Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From the Sopranos And the Wire to Mad Men And Breaking Bad
“Once the writer got a head of steam behind him, recipients of a Simon missive could find themselves alternately bullied, cajoled, flattered, talked circles around, and on the floor laughing. Very often, they also found themselves convinced. But of all his substantial oeuvre, no memos could have been more important than the ones he wrote selling The Wire—with the possible exception of the one he’d later write to save it.
Certainly the history of popular art features few documents as baldly, ...eloquently ambitious as the show “bible” that Simon submitted to HBO in September 2000. The series, he wrote, would be, just as Hill Street Blues had once been, a Trojan horse—nominally a police procedural set amid the devastated landscape of postindustrial, drug-afflicted inner Baltimore, but in fact something very different. The Wire’s audience, he predicted confidently, having been seduced by the genre, would be left with a very different reward, not “the simple gratification of hearing handcuffs click. . . .”MoreLess
Certainly the history of popular art features few documents as baldly, ...eloquently ambitious as the show “bible” that Simon submitted to HBO in September 2000. The series, he wrote, would be, just as Hill Street Blues had once been, a Trojan horse—nominally a police procedural set amid the devastated landscape of postindustrial, drug-afflicted inner Baltimore, but in fact something very different. The Wire’s audience, he predicted confidently, having been seduced by the genre, would be left with a very different reward, not “the simple gratification of hearing handcuffs click. . . .”MoreLess
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