In this episode, Bailey and Kelly discuss to concept of "palimpsest" in The Wire's Season 2, ep 5. 

Works cited:

https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/keywords/palimpsest/ 

https://books.google.ca/books?id=jmxFl-fbmlwC&pg=PR14&lpg=PR14&dq=palimpsest+literary+metaphor&source=bl&ots=47u3ElyM9S&sig=ACfU3U3sNMxcIcTkfsooCJO3XFFj1cHq2A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiE363g9uLkAhXFo54KHVryCZY4ChDoATACegQICBAB#v=onepage&q=palimpsest%20literary%20metaphor&f=false

https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199544486.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199544486-e-45

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying-and-rising_deity

In this special series, Bailey and Kelly discuss the fifth episode of each season. In this episode, we discuss Season 1, Episode 5, "The Pager," as relating to the theme of games, play, and childhood. 

We’ve compared The Wire to literature and to other television shows. Now let’s see how The Wire reflects or evolves conventions of theatre and drama. The Wire traces the evolution of the traditions of “Theatre of Cruelty” into “Theatre of the Absurd.” This is a useful way of thinking when we look at Season 5 as the bizarre outlier of the series.

References: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_Cruelty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Absurd 

https://www.theatrefolk.com/blog/life-meaningless-theatre-absurd/ 

Works cited:

Key elements of a “Dickensian” poverty:

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16184487

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/04/30/ditching-dickensian/

https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/faq/poor.html

https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/article/charles-dickens-and-crime

http://dickens.port.ac.uk/crime/

Key elements of a Marxist analysis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist_criminology

https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/sociology/crime-and-deviance/marxism-and-crime/

Marx's theory of alienation

http://dickens.port.ac.uk/crime/

https://andrewjenkin.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/to-what-extent-is-the-wire-a-marxist-television-drama/

In this episode, Kelly and Bailey review Foucault's theory of post-structuralism, and its relationship to discipline and punishment in The Wire. 

Reference text here: https://zulfahmed.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/disciplineandpunish.pdf

This episode was brought to us by a listener request, and we discuss how Marlo imapcts the storyline in The Wire.

In this episode, Bailey and Kelly discuss all the women as leads in The Wire and the role they play: virgin or whore? 

In this episode, we discuss how techonology made it so that The Wire was able to exist in one certain time. 

Was Season 5 of The Wire the worst? We discuss. 

In this episode, Kelly and Bailey discuss the theory of Pascal's Wager, and ask, which characters in The Wire choose to believe in something bigger than the systems they're in? Also, it takes Bailey a few minutes to catch on! 

Show resources from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager

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