The Wire's Showrunner Just Revealed Which Character He Regrets — The Answer Shocked the Entire Fandom
2026/07/08
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The Wire's Showrunner Just Revealed Which Character He Regrets — The Answer Shocked the Entire Fandom
David Simon is not a man who apologizes for his work. The Wire's creator has spent two decades in public conversation about the show — defending its pace to impatient viewers, defending its politics to critics who wanted it to be more hopeful, defending its structural choices to an industry that kept asking why there was no clear protagonist.
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Which is why a recent interview in which Simon admitted a specific regret landed with the force it did.
The character in question is not one of the show's icons. It's a secondary figure from Season 5 — Scott Templeton, the fabricating journalist whose invented stories parallel McNulty's invented serial killer.
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