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Reviews
The Wire (2002)
The crime drama re-defined
I've just finished a second viewing of season one of the wire, and I feel as though television has changed for me. The bar has been raised and all other cop shows are now irrelevant. This is a masterpiece worthy of the highest of praise. Each character is so clearly drawn, so free of cliché, the story line is so detailed, so relevant, the duologue is so crisp, so real that I felt as though I lived on a planet where Starsky and Hutch, Columbo, and Walker: Texas Ranger have never existed. The arc of the story feels like an opera of break beats and hardcore Basquiat. Never before has a story of elicit drug use, its dealers, its junkies, it profiteers, and the people who decide to care enough to make a change been so perfectly presented. Bravo!
Eyes on the Prize (1987)
Hope captured on film
In a world where black children search for pride on street corners, and find their idols in drugged out athletes, absent fathers, idiots and zombies, in these television hours lie little glimpses of hope, shining examples of the people who fought and died for love of the future. I make it a point to watch this program at least once a year and show it to anyone who seems to have even a passing interest in tomorrow. Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Fannie Lou Hamer, The black Panther Party, busing in Boston, political mobilization in Chicago, the fight for freedom has never been given such a detailed depiction. This film is an encyclopedia of black pride and should not only be seen, but should be seen as often as is necessary to restore freedom and democracy to this country.