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McNulty and Bunk Were the Best Partnership in TV History — Here's Why
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McNulty and Bunk Were the Best Partnership in TV History — Here's Why

Television loves a good duo. Holmes and Watson. Starsky and Hutch. Mulder and Scully. But McNulty and Bunk from The Wire operated on a different level entirely — because their partnership wasn't built on plot convenience.


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It was built on the kind of complicated, infuriating, unbreakable friendship that only makes sense if you've had one yourself.

Jimmy McNulty was chaos in a cheap suit. Brilliant, self-destructive, constitutionally incapable of letting anything go.

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