To have a show that looks like us and feels like us and speaks in the same language as us, and you get to see both sides—you see [that] the cops aren’t always good guys and the bad guys aren’t necessarily quote-unquote bad guys. It was an amazing juxtaposition to always watch, and kept us on our toes just being able to see what was going on in the quote-unquote real life that The Wire was portraying.

