The acclaimed David Simon-created show ran for five seasons and didn't receive so much as one award: 'The theory among HBO executives was it was an East Coast show and the Emmy voters were in L.A.'
Clarke Peters and Dominic West in a scene from 2008’s season five of 'The Wire.'
The acclaimed David Simon-created show ran for five seasons and didn't receive so much as one award:"The theory among HBO executives was it was an East Coast show and the Emmy voters were in L.A."didn't get much love from the Emmys. The David Simon-created HBO production ran for five seasons, from 2002 to 2008, and didn't receive so much as one award. And it got only two Emmy nominations, both for writing.as a main character never receiving an acting nom.
And that was just the cops. As for the criminals, they were "a group so brutal, they make Tony Soprano's clan look like the Waltons." 's plots usually revolved around police and drug dealing, but the show was as much about corrupt, stagnant bureaucracy as it was about crime. And politics is something that clearly gets under Simon's skin. In 2018, he was suspended from Twitter for wishing a Trump supporter would "die of a slow moving venereal rash that settles in your lying throat."This story first appeared in an August stand-alone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine,
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