The Wire: More Than Just a Show, It’s a Lesson in Resilience and Determination

When it hit HBO 20 years ago, The Wire was widely considered one of the best television shows (alongside “The Sopranos”).

Unlike its aforementioned contemporary, though, “The Wire” took the bird’s eye, sociological POV instead of the more individualistic, psychological POV of Tony Soprano (or later, Walter White on “Breaking Bad”). Showing how the drug trade in one American city affects that…