Noooo! Don't you dare kill off my favorite character, you stupid show!

Well, I figured out why the Wire is so male dominated - it's because the central or focal point of view is Jimmy McNulty - a bit of a cowboy cop, who doesn't quite know how to deal with women, and a mission to resolve a drug cartel case that has been littering his case file and his colleagues with uncleared homicide cases. McNulty is what I like to call a catalyste character - everything jumps off of him. With all these little unrelated, yet oddly related threads. It's a story-telling style that is rather interesting to me - because it's demonstrates how our lives are interlocking patterns with others lives, weaving a broader pattern, that from our perspective may seem random, but from a point of view of say someone watching from a far or looking at all the interlocking patterns - isn't random at all. Richard Price - wrote two novels that used this specific style - Clockers and Freedomland - I suggest you rent Clockers - Spike Lee made a film of it, and read Freedomland (there's a film of it too, but it's not as good as the book). Both works are social criticisms. Other tv shows that use this approach are Game of Thrones - with Ned Stark being the initial catalyst...and Friday Night Lights - Coach Taylor.

Also, after I whined about it being too male dominated...there was one great female centric scene in episode 10 - that blew me away. Detective Greggs story about how she nabbed her first perp.

( stupid show just shot my favorite character! )