The End of The Wire

By Matthew Yglesias
The Washington Post takes a look at the final days of shooting on The Wire and reveals a little bit of irony: "For the past two years, a good chunk of "The Wire," the HBO show that critics have praised for the grittiness of its inner-city vérité, has been filmed in an anonymous soundstage in the burbs -- a soundstage that reportedly will be turned into a massive Wegmans Food Market."

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