Despite a superficial resemblance to '' Homicide : Life on the Streets , '' with which '' The Wire '' shares a Baltimore setting , this resolutely nonlinear cop show from the executive producer David Simon -LRB- a '' Homicide '' graduate -RRB- goes out of its way to deny the basic satisfactions of police drama .
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