Wired and Rewired Podcast: A First Timer’s and Long Timer’s Rewatch of The Wire

Ellie and Chris cover one of the most difficult episodes of Season 1, The Cost. They discuss all the ways that the cost is now coming due, and they work through their feelings brought up by the dramatic climax of the episode.   Send feedback to our e-mail: wiredandrewired@gmail.com. You can follow us on all social media by searching for @wiredandrewired.

Ellie and Chris have some fun following games that the unit, the Barksdale Organization, and Omar play in Episode 9, Game Day. We also meet a new player in the game who might be the opposing king on the game's chess board. Send feedback to our e-mail: wiredandrewired@gmail.com. You can follow us on all social media by searching for @wiredandrewired.

Some characters get taken to school in Episode 8, Lessons, and Ellie and Chris cover all the ways they're forced to learn something new, usually the hard way.   Send feedback to our e-mail: wiredandrewired@gmail.com. You can follow us on all social media by searching for @wiredandrewired.

The wire produces its first arrest, and Prez and Daniels are forced to face the result of the unit's past actions. The arrest leads to the Barksdale Organization changing things up in the pit. Meanwhile, Omar takes revenge on the Barksdale organization by serving up Bird on a platter. Ellie and Chris cover all these details and more as they discuss Episode 7, One Arrest.   Send feedback to our e-m...

The game is afoot now that the unit has a wiretap up and running and an informant in the fold. Ellie and Chris discuss the eponymous Episode 6, The Wire, and cover how Wallace struggles to come to terms with his role in Brandon's murder, Omar's own reaction to seeing Brandon in the morgue, and Rawls and Daniels butting heads over the future of their respective cases. Send feedback to our e-mail: w...

There's nothing slow, nothing late about this episode. Ellie and Chris discuss Episode 5, The Pager, and follow the unit as they take their first big step in pursuing the Barksdale organization, and we see the first big move on the chess board by one king against the other. Send feedback to our e-mail: wiredandrewired@gmail.com. You can follow us on all social media by searching for @wiredandrewir...

Where DON'T you want to go? While you think about that, Ellie and Chris talk Episode 4, Old Cases, and dig into the backstories of some of the main players in The Wire. Oh, and if you're wondering: 39 times. That's how many times McNulty and Bunk mutter variations of a single word in one of the most famous scenes of the whole series (we counted).  Send feedback to our e-mail: wiredandrewired@gmail...

Hey Episode 3, how come you got all this wisdom and your life's so hard? Ellie and Chris ponder that question as we learn a valuable lesson about The Game from D'Angelo, follow the detail into the Pit for their first set of hand-to-hands courtesy of Bubbles, and meet a new opponent for the Barksdale organization.    Send feedback to our e-mail: wiredandrewired@gmail.com. You can follow us on all s...

Hey Episode 2, you the bomb. The plot thickens for Ellie and Chris as they follow the police who form a (mostly) functioning detail while D'Angelo gets used to both his new role in The Pit and his uncle's presence in his life.    Send feedback to our e-mail: wiredandrewired@gmail.com. You can follow us on all social media by searching for @wiredandrewired.

Ellie (the rookie) and Chris (the veteran) kick off the launch of the Wired and Rewired Podcast by talking about, naturally, the first episode of Season 1: The Target. Ellie provides the first-time viewers perspective, and Chris provides the perspective of someone who has watched every episode about 100 times.   Send feedback to our e-mail: wiredandrewired@gmail.com. You can follow us on all socia...