New Jersey Star-Ledger staff writer Alan Sepinwall adds to the critical praise for The Wire, calling it "only the greatest drama in TV history." Just as important, he points out the show's unique ability to find humor in its serious subject matter, something that often goes unmentioned in all the accolades.
"Over the years, so much critical praise has been lavished on The Wire," he writes, "that the show too often sounds like homework. But the series has always been as much black comedy as bleak drama." Sepinwall even goes on to say that for some of the more outrageous moments in the David Simon-created series, "the closest comparison I can find for this season is Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove—if, that is, Kubrick cared even one-tenth as much about humanity as Simon and partner Ed Burns so obviously do."
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