An Academic Perspective on "The Wire's" Visual Style

Boston.com contributor and Harvard Teaching Fellow Joshua Rothman contributed a post about The Wire to the site's "Brainiac" blog. The post includes a rather long video essay from a Norwegian academic regarding the TV series' visual style. The essay offers a certain lumbering quality that is worth enduring for the strong, sharp points the Scandinavian post doc makes.

For those who believe Mad Men is the best show ever made for TV, I would argue -- strenuously argue -- on behalf of The Wire. While there's less tits and ass in The Wire than in the over-lauded Mad Men, there's a helluva lot more reality.