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The Wire Ending Explained: Jimmy McNulty's Fate & What It Really Means
The Wire’s series finale deliberately avoided closure, but its ambiguous ending made a larger point about American society. When the feature-length final episode of The Wire aired on HBO on March 9, 2008, it should’ve been a cultural event on par with the M*A*S*H finale. But The Wire never got its flowers; it consistently struggled in the ratings, and it was consistently snubbed at the Emmys.
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