Earlier this year Lisa and I were loaned Series One of The Wire. Christmas hadn’t long passed and we were a bit fed up of lounging around, so this meant that when we started to watch it, we weren’t really in the mood for television. I think we watched the first ten minutes of episode one and switched it off.
A month or two passed and we decided to give it another go. We watched the first episode again and that was it, we were hooked.
As I type this out we’re one episode away from completing all five series. Everything you’ve ever read about The Wire is true. Just go and watch it.
Anyway, last night, whilst watching the penultimate episode, I happened to properly look at the DVD case. We’ve previously been loaned each series as a single group of DVDs but this time we got the main box itself. Now it’d been obvious that the DVDs must have originated from China via eBay. We suspected that the discs were copies, but they’re bloody good copies. The thing that caught my attention though was the main image on the cover.
Here it is:
Do you see the problem? Sure, the image depicts some of the main characters in a sort of collage and then it’s super-imposed over a night scene of a large city. That city would appear to be Sydney, Australia; a fair few miles from Baltimore in the USA, where The Wire is set. Interesting!
I then read some of the blurb on the rest of the box. Can you make sense of this:
All I can say is, wow!
