever feel a TV show has passed you by. Case inpoint: "The Wire." To my everlasting shame, I didn't start watching"The Wire" when it first began on HBO. Then I missed the secondseason. Then the third season came out and I began to feel silly. Howmuch acclaim did I have to listen to before finally jumping on board?For a serialized show like "The Wire," this might have been impossiblein the past. The train had already left the station. But now I had seasonone and two on DVD (a bonus of my job) and at least I knew enough tokeep them at hand. Finally, I tackled them. These shows are slow tobuild, the plots are complex and it helps to have someone to discuss theshows with (heck, that's half the fun of TV -- talking with people aboutwhat happened this "week"). Some of the dialogue is mumbled so onDVD I've even backtracked and used the English language subtitles toclear up any confusion. (Hey, I'm street, but you can't be up on all thelatest slang.)Slowly the characters started to grow on me and by the fourth or fifthepisode I was having a lot of fun (it was clearly intelligent andwell-done from the start). By the eighth or ninth episodes I was deeplyinvolved. And at the end of the season I was primed to jump intoseason two. Remarkably, it was even better. Then I had to wait almost ayear for the already aired season three to come out on DVD. To mysurprise, the shown just got better and better. And now I've got the firstsix episodes of season four, a heart-breaker that focuses in part on theBaltimore school system -- all seen through the eyes of cops and thedrug dealers and criminals they're facing off against. I've only watchedthe first four episodes, but they are truly outstanding. No wonder theNY Post is claiming that this season of "The Wire" may be the bestsingle season of TV. Ever. In history. True hyperbole, until you've seenit.POSTED BY MICHAEL IN NEW YORK AT 12:49 AM

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