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Women and ‘The Wire’

by Sophie Jones

[25.Aug.08] :. Why the most intelligent show on TV, a compelling exploration of the circumstances and institutional pressures that make people who they are, gets an "F" in Gender Studies.

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The Wire: The Complete Fifth Season

by Chris Barsanti

[15.Aug.08] :. The dense mythology, painstakingly created over five novelistic seasons, has enough drama packed inside to be easily spun out for the next five, ten, 15 years.

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The Wire

by Jesse Hicks

[27.Jan.08] :. In David Simon's indictment of American capitalism, numbers -- say, crime stats and school test scores -- no longer have an epistemic value, they don't refer to any external reality.

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Homicide: Life on the Street: The Complete Season 5

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Oct.04] :. It frequently expanded cop-show boundaries, occasionally gave in to suits in search or ratings, and most often, surprised fans and detractors alike.

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Homicide Life on the Street: The Complete Season 4

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Jul.04] :. Unlike most TV fare, especially cop shows, Homicide concerns itself with details and asides that don't always come together into thematic wholes.

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Homicide: Life on the Street: The Complete Third Season

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Mar.04] :. Homicide's third season focuses increasingly on tensions among the detectives, as they endure increasingly personal devastations, over more linear storylines and more sensational murder mysteries.

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Homicide: Life on the Street: The Complete Seasons 1 & 2

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Mar.04] :. Homicide lays out an utterly compelling and occasionally oblique anti-cop-show premise.

 

S.W.A.T. (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Jan.04] :. S.W.A.T. knows what it is, namely, an expensive, hyper-actionated, CD-selling, multi-raced and multi-buddied flick.

 

S.W.A.T. (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Aug.03] :. S.W.A.T. knows what it is, namely, an expensive, hyper-actionated, cd-selling, multi-raced and multi-buddied flick.

 

Disappearing Acts (2000): Wesley Snipes, Sanaa Lathan, Clark Johnson, CCH Pounder

by Cynthia Fuchs

This plot comes to revolve around the couple's troubles with money -- it becomes an emblem and manifestation of Zora and Franklin's mutual and separate fears.

 

Disappearing Acts (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

This plot comes to revolve around the couple's troubles with money, it becomes an emblem and manifestation of Zora and Franklin's mutual and separate fears.

 
 
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