Okay, my Humax is still chopping the ends off, but The Wire season 2 is three episodes in on BBC-2 and it continues to amaze me. It truly is a wonderful piece of TV.
Episode 2 contains this gem of dialogue, again from State’s Attorney Rhonda Pearlman: “Last night you were too drunk to fuck. This morning too hungover. What’s the most useless thing on a woman? A drunken Irishman. Only you’re not really Irish, are you, McNulty?”. This is followed by an admission by our hero McNulty which proves that he is, after all, an asshole.
And many thanks to Stefanie for sending me this fascinating interview with Wire creator David Simon: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04172009/watch.html