The 4th season of The Wire begins in less than 2 months, and my excitement just jumped up a notch after reading the preview in The Baltimore Sun a few days ago. It's common knowledge that the new season's focus is the public school system, but this is the first I've heard that they're bridging into the new topic by making disgraced ex-cop Pryzbylewski a schoolteacher. He started on the first season seeming like a completely unsympathetic fuck-up who was only still on the force because of nepotism. But by the end of the Season 5 when he finally lost his badge, he'd actually redeemed himself and done some real police work, so it's good to hear they found a way to keep the character in the show and continue his arc. Apparently David Simon is already campaigning to get Season 5 greenlighted, goddamn do I hope it does well enough this year for HBO to keep it going. I finally got completely caught up on the previous seasons a few months ago, and now I've started Netflixing them to help catch J.G. up and so that I can listen to the commentary tracks, which so far have been pretty illuminating.
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You should read David Simon's (non-fiction) "Homicide," there's an incredible chapter where he describes a summer heatwave and the accompanying violence, including a prison riot, to the soundtrack of "It Takes Two."