Rewatching season four of The Wire, but looking particularly closely at the storylines of the black girls and black women. Though (I think) their roles are generally far too small, you can still clearly see how they are affected by the devastating overlap of racism and misogyny.

I think The Wire generally does a better job than The Sopranos in its portrayal of civilians: the latter often depicts them as comically lacking in courage, which seems to add to the myth of Mafia life. (But I think that's because The Sopranos is at some level a dark comedy.)

I keep thinking about how the presentation of black girls in The Wire is a problem, since their anger is presented with too little context. You see them explode but you don’t see enough of the reasons why: while with the boys, you get a front-row seat for the roots of their rage.

The Wire prioritises black male trauma over black female trauma. In that sense, it unwittingly predicted the US media coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement, which paid far more attention to black male voices and victims than female ones.