That's why I never watched Homicide when I lived in Baltimore. The whole city was so gung-ho about accomodating the filming of Homicide. There was all this pride about what a hit show Homicide was. I was always like, hello? It's called Homicide. They'd be filming a murder scene on the street where my girlfriend lived, and it would be the street where, in real life, people had gotten raped, and where people went to F prostitutes in the bushes, and they're filming a fake murder there, and it's like "Well, doesn't this make me feel great that my city is the canvas for your televisual painting." The city gets money for all this filming but where does it go? I like The Wire but it depresses me a bit too. It doesn't help that I still live in a neighborhood in L.A. where there's a lot of drug dealing. These types of shows are usually more "enjoyable" when you're not surrounded by the shit, I find.
