"The Wire" as a Victorian novel - great television as great literature

("Omar comin', yo!")

Two writers decided to turn the late great crime drama "The Wire" into a Victorian novel a la Charles Dickens complete with illustrations. I don't know who these two people are, but I want to hug them both and then beg them to actually finish and publish it. Their blog post about it is fantastically clever and hilarious, analyzing the series as if it were a piece of literature. It's a long, intelligent post about a show that deserves its critical praise as one of the best TV shows of all time. Discussing it as a novel and comparing it to other literary works just shows even more how smart and well written this show was.

The highlight of their post is the pages they post from their 'novel' that recounts the famous scene from the first season where McNulty and Bunk visit an old crime scene and try to act out the past events to figure out what happened. What's so special about that, you ask? The only lines they utter are various versions of 'fuck,' totaling to around 37 uses of the word. You won't see that on "CSI!" (But you will see it embedded below. [Warning: adult content]). If you don't get the point of the scene, just click on the video and read the youtube comments that explain where it came from.