American actor best known for playing Omar Little in the TV crime series The Wire The binge-watching revolution began in the late 1990s, when the combined advent of quality US television and DVD box sets made that viewing method not merely possible but irresistible. Among the violent, intelligent adult dramas from that period – including The Sopranos and Deadwood – it was the Baltimore-set crime series The Wire, broadcast on HBO between 2002 and 2008, that was the most innovative and highly regarded. Its creator, David Simon, conceived it as “Greek tragedy for the new millennium”. The novelist Nick Hornby likened the show’s democratic and colourful dramatis personae – drug kingpins and street-corner dealers, cops and politicians, hacks and teachers – to Dickens. Continue reading...
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