9 Major Reasons It's Never Too Late to Watch The Wire

Watching the series in 2016 is a pretty sobering reminder of how little the criminal justice and education systems have changed over the last few decades. The police brutality occasionally depicted throughout the five seasons certainly resonates with current social injustices and the subsequent Black Lives Matter movement. President Obama even sat down with the show's creator, David Simon, to discuss law enforcement and the prosecution of drug offenses.