RICHARD PRICE (WRITER): My personal story with the series DVD is that my girls were young-side teenagers when I started writing The Wire. It wasn’t until after Season Three when the DVDs came out. All of a sudden, everybody can watch this maddeningly complex show. They can shoot up twelve episodes, and so the thing exploded. People discovered it on DVD because they could mainline it. All of a sudden, overnight, my girls are coming back from their schools, they’re saying, “Dad, did you know you’re really cool?” I say, “What?” At that point, I did three or four episodes of The Wire compared to—I
...more
