Since some of you still haven't been sold on the Wire after my thoughtful explanation of its complex, multilayered win, I feel I may need to take a different tack.
Specifically, I may need to appeal to base jungle fever.
Meet Stringer Bell. Sadly, I can't find any shirtless pictures of him at the moment, but I'm sure there's at least one scene where he's half-naked. This show is very even-handed with its fanservice.
Meet Cedric Daniels, the man with the chest of steel.
He spends the first two seasons hiding that body under stiff business suits, but the truth comes out eventually.
Meet Omar. He is made of awesome.
I know it looks like he's having sexual favors performed on him, but he's actually in pain.
From this. He's being an angsty Jesus figure and trying to give himself cigarette burn stigmata after accidentally getting a member of his crew killed.
I love it when my favorite characters angst over their guilt. ♥_♥
lol sup random asshole white guy
Random asshole white guy is Jimmy McNulty. He's not a scumbag treasonous rapist politician, just an obnoxious manwhore cop. I love him anyway.