>I mean, if you ask most cats about their favorite seasons of
>The Wire, more than a few will completely skip over season 2.
>And why is that? Because it's not focused as much on "life on
>the corner" as seasons 1, 3, and 4 were. Some people claim
>that's "more relatable," but I also believe there are a lot of
>folks who are watching just for the sex and violence in the
>hood.
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Yup. That definitely came across in any thread about the Wire that I've ever read.

>I also just think it's too simplistic to say "well, this show
>didn't have an audience solely because the white folks in the
>suburbs wanted soap opera escapist entertainment (like The
>Sopranos) and The Wire was too real and gritty to them"
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Co-signing this too. It's too easy to say that race was the main reason white folk didn't watch it, but fuck it, let's say that's true. Okay, now why didn't black people watch it? 30 million of us in the US and the show was averaging 1.5 million viewers. Now what?