the wire

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Is ‘The Wire’ Anti-Semitic?


I finally finished watching all five seasons of The Wire. It’s unquestionably a great show, but after the months I spent with it the series left me not wanting to discuss everything it does right, but one thing it does very wrong: Why, in a show so concerned with race and ethnicity, is the only identified Jewish character a stereotypical money-grubbing, scumbag lawyer?

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