As you may have noticed, I have become totally obsessed with The Wire in recent months, as is apparently my duty as a journalist. Of course, really I should have become obsessed with it five years ago, but better late than never. Anyway, there are many magnificent things about the Greatest Programme Ever Made (no, really, it is! It is!). The political anger, the labyrinthine plots, the funniness (it's absolutely hilarious a lot of the time, something that I think often gets overlooked), the fact that it's often heartbreakingly sad (whenever anything bad happens to Bubbles, I find it incredibly distressing), the theme tune (my favourite is Season 4's hip-hop tinged version, brilliantly performed by some young Baltimore boys). And then there are the characters, probably the most complex characters ever to grace our television screens. But there's something else about many of these characters: they're kind of hot. Now, I'm not talking about personality in these cases - Mc Nulty and Stringer Bell are hardly dream dates - but there's something about them... Same for Kima, Bodie, and Avon - in fact, the only person who might be halfway normal to go out with is Carver. Am I alone in my many crushes on the Wire cast? I'm probably alone in fancying Bodie, whom I always thought was hilarious and a wonderful character (he always looks so exasperated by the whole drug dealing business, and I love his interactions with Herc and Carver) but actually started to become hotter as time went on (he's only three years younger than me, by the way, in case you thought this was some sort of unwholesome underage crush).

In fact, there's only one way to settle this: a poll. Now, I don't fancy all of these people, but I can see the appeal of all of them. What about you, fellow Wire obsessives viewers?



Hmmm, I think I need a Wire icon....