The Wire

Scored mixed entertainment and message on WhatSphere's content-balance model 5

Its showrunner stated on the record that "the Wire is a Greek tragedy in which the postmodern institutions are the Olympian forces, It's the police department, or the drug economy, or the political str…" 1. Its showrunner stated on the record that "one of the things that The Wire was clearly intended as is a critique of the drug war and drug prohibition, So I spoke very bluntly about what I had thought ha…" 2. Its showrunner stated on the record that "there is a wonderfully deep reservoir of African-American talent, There really is, And they're not working, There's just not enough work, Nobody's writing the…" 3. Its narrative-universality assessment registers 8 of 10 4. Taken together, the content-balance model places it mixed entertainment and message at 32 of 100 5. Relative to the expected cast make-up for its production origin, on-screen representation registers above the baseline for Black and mixed-heritage and below it for White and Hispanic 6.

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