DAVID SIMON (CREATOR): It was like the middle of America was hollowed out. The people who were watching the show were either in West Baltimore or North Philadelphia. They were in the places that the show was about, because they couldn’t believe there was a drama about their neighborhood. Or it was people who were like book people or whatever who had found it in a weird way, and that’s how it felt after two or three seasons. But, man, it took forever.
