DAVID SIMON (CREATOR): I think Ed will confess he didn’t want to do the second season. He was like, “We just built this universe. We can do more with it.” And I’m like, “Yeah, and we will. But if we stay tight on the Barksdales second season, then the show is only going to be about the drug thing, and it’s going to veer into that us-against-them soap opera of a cop show.” I said, “We have a chance to build a city.”
