I Love The Wire

I can't stop watching Season 3. It's incredible. Barksdale's obsession with getting Marlo. Bell wanting out. Hamsterdam. Jesus, what a great show.

One of the most underexplored familial relationships in film/tv is brother-sister. You Can Count on Me is pretty exceptional for simply doing a good job of centerpiecing the relationship. If I were writing a critical studies paper on brother-sister relationships, I would use Avon and Brianna in the Wire as an example of how power dynamics work within families - how shame and underlying morality play a larger role in brother-sister dynamics than straight self-interest or mutual interest in friendships, absolute loyalty or betrayal in the brother-brother/sister-sister relationships, or unresolved issues of power, love, and mimicry which arise in parent-sibling relationships.