Saying it's a show for teens is just.... wow. I don't think a teen would have the patience to watch a show that complex which takes a long time to build toward a conclusion, features realistic slang/terminology/methods as well as killing off main characters and ignoring typical gratifying television methods.
Everyone I know who likes it is 21 plus.
Also, uhhhh you know the writers were a police officer and a journalist who spent decades covering the crime within Baltimore and many of the storylines are based on actual events right? The show was praised universally for its realism. One of them also worked as teacher so he experienced working in lower socio economic schools first-hand.
Avon Barksdale is based on a real dealer from the 80s who is actually in the series. And some of the actors stayed in Baltimore and actually used parts of the show to teach at risk youth!!!
Also:
"In the years following the end of the series' run, several colleges and universities such as
Johns Hopkins,
Brown University, and
Harvard College have offered classes on
The Wire in disciplines ranging from law to
sociology to
film studies.
Phillips Academy, a boarding high school in Massachusetts, offers a similar course as well.
[90][91] University of Texas at San Antonio offers a course where the series is taught as a work of
literary fiction.
[92] In an article published in
The Washington Post, Anmol Chaddha and
William Julius Wilson explain why Harvard chose
The Wire as curriculum material for their course on urban inequality:
"Though scholars know that deindustrialization, crime and prison, and the education system are deeply intertwined, they must often give focused attention to just one subject in relative isolation, at the expense of others. With the freedom of artistic expression, The Wire can be more creative. It can weave together the range of forces that shape the lives of the urban poor."[93] University of York's Head of Sociology, Roger Burrows, said in The Independent that the show "makes a fantastic contribution to their understanding of contemporary urbanism", and is "a contrast to dry, dull, hugely expensive studies that people carry out on the same issues".
[94] The series is also studied as part of a Master seminar series at the
Paris West University Nanterre La Défense.
[95]"
ALSO: 'The Wire': Young Adults See Bits of Their Past
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/10/AR2006121001034.html"The show's mirror to real life has drawn a cult following, particularly among African American college students."I don't think it's overly focused around the noble savage concept at all. There's good and bad characters and even the characters you like do a lot of bad things.
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